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December 23, 2016. 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 took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the ...
Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio, United States.The university includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio located in Ashtabula, Burton, East Liverpool, Jackson Township, New Philadelphia, Salem, and Warren, along with additional regional and international facilities in Cleveland, Independence, and Twinsburg, Ohio; New York City; and Florence, Italy.
On May 15, 1970, days after the May 4 shootings at Kent State, police opened fire on students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Two students were killed and 12 were ...
While the war seemed to be coming to an end, this April 1970 announcement began nation-wide protests the next day, including in Kent. On Friday, May 1, 1970, protests began on Kent State's campus ...
Nationwide student anti-war strike of 1970. The nationwide student anti-war strike of 1970 was a massive outpouring of anti-Vietnam War protests that erupted in May of 1970 in response to the expansion of the war into neighboring Cambodia. The strike began on May 1 with walk-outs from college and high school classrooms on nearly 900 campuses ...
“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 ...
A former Guardsman remembers the events of May 1970 at Kent State as some of the most nerve-racking experiences of his life. 'Utter turmoil': Former National Guardsman reflects on Kent State ...
Kent State East Liverpool was established in 1965 as an academic outreach of Kent State located in the International Brotherhood of Operative Potters building. It moved to its present location in 1968, purchasing the former East Liverpool High School downtown campus from the East Liverpool City School District .