Jeffrey Glenn Miller
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Jeffrey Glenn Miller March 28, 1950 Plainview, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 4, 1970 (aged 20) Kent, Ohio, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wound |
| Resting place | Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Student |
Jeffrey Glenn Miller (March 28, 1950 – May 4, 1970) was an American student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio who was killed by the Ohio Army National Guard in the Kent State shootings. He had been protesting against the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus. National Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing Miller and three others, at an average distance of about 345 ft (106 m).
Miller was born in New York, the son of Elaine Holstein and Bernard Miller. His family was Jewish.
Four months before his death in May 1970, Miller had transferred to Kent State from Michigan State University. While at Michigan State, Miller pledged Phi Kappa Tau fraternity where his older brother had been a member. He and his brother had always been close, and shared a birthday. After his brother graduated from Michigan State, Miller found himself feeling increasingly out of touch with those he knew at Michigan State. During the summer of 1969, an old friend from New York who attended Kent State urged Miller to consider transferring. He quickly adapted to Kent State and soon had many friends, including Allison Krause and Sandra Scheuer, who would both die with him on May 4.
Miller had taken part in the protests that day and had thrown a tear gas canister back at the Ohio National Guardsmen who had originally fired it. The protests, initially against the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, had escalated into a protest against the presence of the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State campus. Miller was unarmed when he was shot; he had been facing the Guardsmen while standing in an access road leading into the Prentice Hall parking lot at a distance of approximately 265 feet (81 m). A single bullet entered his open mouth and exited at the base of his posterior skull, killing him instantly.John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photo (the most famous picture from the event), features Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over Miller's dead body.
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