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Includes US Army radio references to the Kent State protests, with accompanying archival footage. 2017: The Vietnam War (TV series), episode 8 "The History of the World" (April 1969 – May 1970), directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Includes a short segment on the background, events, and effects of the Kent State shootings, using film ...
On May 8, ten days after Nixon announced the Cambodian invasion (and 4 days after the Kent State shootings), 100,000 protesters gathered in Washington and another 150,000 in San Francisco. [9] Nationwide, students turned their anger on what was often the nearest military facility—college and university Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC ...
Kent State student protest leaders called for a May 4 rally at noon at the Commons on campus to further protest America's involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as the presence of National ...
Gregory Payne, an Emerson College scholar and expert on the Kent State shootings, said Vietnam-era protesters certainly worried about getting drafted, but they also took a moral stand, as are ...
A student protests before the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University shortly before the Kent State Shootings. May 4, 1970. May 4: At Kent State University in Ohio, a protest is met with the Kent State Shootings, as the U.S. National Guard kill four young people during a demonstration. As a result, four million students go on strike at ...
Kent State President Todd Diacon noted that similar protests over the Vietnam War also erupted at Columbia University in 1968. "They even occupied the same building they are occupying now," Diacon ...
Kent State/Cambodia Invasion Protest, Washington, D.C.: After the Kent State shootings, on May 4, 100,000 anti-war demonstrators converged on Washington, D.C. to protest the shooting of the students in Ohio and the Nixon administration's incursion into Cambodia. Even though the demonstration was quickly put together, protesters were still able ...
A QB from Canton and freshman Nick Saban were faces in the crowd after the infamous May 4 Kent State shootings. ... nine others were wounded during student protests against the Vietnam War on May ...