By Alan Irwin, Brian Wynne
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And Kent State itself consisted of many of these people’s children, the first ones in their family to actually make it to college. At the time, there was a lot of generational hatred. I heard remarks that the kids had it coming. People used to drive through the town and point to the students. There was a tremendous amount of fear and anger because the students had stepped over a boundary, like a woman who refuses to speak in a soft voice and keep her legs crossed. . I guess that’s why I started the Kent Oral History project and got into writing plays.