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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.
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
Jeffrey Glenn Miller (March 28, 1950 [2] – May 4, 1970) was an American student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, who was killed by the Ohio Army National Guard in the Kent State shootings. He had been protesting against the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus. National Guardsmen opened ...
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.
Joe Lewis was just 18 when he was shot twice by the Ohio National Guard on his college campus. A freshman at Kent State University in Ohio, Lewis had saved money working at the post office during ...
Kent State shootings explained: What happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970? Why was the National Guard sent to Kent State? The decision to bring the Ohio National Guard to Kent State can be traced ...
Kent State University at Kent, Ohio: 4 9 13: Kent State shootings: During a protest of the bombing of Cambodia at the university, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire, killing four and injuring nine people.
The Kent State campus sits empty as an Ohio National Guard jeep sits near Taylor Hall on the afternoon of May 4, 1970, after the university was closed following the shooting of 13 students by the ...