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kent state:a requiem
(2000)

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Tracy Schuler as Allsion Krause in Kent State: A Requiem (2000)

ALLISON:

I saw a lilac in the barrel of his gun. His officer saw it and ordered him to remove the flower. I picked it up. The officer turned and walked away. so I yelled at him, "What's the matter with peace? Flowers are better than bullets!"

MS. SCHROEDER:

I find that my mind has drawn curtain over the tragedy...At least I have these pictures. Here is Bill and his sister Nancy. Here is Bill playing basketball at Lorain High...He was a very good athlete...

Mary Ellen Cleary as Mrs. Schroeder in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

Katie Libeco and Lynn Kirkwood as Narrators in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

NARRATOR 1:
By Sunday evening, the mood had intensified...
NARRATOR 2:
The crowd was dispersed with teargas, but many reassembled at one of the University gates which border the town.
NARRATOR 1:
The students were told that Kent State President  White and Kent Mayor Satrom would talk to them about the Guard..
NARRATOR 2:
(They never came and a skirmish ensued.) The skirmish ended with several students being stabbed by the Guard...By midnight the ca

Mike Mraz as Jeffrey Miller, Seamus as Guard 1 and Frank Martin as Guard 2 in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

GUARD:
M-1's and loaded...One of these bullets can travel two miles and pass through six bodies on the way.
JEFF:
Hey, this isn't a battleground. You guys aren't here by invitation. Why don't you get the hell off our campus!

JEFF:

1-2-3-4 We don't want your fucking war! 5-6-7-8 We don't want your fascist state.
Pigs off Campus!

MikeMraz as Jeff Miller in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

JEFF:
Sandy, you amaze me...You are like some of the guys...it's easy to talk with you....People started  releasing their frustrations with midterms. Cambodia.
SANDY:
My parents fled Germany so that we could live in a country with freedom. I was wearing this red blouse on May 4...My mother still thinks that someone took aim at the shirt

Denise Glinatsis and Mike Mraz as Sandy Scheuer and Jeff Miller in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

Joseph Bukovinsky as Bill Schroeder in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

BILL:
I know, I am in ROTC, but that doesn't mean I am pro war --- I am sure not a flower child, I think my ROTC decision might not be a wise move now. I really can't understand our involvement in Vietnam, but then, I need the money the scholarship provides and besides.. It would hurt my mother if I dropped out of ROTC...she is really patriotic...

ALLISON & JEFF:
We won, the pigs lost...look, they're retreating.
SANDY:
God, the troops are pointing at me...why are they aiming at me?!
BILL:
Suddenly some of the troops have spun around...they're firing...

Mike Mraz, Joseph Bukovinsky, Tracy Schuler and Denise Glinatsis in their roles as the four murdered Kent Students in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

Tracy Schuler as Allsion Krause in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

ALLISON:
I loved Barry and we lived together with my cat Yosarrian. Dad didn't understand...It was like a difference between the generations...

I just don't hide my feelings about anything...I marched in the Moratorium at Kent...But what what good did it do...Nixon is a fascist who didn't listen to the people.

OHIO
(written by Neil Young)
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Kelley Lepsik as Mary Vecchio and Cher Halas as Mrs. Schroeder in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

Kelley Lepsik as Mary Vecchio in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.

What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Kelley Lepsik as Mary Vecchio, Tray Schuler as Allison Krause and Mike Mraz as Jeff Miller in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)

Greg Payne, Original Producer and Author of Kent State:A Requiem at the year 2000 production

DR. J. GREGORY PAYNE
Author and original director and producer.

"I think the key is that Kent State:A Requiem is not a reflection of the past but a reminder of the future"

Curtain Call in Kent State:A Requiem (2000)
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