Allison Krause
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| Born | Allison B. Krause April 23, 1951 |
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| Died | May 4, 1970 (aged 19) Kent, Ohio, U.S. |
Allison B. Krause (April 23, 1951 - May 4, 1970) was an honors student at Kent State University, Ohio, when she was shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus. Her father had been a Holocaust survivor from Germany. The Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 106 meters (345 ft). Krause was shot in the left side of her body at about 105 meters (330 ft) fatally wounding her.[1] A subsequent autopsy found that a single rifle bullet entered and exited her upper left arm, and entered her left lateral chest fragmenting on impact causing massive internal injuries. She died from her injuries later that same day.
Altogether, sixty-seven shots were fired by the Guardsmen in 13 seconds.[2] The other students killed in the shootings were Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder. In addition, nine other students were wounded in the gunfire.
The shootings led to protests and a national student strike, causing hundreds of campuses to close because of both violent and non-violent demonstrations. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks. Five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C. against the war.
She was an alumna of John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. There is a courtyard memorial dedicated to her there. Her father, Arthur Krause, who had emigrated from Nazi Germany, became an outspoken advocate for the press for truth and justice about what occurred that day. He would long be remembered for his impassioned comments to the press the day after Allison's death.
[edit] Films
- Allison (dir. Richard Myers, 1971)
[edit] References
- ^ Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley. "The May 4 Shootings at Kent University: The Search for Historical Accuracy". Kent State University Department of Sociology. http://dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/lewihen.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
- ^ Eszterhas, Joe; Michael D. Roberts (1970). Thirteen seconds; confrontation at Kent State. New York: Dodd, Mead. OCLC 108956.
- Krause, Arthur S. (1972). "May 4, 1970." The New York Times, May 4, 1972.
- Krause, Arthur S. (1978). "A Memo to Mr. Nixon." The New York Times, May 7, 1978.
[edit] External links
- Poem about Allison Krause
- Poem dedicated to Allison Krause: Yevtushenko, Yevgeny (May 2002). "Bullets and Flowers" (translated by Anthony Kahn). The Kudzu Monthly. http://www.kudzumonthly.com/kudzu/may02/Bullets.html. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
- Allison Krause at Find a Grave
