Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Ohio" (1970)

[tao694t]

wow - one of the most powerful YouTube videos I've seen.. . thank you

[panhead58ful]

I remember the day I read the headline, '4 Kent State students killed by troups' ,,, it changed everything

[Marleyites]

"Out of the darkness must come the light." ~ Bob Marley

[munchie944]

kids who can't afford school these days are still being killed not for protesting a war but for participating in an illegal one...sad....

[spacepatrolman]

@munchie944 yea and instead of playing guitar like the Beatles on ed sullivan being a fad killing students in a columbine mess is a fad

[badcrosbys]

We should have started a civil war over it and attacked the National Guard with weapons..Still should...

[horsedood13]

NEVER FORGET! JUST SAY NO to BIG BROTHER!

[IslandSilverWolf]

Here we are 42 years later. This song rocked my soul back then, when I was just 22 and fresh out of the USMC, and it still rocks my soul today. Thanks, Neil. Way to wrap a passionate plea for justice within an unforgettable melody. Good job.

[1ConsciousDreamer]

Gosh you are taking us back here.

I remember all of this, immortilized by this memorable song.

[OneMoreSchlup]

FOUR DEAD IN OH HI OH

[yukonmike100]

it was and still is a real tragedy that 4 students died. It should never have happened, but the bottom line is this, colleges and universities are for going to class, learning and get a degree with the occasional night at the local watering hole, not to protest etc. the responsibility for the innocent who died lies with the protesters as much as the national guard. i hope the protesters who are still alive (and havent died of a drug overdose) realize this.

[jdavis8677]

History will repeat itself!

[belleobscurytee]

@jdavis8677 Obama is working on it

[icarosilva16]

Your images fits wonderfully with the song and the atmosphere that those youngs were feeling,i suppose,great video !!Maybe the best song of C.S.N&Y..

[TheBillyGtube]

How can we forget the one shocking photo that appeared on ever front page right across the country.

[MrJohnhkillian]

If you don't want a police state, vote RON PAUL

[MrRobin14669]

Crosby cried right after the song was recorded.

[gschachterle]

It has been said, when they come for your freedom they will be wrapped in a flag carrying a bible

[andycjp]

@gschachterle Or with an contraceptive mandate. Or with unfree 'pending approval' speech on You Tube.

[giuliana2610]

great Neil! We miss a lot this kind of songs because world is worste than ever...

[TakeBackAmerica2012]

If they had just let JFK live, all this could have been avoided. He was planning a full withdrawal after being elected to a second term as President. Nixon and co knew it and decided to take matters in their own hands. Then they killed RFK because he would have ended the war for sure. This is the result. In a book written before he died Sec of Defense Robert McNamara admitted the Gulf of Tonkin incident NEVER HAPPENED. A ten year long war based on a lie. sound familiar???

[DoctorChibi740]

Why aren't people writing awesome songs like this for the 99%?

[TrainingStream]

The National Defence Athorization Act was signed in to Law dec 31, 2011, it is now legal for the U.S Military to detain American citizens indefinitely. in·def·i·nite·ly 1.For an unlimited or unspecified period of time.

BYE BYE America the free BYE BYE habeas corpus BYE BYE innocent until proven guilty. American Presidents are puppets for the real rulers of the Earth the International Bankers. The private owned Fedral Reserve (not part of the US gover.) has driven America so far into debt.

[bobcook28]

@TrainingStream

We are now, No longer a free country.

Congress passed it, President Obama signed it.

This law dooms freedom, and now no longer any reason to live in the USA.

[Yasminesoulstealer]

@bobcook28 That didn't just happen, it was a progression that started quite a while ago. Remember the patroit act? All of these things just keep adding up.

[belleairn1124]

i remember it i was only 10 never forget

[Vatch1966]

More than 40 years later..song is still haunting.

[Myenne808]

Tell your children. Never forget.

[astroboirap]

is this neil young?

[chopseee]

@astroboirap too right and with the others great version

[chuckolove]

"The troops were battle dressed." Huh,the troops are going to be battle-dressed more and more now,as the months go on;and not just on our campusses,but out there,on our streets,and on our front lawns.And real soon,well the teargas and rubber bullets are going to be replaced with mustard and the full metal jacket.And at first,well we'll all just stand there,and watch;but when our children and our wives start to fall in mass...well,what's left of us...well,we'll probably just fall,also.Well?

