A) a new 2008-2009 Hollywood feature film linking Vietnam & Kent State, partly based upon the soon-published memoir by Alan Canfora, is now on the horizon;

B) a new 2008-2009 international TV program will prove Alan Canfora was correct in 2007 when he revealed audio-recorded proof of the May 4, 1970, verbal ORDER TO FIRE at Kent State University. The militaristic, shouting voice on the recording will be analyzed for positive identification;

C) new investigations of additional hidden Kent State 1970 evidence are coming in Washington and Ohio. We also seek a government-recognized Truth Commission.

D) the cover-up of intentional murder at Kent State is now destroyed and will be more fully revealed in days, weeks and months ahead.

Stay tuned here at alancanfora.com and at the educational web site of KENT MAY 4 CENTER: http://may4.org/

Click here for Alan's earlier site with PHOTOS

ATTENTION LITERARY AGENTS, BOOK PUBLISHERS AND READERS:

Alan Canfora's memoir book is available for publication.

Below is Canfora's book description followed by an outline of chapters.

BOOK SUMMARY: Alan Canfora's memoir book focuses upon eyewitness descriptions of war in Vietnam as well as Kent State University student anti-war action during years leading to infamous tragedy on May 4, 1970.

Canfora offers his personal anti-war evolution along with true war stories of his hometown friends who suffered and survived the controversial Vietnam war. When one of Canfora's friends was killed in Vietnam in April of 1970, that lone soldier's death inspired Canfora's own Kent State anti-war actions culminating in the Kent State massacre on May 4, 1970. Canfora, a leading anti-war protester, was shot and wounded when Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of unarmed anti-war demonstrators killing four students.

“RIGHT HERE, GET SET, POINT, FIRE!” – exact words of the recently-discovered Ohio National Guard verbal command to shoot unarmed Kent State students on May 4, 1970. Seconds before the massacre, which ONG officer shouted this order? General Robert Canterbury? Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fassinger? Major Harry Jones? COVER-UP ENDED May 1, 2007!

Click here for EXCLUSIVE April 30, 2007, Alan Canfora preview announcement of proof of 1970 ORDER TO FIRE by KBOO radio in Portland, Oregon -- audio file (Windows Media)

* MEDIA INQUIRIES: phone Alan Canfora at 330-745-1097 *

AOL NEWS audio, video and poll results 52% support new 2007 investigation

Yahoo ABC-TV news video Alan Canfora, May 1, 2007

REMEMBER ROBBY STAMPS:
born June 24, 1950 – died June 11, 2008
*May 4, 1970, gunshot casualty, longstanding supporter of our May 4 Movement for truth and justice…

MEMORIAL TRIBUTE by Alan Canfora, Director, Kent May 4 Center, Kent, Ohio:

My blood-brother, Robert A. “Robby” Stamps, died in Tallahassee, Florida, on Wednesday evening, June 11, 2008, at 8:35pm. Bedridden, after suffering years of declining health due to complications of Lyme Disease, Robby died of pneumonia because his immune system was weakened so severely.

PHOTOS: 9 wounded KSU casualties, May 4, 1970:
http://may4.org/7.html

Here are details of the life and experience of Robby Stamps: On May 4, 1970, Robby was shot in his “hip” nearly 500 feet away from the Ohio National Guard shooters who were commanded to shoot 67 gunshots into our crowd of unarmed students. An M1 rifle bullet missed his spinal chord by millimeters or Robby would have been paralyzed for life exactly like Dean Kahler.

Submitted by Alan Canfora on Sat, 2008-04-05 21:19.
May 3-4, 2008: JOIN US in Kent
38th annual Commemoration -- all events free and open to public -- sponsored by May 4 Task Force students at KSU: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

May 3: 7pm, Kiva Auditorium of the KSU Student Center, RON KOVIC will introduce his film, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. Kovic will also answer audience questions after the film. A brief poetry reading session will occur to start the program.

May 3: 11pm-midnight: Annual candlelight march across the KSU campus. March culminates at Prentice Hall Parking Lot where our martyrs died in 1970. All-night vigil from midnight to noon. Contact May 4 Task Force students to sign-up for your 30-minute vigil reservation: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

May 4: 11am-noon: pre-Commemoration music by Tropidelic Band.
May 4: Noon-2pm: 38th annual commemoration event sponsored by the dedicated KSU students of the May 4 Task Force.

MAY 4 TASK FORCE
"Truth: The First Casualty of War"

May 2 - 4, 2007
Kent State University

NOTE: Mary Ann Vecchio will be the guest of the Kent May 4 Center in Kent, Ohio, during May 1-5, 2007. She will offer a comment on May 4 at the noon commemoration.

May 2: 3:45-5 p.m. Guided Campus Tours with Thomas Hensley and May 4th State Historical Marker Commemoration, Kiva, KSU Student Center.

INVITATION: Our dear friend, my blood-brother, Dr. Tom Grace, our esteemed comrade and historian, will deliver an oration upon the dedication of the Ohio state historical marker at the Kent State University campus on the afternoon of May 2, 2007. You are invited! Join us.

The National History Day program "helps students learn about historical issues, ideas, people, and events." The Kent May 4 Center recently received a large number of emails from students in response to National History Day. A sample of these emails follows:

More info on National History Day

February 20, 2007:

Hello my name is Jodie and right now I’m in 11 grade at Whitney High School in CA.

Alan Canfora, Kent State University
May 4, 1970

Here's my brief description of my actions and observations on May 4, 1970. This is a capsule description of moments of terror etched into my memory forever.

In the months of 2007 ahead, I will offer a much more detailed memoir here at my web site. My online memoir will be the very first book offered by an eyewitness participant in the historic 1970 Kent State student rebellion.

More details here soon including an outline of my chapters. Stay tuned...

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May 4, 1970 -- prelude to tragedy -- my brief description:

My frightened girlfriend stayed in my apartment after I prepared two black protest flags. I purposefully chose black material to match my dark mood of despair and anger following the recent death of my friend Bill Caldwell in Vietnam. Four hundred Ohio national guardsmen (ONG) were in the city of Kent and 800 were on the campus. Leaving my apartment, I walked past many of these soldiers, went several blocks east to the Kent State campus, and joined my friends on the KSU Commons at noon. About 1,000 students had joined the protest rally, but classes were being held on campus as usual.

Beware of California tourist-guide author William A. Gordon.

Beware of his misleading books about Kent State 1970: FOUR DEAD IN OHIO and also THE FOURTH OF MAY. Both are the same bogus 1981 book sold with two titles in 1990 and 1995.

Beware of his repeated attacks against Alan Canfora, Kent May 4 Center (KM4C), May 4 Task Force (M4TF) students, KSU professors and many others.

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William A. Gordon's Kent State vendetta: 1984-2007

During 37 years of our ongoing May 4 Movement for truth and justice at Kent State in Kent, Ohio, one peculiar individual has maintained a perpetual vendetta against Alan Canfora, Kent May 4 Center, May 4 Task Force, Kent State University, KSU Professor Jerry M. Lewis, the late KSU Professor Glenn Frank and others too numerous to mention here.

William A. Gordon, aka Bill Gordon, was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, and attended Akron University as a freshman when the students were killed at Kent State in 1970. Bill Gordon transferred to KSU, curried favor with KSU student government leaders and, for a brief time, played a small role in the early KSU movement seeking truth and justice until he graduated KSU in 1973.