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This sparked the largest student strikes and student protests in history that swept across 3,000 campuses nationwide, punctuated ten days later by the shooting of African American students at Jackson State University.
5. Mai 2020 · This is the story of Kent State University students who stood up to question racism, violence against protesters, and the long American involvement in the Vietnam War. On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot thirteen of them, killed four, and all were forever changed.
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- Daniel Miller
On May 4th, 1970, thirteen of these young Americans were shot down by the National Guard in a shocking act of violence against unarmed students. Four, Jeffery Miller, Sandy Scheuer, Bill Shroeder and Allison Krause, were killed. Immediately afterward, the largest student strikes and student protests in history swept across 3,000 campuses ...
4. Mai 2024 · On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who now teaches there reflects on that day and offers lessons for protesters now.
- The Vietnam War
- Invasion of Cambodia
- Vietnam War Protests
- Ohio National Guard Arrives
- Protesters and Guardsmen Gather
- Four Dead in Ohio
- Aftermath of The Kent State Shooting
- Kent State Shooting Legacy
- Sources
American involvement in the civil war in Vietnam—which pitted the communists of the northern part of the country against the more democratic south—had been controversial from its beginnings, and a significant segment of the general public in the United States was against the presence of U.S. armed forces in the region. Protests across the country i...
However, on April 30, 1970, President Nixon authorized U.S. troops to invade Cambodia, a neutral nation located west of Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops were using safe havens in Cambodia to launch attacks on the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese, and parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail—a supply route used by the North Vietnamese—passed through Cambodia. Con...
Even before Nixon’s formal announcement of the invasion, rumors of the U.S. military incursion into Cambodia resulted in protests at colleges and universities across the country. At Kent State, these protests actually began on May 1, the day after the invasion. That day, hundreds of students gathered on the Commons, a park-like space at the center ...
The following day, Saturday, May 2, there were rumors that radicals were making threats against the town of Kent and the university. The threats reportedly were primarily made against businesses in the town and certain buildings on campus. After speaking with other city officials, Satrom asked Governor Rhodes to send the Ohio National Guardto Kent ...
With a major protest already scheduled for noon on Monday, May 4, once again on the Commons, university officials attempted to diffuse the situation by prohibiting the event. Still, crowds began to gather at about 11:00 that morning, and an estimated 3,000 protesters and spectators were there by the scheduled start time. Stationed at the now-destro...
General Canterbury ordered his men to lock and load their weapons, and to fire tear gas into the crowd. The Guardsmen then marched across the Commons, forcing protesters to move up a nearby hill called Blanket Hill, and then down the other side of the hill toward a football practice field. As the football field was enclosed with fencing, the Guards...
Following the shooting, the university was immediately ordered closed, and the campus remained shut down for some six weeks following the shootings. Numerous investigatory commissions and court trials followed, during which members of the Ohio National Guard testified that they felt the need to discharge their weapons because they feared for their ...
A signed statement by the Guard, drafted as part of the settlement, read, in part: “In retrospect, the tragedy… should not have occurred. The students may have believed that they were right in continuing their mass protest in response to the Cambodian invasion, even though this protest followed the posting and reading by the university of an order ...
Personal Remembrances of the Kent State Shootings, 43 Years Later. Slate. Kent State Shootings. Ohio History Central. The May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy. Kent State University. Nixon authorizes invasion of Cambodia, April 28, 1970. Politico. Was It Legal for the U.S. to Bomb Cambodia? The New York Times...
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970 in Kent, Ohio, 40 miles south of Cleveland.
Through the weekend of May 1 through May 4 and the entire month of May, it will be shown on public broadcasting stations around the country. CLEVELAND: Don’t miss the premiere of Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4 & Student Protest in America on WVIZ, May 1 (10:00 p.m.).
