Volu m e II - Purdue University Calumet

Allison Krause was a nineteen-year-old freshman who was part of the protesting congregation on the
Commons and following her demise “small fragments of concrete and cinder block were found in the
pockets of her jacket” (U.S. President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, 1970, p. 275).
Jeffrey Glenn Miller was a twenty-year-old junior who was a protestor who had given the National
Guard the middle fingers when the Guardsmen ordered the congregation to break up, and he tossed a
canister of tear gas at the National Guard (U.S. President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, 1970).
William K. Schroeder was a nineteen-year-old-sophomore who was a cadet in the ROTC who was
present at the congregation but who probably did not harass the National Guard (U.S. President’s
Commission on Campus Unrest, 1970).
Figure 5. John Filo’s iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old
runaway, kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot dead by the Ohio National Guard (Filo
1970).
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