“I saw two people I knew well, behind me, to my left and right, get shot and die. I saw tonnes of blood running down the sidewalk in the new day’s sun. And I felt like I was going to vomit and pass out. I lay down on the grass, frozen. I think it qualified as a nervous breakdown. And everything changed after that day.”
Devo founder Gerald Casale is looking back on 4 May 1970. Then a student protester, he was demonstrating against