Wikipedia has this on the SDS:
"The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a student activist movement in the United States founded in 1959. As part of the New Left movement in the United States, the organization developed rapidly in the mid-1960s, before dissolving for decades in 1969 until its revival in 2003."
Which implies they didn't get involved in Kent State.
Anyone know more?
Bill Bennett was actually very very close to joining SDS in the 60's. But his brother persuaded him not too. As an aside, Bill Bennett once dated Janis Joplin.
And everyone knows, Wikipedia is the most accurate source of info out there....sorry for the sarcasm, but the SDS was still going strong well into the 1970s.
They were there. They also spent time trying to recruit high school students in the area. My father was a H.S. teacher and kept tabs on them before most Americans knew they existed.
Some of my friends had older siblings at KSU that were active in SDS. To this day some of them STILL travel to KSU on the anniversary to commemorate that day. Old commie hippies reliving their glory days.