Jerry M. Lewis, a professor at Kent State who witnessed the National Guard kill four students on May 4, 1970, and dedicated his life to telling the story of that dark day, has died at the age of 88.
Lewis was 33 years old at the time of the shootings and served as a faculty marshal.
“I saw a student laying on the ground some distance away so I went over, it was a blind student who had been tear gassed, so I applied first aid,” Lewis told News 5 during the 50th anniversary of the shooting…