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  • When Truth Mattered

  • The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later
  • By: Robert Giles
  • Narrated by: Thom Paulson
  • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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When Truth Mattered

By: Robert Giles
Narrated by: Thom Paulson
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When Truth Mattered is a gripping, authoritative account of a young editor and his staff painstakingly pursuing the truth of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 - a tragedy that has haunted the nation for 50 years and significantly changed the debate about the Vietnam War.

The editor, Robert Giles, takes you inside the turmoil and drama of the Akron Beacon Journal newsroom on that fateful day, and on campus at Kent State University, a Midwestern college under siege. The heart-pounding story captures the flash of National Guard rifles, the bloody aftermath of four students killed and nine wounded, and the stress of reporters hurrying to sort fact from fiction for a horrified world wanting to know “what” and “why”.

The Beacon Journal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage created a truthful narrative that has stood unchallenged and unchanged for five decades. It also provides an urgent lesson for today: What is the role of truth in media? Can you trust the news that you’re hearing and seeing? If not, how do you equip yourself? When Truth Mattered shows how journalism was done right...and how those standards must still be applied today.

©2020 Robert Giles (P)2021 Robert Giles
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