[TheScoopHere]

@chuckolove Not If We Can Help It ... No (wo)/man is an island.

[tatechi2010]

Ayer como hoy , yanquis fascistas hijos de puta cobardes

[bgurrola14]

I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT I HATE THE GOVERNMENT AND ALWAYS WILL

[BgMsDangerus]

Whenever I hear this song, I am ashamed to tell people that I have lived in Ohio since I was 7 years old.

[MilesIsDaBombDiggity]

@BgMsDangerus there nothign to be ashamed of though

[xxbammxd]

@bereskwolf "They ( The Governent ) Got money for war, but can't feed the poor." Tupac Shakur. This whole system is fucked up. People are arrested for their beliefs. There is still racism, and prejudice people. Gays are still frowned upon. Other countries have nuclear weapons. The world is not safe anymore. When I was young and people used to say "Hell on Earth." I never thought it could exist

[inthebiscuits]

It's all there in The Prince, do not be surprised by the corruption of politicians and bureaucrats, don't ignore our own complicity. As a democracy, The People are supposed to be the guardians of our own liberty, elites figured out (in keeping with Machiavelli) that the illusion of popular sovereignty is enough to co-opt the majority, who would then ridicule the "malcontents" decrying the system. And that is exactly what has happened: bribed, cajoled, and/or coerced into accepting their program.

[nvet1953]

I was in my Junior year in high school when I heard about on Huntley /Brinkey....

[MrFrench439]

@nvet1953 Same here; I remember it vividly. Pointless deaths protesting a pointless war (except for those in the military hardware business).

But those four deaths probably did more to shine a light on what was wrong with the government than the comparatively anonymous deaths of our peers in the meat grinder that was southeast Asia.

If you haven't yet, visit the Vietnam Vets Memorial in DC. All those names; 58,000 of our generation, etched in granite, lost forever... for what?

[electricrailwaygod]

So damnably amazing that nothing really much has really changed! (1970 -2011). Replace Cambodian War with Wall Street, the Kent State student protestors with Occupy Wall Street movement and the Kent State Campus with Zucotti Park (as well as with other locations across America) and you have the picture! AMERICA HAS BECOME THE "FASCIST CORPORATE POLICE STATE OF AMERIKA"! NO DAMN DIFFERENCE! (Shameful)!

[xxbammxd]

@electricrailwaygod You mean AmeriKKKa

[BgMsDangerus]

@xxbammxd And just what jerkwater, one horse town are you from? Being a CERTIFIED HILLBILLY from East Tennessee, not only do I have the right to question your comment, I have the right to let you know just how offensive your "KKK" remark is. When my granny found out that gramps had joined this offensive group, she took his white, silk robe and made my mom, a very small child at the time, a petticoat out of it. Long Live America, without the KKK garbage!!!!

[SylvanaForrester]

@BgMsDangerus I like that story. Very nice.

[rjc3208]

I remember this day just as clearly as i do the Kennedy Assasination. I really think were headed down the same path today. Perfect song perfect pics. Excellent Joe..Ricky!

[pbrucpaul]

Brother do I remember when that happened. Live rounds of ammunition? That was despicable. It only spoke to the incompetence that was going on with the powers that be.

[allenshepard]

Ronnie Gilbert ( of the weavers )was teaching at this school at the time

[MsPropinquity]

I remember my friends and I being stared at by men in suits in college. President Nixon was to appear at a local high school that evening. Their stares were hostile and then reality bit us. A guitar was picked up and Ohio was sung. We did not allow them to provoke us. They embarassed themselves by not knowing who we were.

[recharchic]

TheBacmaster: It's a great sorrow and sadness to see how our leaders act both used as in Mexico, the Mexicans are in favor of the causes of the oppressed. this makes me quite INDIGNANT

[airkooled05]

Oppression is not hiding in the shadows . The bank bail outs and all the other lies are right out there . God help us

[mangledinal]

I remember when the Kent shootings happened. I was attending Eastern Michigan U. in Ypsilanti. We had a protest that night or a little later. They brought out National Guard and big dogs to chase us off. We were being peaceful, too. My teenage years and early adult years were years of deaths and tragedy. Has it changed?

