Kent State survivor Robby Stamps, 58
Posted: Monday, June 16th, 2008 7:42 pmRobert “Robby” Stamps, one of 13 students shot by Ohio National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest May 4, 1970, at Kent State University, has died of complications from pneumonia.
Mr. Stamps, 58, died Wednesday in Tallahassee, Fla. A private funeral is scheduled for Monday at a friend’s house. A memorial service is planned in San Diego. …
The residue of May 4 remained with him. And he often reflected on it.
“The guardsmen who killed four students and wounded nine others have neither told the truth nor been held accountable for their actions,” he wrote in a guest editorial for the Akron Beacon Journal in March 1996. …
He was in the wrong place at the wrong time when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on the crowd at an anti-war rally at Kent State.
“Instinctively, I turned around and started to run away,” he told the magazine. “I took about three or four steps, and that’s when it got me in the back.”
Mr. Stamps recalled sitting in the front seat of the ambulance for the ride to Robinson Memorial Hospital in nearby Ravenna. Behind him were Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, both of whom died from their wounds. … Read full obituary
