The Kent State Shootings, 35 Years Later
On the 47th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, NPR has this excerpt of 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings, former Chicago Tribune reporter Philip Caputo’s 2005 book about covering the massacre, in which members of the Ohio National Guard shot and killed unarmed students who were protesting the Vietnam War.
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NPR
Published: May 4, 2017
Length: 32 minutes (8,009 words)
The Fall of Mexico
In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered.
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The Atlantic
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,505 words)