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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.
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.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s the university was known internationally for its student activism in opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, due mainly to the Kent State shootings in 1970. As of 2022, Kent State was the third-largest university in Ohio with an enrollment of over 34,000 students in the eight-campus system and ...
Now the shootings at Kent State and their aftermath have taken on fresh relevance, with students demonstrating against another far-off war, college administrators seeking to balance free-speech rights against their imperative to maintain order, and a divided public seeing disturbing images of chaotic confrontations.
Kent resident Doug Fuller was a Kent State student at the time of the shootings. On May 4, he was positioned behind the Guardsmen who fired the fatal shots. "I heard what was the shooting," he said.
The Kent State massacre came to mind when Gov. Ron DeSantis announced this month that he wants to re-establish the Florida State Guard. Kent State shootings show how an armed response to protests ...
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.
In 2007 Alan Canfora, one of the nine wounded students, located a copy of a tape of the shootings in a library archive. The original 30-minute, reel-to-reel tape was made by Terry Strubbe, a Kent State communications student who turned on his recorder and put its microphone in his dorm window overlooking the campus.