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May 1, 2020 · On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard trying to disperse a crowd of student demonstrators at Kent State University opened fire, killing four students and wounding nine others.
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Sep 8, 2017 · Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. The...
Kent State shooting, the shooting of unarmed college students at Kent State University, in northeastern Ohio, by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, one of the seminal events of the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States.
The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft.
Overview. Antiwar demonstrations erupt on over 400 college and university campuses across the United States in the wake of the Cambodian incursion. Amid protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen fire at students. Four students are killed and nine are wounded.
May 4, 2024 · On 4 May 1970, four students were shot dead by the National Guard during a Vietnam War protest at Kent State University. The shocking incident still resonates as a seminal moment in modern...
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Nov 21, 2023 · On May 4,1970, four students were killed and nine more were injured at Kent State University when National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War.
