The Girl in the Kent State Photo

It's a story about the life course of Mary Ann Vecchio, the woman in the most famous photo from the day in 1970 when the National Guard killed four students at Kent State:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

I've known the photo for decades, but I did not know the woman in front of the body was only 14, and I knew nothing of her life before or after the shootings. The photo was always a frozen moment for me.

Neil Young's song Ohio (with the famous refrain four dead in Ohio) is about that day.

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