<Li> Gael Baudino's Dragonsword trilogy (1988--1992) follows the story of a teaching assistant who narrowly missed being shot in the massacre . Frequent references are made to how the experience and its aftermath still traumatize the protagonist decades later, when she is a soldier . </Li> <Li> Jerry Fishman's How Nixon Taught America to do The Kent State Mambo (2010) is a fantasy novella about the tragedy . </Li> <Li> Stephen King's post-apocalyptic novel The Stand includes a scene in Book I in which Kent State campus police officers witness U.S. soldiers shooting students protesting the government cover - up of the military origins of the Superflu that is devastating the country . </Li> <P> The best - known popular culture response to the deaths at Kent State was the protest song "Ohio", written by Neil Young for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young . They promptly recorded the song, and preview discs (acetates) were rushed to major radio stations, although the group already had a hit song, "Teach Your Children", on the charts at the time . Within two and a half weeks of the Kent State shootings, "Ohio" was receiving national airplay . Crosby, Stills, and Nash visited the Kent State campus for the first time on May 4, 1997, where they performed the song for the May 4 Task Force's 27th annual commemoration . </P>

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