[bereskwolf]

@mangledinal I may be only 14 but damn is it all the same, I never liked the government much with the oppression, free speech my ass. This country has fallen more than once and that's by it's own government. "True patriotism is loving your country and it's government when it desrves it"-Mark Twaine. I just remember that qoute alot lately, so guess yeah im young but i'm sorry that this world's government is still fucked up.

[EnjoyTheSurface]

yeah, guns what a nice little invention

[iTzMyFancySauce]

Those Hippies brought it upon themselves.

it wasn't a peaceful protest.

they were burning down buildings and throwing stuff at the soldiers.

[GPXgirl]

@iTzMyFancySauce So its okay so murder 4 people and injure a bunch just because they threw a few pieces of stuff? THEY HAD THEIR GUNS DRAWN, they were trying to get them to leave! It is never right to murder innocent people! The soldiers new, they cant be hurt by them because they're the ones with the weapons! Yet, they shot anyway! THAT WILL NEVER BE JUSTIFIED!

[damianmann]

@iTzMyFancySauce That's a fucking outright lie.

[bobbyglomp]

@iTzMyFancySauce You ignorance is unbelievable. People that share your ignorance are responsible for injustices like this.

[1cme1]

@bobbyglomp and yours is as bad as his. those protesters treated veterans like animals, threw shit at them, beat them up, ignored them as if they had the plague, all after they went through hell for their country. why? because they didnt like the war? neither did the soldiers. the difference is, they were actually in the war, while the protesters sat on their asses back home bitching about it. the unpopularity of the war put restrictions on what the soldiers could do, and even got some killed.

[rozback]

@1cme1 That's not true, a lot of the soldiers home on leave joined in the protests, and smoked pot with the rest of us. We didn't hold it against the soldiers a lot of us had brothers or sweethearts fighting in Nam and we just wanted them home not in jail for refusing to go! Let's see just how much money Congress forks over to care of our most recent vets.

[MaeNotEast]

@1cme1 Yes, many protesters treated the returning soldiers terribly and most grew to realize their mistake. But common sentiment held that they weren't fighting for their country. They were fighting for South Vietnam and that's one thing people had a hard time getting past. Vietnam was a small country on the other side of the world that most people had never heard of and couldn't care less about.

It's tragic that Vietnam vets were treated so badly, let's hope that's never repeated.

[PampersPete]

@iTzMyFancySauce I'm not big on hippies myself but those kids certainly didn't deserve to get murdered, let alone shot. The National Guard had no business being there in the first place.

[zen2holyman]

@iTzMyFancySauce BS! We were protesting the Vietnam War, I guess you feel that putting flowers in the barrels of guns justified their deaths!

[BekkadeCali]

@iTzMyFancySauce Do us all a favor and read your history

[MusicMadMaurice]

@iTzMyFancySauce Two of those killed were Sandra Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder, who had been walking from one class to the next at the time, nowhere near the protestors. Schroeder was also a member of the campus ROTC batallion. Did these two bring it upon themselves? Have you visited their parents to express your opinion that they deserved to die? Bet you haven't you gutless wonder.

[formaface]

Powerful vid Joe....the oppression is still with us, hiding in the shadows...

[MarioninSavannah]

@formaface

The oppression isn't hiding in the shadows any more. I can remember when peaceful protesters weren't herded into "free speech zones." I'm glad that I'm older than those poor kids who were killed at Kent State and I don't have to watch the country sink any lower.

[TakeBackAmerica2012]

@formaface They're not even hiding anymore. OWS, NDAA, it's in our face now.

[judeyorke]

@formaface

we must be the light that dispells the shadows..... *cheers*

[anitashelby]

Such A Great Song & Vid!!!!!...Thankyou dear Joe....Anita..

[aprilspring770]

Great classic song.  Nice post.

[davyearl]

whoa. this'll take you back...

[5julia10]

Good song and video is good and touching too.

[flipside1545]

yes joe..i remember very well...thanks buddy!!