Music Video: OH, Jeff (4 May 1970)

 

When I lived in Kent, Ohio USA initially, I wasn't much interested in the May 4th tragedy where the Ohio National Guard killed a bunch of anti-war protestors, but over the years I gradually took an interest in the subject and read several books about it.  I even had shooting survivor Alan Canfora visit my classes a couple of times to talk about the incident.  I would say the best book (though likely not the most historically accurate, though it seems to get the crazy spirit of the time the most) is Kent State:  What Happened And Why by James Michener, which weirdly seems to be out of print now.  In any case, of all the victims, I felt the most affinity for Jeff Miller because he was a fellow rock and roller.  This song was written probably a quarter-century ago now, so it's astounding to realize that the song's subject would be an old man if he had lived, so I made the video a meditative set of visuals around the retirement that Jeff never got to have.

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