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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.
The shootings led to protests and a national student strike, causing hundreds of campuses to close because of both violent and non-violent demonstrations. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks. Five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C. against the war.
Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970
President Nixon created the President's Commission on Campus Unrest in June 1970 to take a look at the Kent State shootings. The report , published in September 1970, said that the shootings were ...
Mary Ann Vecchio (born December 4, 1955) is an Italian American respiratory therapist and one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
Football practice for Kent State's 1970 season started three months after the shootings under third-year head coach Dave Puddington, a decorated U.S. Navy pilot during the Korean War.
“Kent State” portrays a campus that grappled for years with its legacy, with no official memorial to the slain students erected on campus until two decades later, in 1990. A new visitors center devoted to the shooting that opened in 2012 suggested an emerging consensus about the tragedy, writes VanDeMark, whose work may contribute to that ...
Norman was a Criminology [1] junior at the university on May 4, 1970, when soldiers from the Ohio National Guard suddenly opened fire on the crowd of students. Norman, who described himself as a "gung-ho" informant, [1] was present and armed at the rally while he photographed the demonstrators for the campus police and the FBI, a fact that was initially denied by both agencies but later confirmed.