#1367 - William J. Shkurti

William J. Shkurti is a retired adjunct professor of public policy at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. He served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971, including tours of duty in Vietnam, West Germany, and the continental United States. Bill is the author of "Ohio State University Student Life in the 1960s" which examines the Kent State Shooting in which four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. Using contemporary news stories, long overlooked archival materials, and first-person interviews, The Ohio State University in the Sixties explores how these tensions built up over years, why they converged when they did and how they forever changed the university.