Activist Alan Canfora confronts guardsmen minutes before they turned at the top of Blanket Hill and fired. Photographer John Filo later told Canfora on Good Morning America that he thought this was his best picture until he captured the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Ann Vecchio series.
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They were nine men at different points in their lives. In one day, everything changed.
By Erin Kosnac
and Melissa Hostetler
Many Americans can tell you where they were on May 4, 1970, when they heard that four students were killed, just like they can tell you where they were when President Kennedy was shot. For most though, May 4, 1970, is only a passing memory, something to think about and reflect on every spring. But for nine men it is much more.
In May 1970, these young men were at various places in their college careers. Some were close to graduating. Others were just beginning.
Each has his own story of how he came to be at the rally and where his life has gone since the day the Ohio National Guard fired.
These are their stories and their lives 30 years later.
 
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