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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.
Coordinates: 41°09′00″N81°20′36″W41.1501°N 81.3433°W. The Kent State shootings (also known as the Kent State massacre or May 4 massacre[ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ]) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus.
Sep 8, 2017 · The Kent State shooting took place in 1970 when Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Vietnam War protesters at Kent State University, killing four.
Kent State University, Kent, O The Kent State shootings were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 40 mi (64 km) south of Cleveland.
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...
This secret widening of the Vietnam conflict drew immediate condemnation around the the world and fierce protests from antiwar activists in the United States, especially on college campuses. Five days days later, Ohio National Guard troops fired into a crowd protesting at Kent State University, killing four, wounding nine.
May 4, 2020 · At Kent State, a public university just east of Akron, Ohio, students broke windows, threw bottles at police cars, and on Friday night set a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps building on fire.
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