#alan michael canfora

[garadinervi]

Kent State University, Kent, OH, May 4, 1970 / 2023

Allison Beth Krause (April 23, 1951 – May 4, 1970), student Jeffrey Glenn Miller (March 28, 1950 – May 4, 1970), student Sandra Lee Scheuer (August 11, 1949 – May 4, 1970), student William Knox Schroeder (July 20, 1950 – May 4, 1970), student

Nine students wounded: Alan Michael Canfora, John R. Cleary, Thomas Mark Grace, Dean R. Kahler, Joseph Lewis Jr., Donald Scott Mackenzie, James Dennis Russell, Robert Follis Stamps, Douglas Alan Wrentmore

(Bibl.: The Truth About Kent State. A Challenge to the American Conscience, by Peter Davies and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1973. Plus: The Kent State Shootings. An Annotated Bibliography, by William A. Gordon)

[multipleservicelisting]

Alan Canfora, Who Carried Wounds From Kent State, Dies at 71

A forensic analysis of the audio file commissioned by The Plain Dealer of Cleveland confirmed that a voice on the recording was that of someone commanding the National Guard, “Fire!” The newspaper said such an order refuted the suggestion that the Guard had started shooting at the students, most of whom were hundreds of feet away, out of panic.

Using the audio file and other corroborating evidence, Mr. Canfora hoped to persuade the Justice Department to open an investigation. But the department declined, saying the audio was inconclusive.

Mr. Canfora’s zeal sometimes rubbed people the wrong way.

“His passion resulted in a backlash from Guard apologists and callous dismissals from many in local media, who advised him to ‘get a life,’” Mr. Backderf, said in his Facebook post.

But he would not “move on,” Mr. Backderf added, “until the truth was known.”

Alan Michael Canfora was born on Feb. 13, 1949, in Barberton, in northeast Ohio. His mother, Anna (Minarik) Canfora, was a homemaker, raising four children. His father, Albert John Canfora, was an aerospace worker at Goodyear Aircraft. He was also a shop steward and organizer with the United Auto Workers and a longtime Barberton city councilman — an inspiration, Ms. Canfora said, for her brother’s civic engagement.

Alan earned his bachelor’s degree in general studies in 1972 and his master’s in library science, also at Kent State, in 1980.

He met Anastasia Mamedova at a meeting of the May 4 Task Force in 2009, and they married in 2010.

In addition to his wife and his sister, his mother survives him, as do his daughter, Maya; his son, Lev; and his brothers, Albert Jr. and Mark. His father died in 2018.

Many of the nine who were wounded at Kent State formed lifelong friendships over the subsequent decades. By the 50th anniversary, two of them had died.

    Multiple Service Listing for Business Owners | Tools to Grow Your Local Business

www.MultipleServiceListing.com 

The post Alan Canfora, Who Carried Wounds From Kent State, Dies at 71 appeared first on Multiple Service Listing.

from Multiple Service Listing https://ift.tt/38PLzsS

[portlandiajames]

#kentstatemassacre #may4th1970 #4deadinohio #vietnamwar 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Remembering the Kent State May 4th, 1970 Massacre🔥 Forty-nine years ago on the campus of Kent State University, my Alma mater, Ohio National Guardsmen unleashed a volley of rounds into a crowd of unarmed college students during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others. Killed by National Guard Troops: Jeffrey Glenn Miller; age 20 Allison B. Krause; age 19 William Knox Schroeder; age 19 Sandra Lee Scheuer; age 20 Wounded: Joseph Lewis, Jr. John R. Cleary Thomas Mark Grace Alan Michael Canfora Dean R. Kahler, permanently paralyzed from the chest down Douglas Alan Wrentmore James Dennis Robert Follis Stamps Donald Scott MacKenzie (at Kent State University) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxC8q_ugCtn/?igshid=8hcfjthq3os0