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Growing Up in the 1960's and '70's

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From JFK and LBJ to Nixon and from Kent State to Watergate  

Presented by local Steven Sharoff, who remembers Kent State because he was there. Steven Sharoff grew up in Monticello and was a child of the ‘60s.  He witnessed the Kent State shootings of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard at a mass protest against the U.S. bombing of Cambodia in May 1970. A college professor in American History, Steve will discuss his personal experiences in those turbulent times.