Fire In The Heartland is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation's most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. Through the weekend of May 1 through May 4 and the entire month of May, it will be shown on public broadcasting stations around the country.

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FIRE IN THE HEARTLAND: The Kent State Story is the story of a generation of students at Kent State University, who stood up in the 1960s and 1970s against racism, tyranny, violence, and war and paid for it with their lives.

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FIRE IN THE HEARTLAND, The Kent State Story is the story of a generation of students at Kent State University, who stood up in the 1960s and 1970s against racism, tyranny, violence, and war and paid for it with their lives.

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For Tom Grace, the events of May 4, 1970 have been a major part of his life- ever since he was wounded when the National Guard opened fire on anti-war protestors and killed four at Kent State University in Ohio.

But this year, with the racial justice movement again front-and-center, he says the events resonate even more than they otherwise would, in a 50 th anniversary year.

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FIRE IN THE HEARTLAND: The Kent State Story is the story of a generation of students at Kent State University, who stood up in the 1960s and 1970s against racism, tyranny, violence, and war and paid for it with their lives.

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FIRE IN THE HEARTLAND: THE KENT STATE STORY is the story of a generation of students at Kent State University, who stood up in the 1960s and 1970s against racism, tyranny, violence, and war and paid for it with their lives.

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Four decades ago, on May 4, 1970, four students were killed at Kent State University when National Guardsmen opened fire on hundreds of unarmed students at an on-campus antiwar rally. The killings received national media attention and are still remembered forty years later across the country. But the media has largely forgotten what happened just ten days after the Kent State shootings.

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Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation's most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. On May 4th, 1970, thirteen of these young Americans were shot down by the National Guard in a shocking act of violence against unarmed students.

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On May 4, 1970, Thomas Grace was attending classes at Kent State University. Anti-war protests were scheduled to continue on the campus for the fourth day in response to the United States’ invasion of Cambodia.

Grace was asked not to attend by his then-girlfriend, whose brother had died in Vietnam. Grace wasn’t going to go to the protests that afternoon until someone in his class stood up and encouraged everyone to attend. Grace had been active in the anti-war movement up to this point, so why should he back off now?

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On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of unarmed student protestors at Kent State University, but the story is much larger. “Fire in the Heartland,” a documentary by Daniel Miller, a professor, filmmaker and May 4 witness, is the story of Kent State students who stood up against racism and the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s and the escalation to the deadly shootings on May 4. The film will be shown on Friday at Kent Stage.

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