Name/Title
40000 Plus 4, Ballad of the Kent State Massacre, Recording by Ruth WarrickEntry/Object ID
AM2005.12.168Scope and Content
40000 Plus 4, Ballad of the Kent State Massacre, Recording by Ruth Warrick. 45rpm record with same recording on side 1 and side 2. 15 copies, each in paper dust cover, all together in cardboard sleeve.
In 1971 Ruth Warrick published a single with the song, really a recitation, 41,000 Plus 4 The Ballad of the Kent State Massacre as an hommage to Sandra Lee Scheuer, William Knox Schroeder, Jeffrey Glenn Miller and Allison Beth Krause, the four students killed at Kent State University during a demonstration against the Vietnam war by National Guardsmen sent to quell the protest.
40,000 was the number of servicemen who had been killed in the war up to that time.
Record is copyrighted: Ruth Warrick Enterprises.Collection
Ruth Warrick CollectionLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Record, PhonographNomenclature Sub-Class
Sound Communication MediaNomenclature Class
Sound Communication T&ENomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for CommunicationSearch Terms
St. Joseph Actors, Warrick, Ruth, Vietnam War, Kent State UniversityRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Warrick, Ruth
