Kent State 1970 Yearbook Tragic National Guard War Protest Shootings

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Kent State 1970 Yearbook Tragic National Guard War Protest shootings
The
Kent State shootings
(also known as the
May 4 massacre
or the
Kent State massacre
)
[3]
[4]
[5]
were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the
Vietnam War
at
Kent State University
in
Kent, Ohio
, by members of the
Ohio National Guard
on May 4, 1970. Twenty-nine guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent
paralysis
.
[6]
[7]
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the
Cambodian Campaign
, which President
Richard Nixon
announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.
[8]
[9]
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a
student strike of 4 million students
,
[10]
and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the
role of the United States in the Vietnam War
.
[11]
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