Kent State Massacre Southeast Michigan MENSA Events & Annual Gathering Announced

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Author Jenny Deason Copeland has announced a speaking engagement ahead of the launch of her book, Tiananmen West: Why Nixon Ordered the Kent State Massacre. The talk deals with research behind the conspiracy theories that surround the shooting of unarmed students on May 4, 1970.


New author talk has been announced by Jenny Deason Copeland, the author of the upcoming book, Tiananmen West: Why Nixon Ordered the Kent State Massacre, at MENSA Annual Gathering in San Diego. The talk will focus on her book, which documents the research done while investigating conspiracy theories surrounding the Kent State massacre in an effort to find motives and proof.


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The MENSA Annual Gathering starts in San Diego on June 29, 2016. The Tiananmen West talk is scheduled for July 1, 2016 at 10:30 AM PDT. This will be held at 500 Hotel Circle N, San Diego, CA.


This event will focus on the amount of research that has gone into the book across nearly three decades of work. This includes Freedom of Information Act requests in 1992 and 1994 that received unwelcome attention and threatened the lives of the author’s children.


The Kent State Massacre occurred on May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard. It’s reported that 67 shots were fired over a period of 13 seconds, resulting in four deaths and nine people being injured. Following on from the shooting, a large national response ensued, with four million students striking and hundreds of universities closing across America.


Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, announced by President Nixon on April 30. Others were not at the protest, and had been observing from a distance. A number of conspiracy theories surround the episode, with some believing the shooting was ordered and some suggesting the guardsmen themselves could have been shot at and were simply retaliating. Jenny Deason Copeland details Her theory that Nixon was in direct control of the event and the research she used to shed light on that theory in her book, which forms the backbone of the two author events.


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