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May 4, 2020 · CNN — Fifty years ago today, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State University students as they protested against the Vietnam War. Four students were killed. Nine were injured. The...
- Nixon's Invasion of Cambodia Triggers Protests
- National Guard Arrives at Kent State
- Tear Gas, Thrown Rocks, Then Guardsmen Open Fire
- National Guardsmen Sign Statement of Regret
May 1, 1970 Around noon on the day after Nixon’s speech, some 500 Kent State students and faculty gather on the Commons, a large, grassy area in the middle of campus. They bury a copy of the Constitution to symbolize Nixon’s “murder” of constitutional principles by invading Cambodia without a declaration of waror consultation with Congress. A secon...
May 2 Worried about more unrest, Satrom asks the governor, James Rhodes, to mobilize the Ohio National Guard. When Guardsmen begin arriving on the Kent State campus that evening, they find the school’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) building has been set on fire. A crowd of some 1,000 people surround the building, many of them cheering ...
May 4 Defying the ban, people begin gathering on the Commons around 11 a.m. on Monday. By noon, some 3,000 people are there, including a core group of some 500 demonstrators around the Victory Bell, and many more onlookers. The target of their protests shifts from Nixon, Cambodia and the Vietnam War, to the National Guard and its occupation of Kent...
Even decades later, it remains unclear exactly why the Guardsmen opened fire on the crowd of students at Kent State on May 4, 1970. In subsequent investigations and federal court testimony, many of them testify that they had feared for their lives, and were acting in self defense. Many people question whether the crowd posed that serious a threat, ...
May 3, 2020 · May 3, 2020, 8:51 AM UTC. By Ben Kesslen. 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...
Sep 8, 2017 · Howard Ruffner/Getty Images. Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to...
Jan 22, 2024 · ROANOKE, VA – With nearly a dozen incidents since 2020, Downtown Roanoke has seen its share of gun violence. There’s at least one shooting per year in the same area – at the 100 block of...
Apr 24, 2023 · Police say the shooting took place on Campbell Avenue SE — the same street where Benny Marconi’s is located. Benny’s manager Kory Williams was in the last hour of his shift when he heard the...
Jan 22, 2024 · The Roanoke Police Department released an update regarding the shooting that occurred at the Status Restaurant and Lounge early morning on Sunday, Jan. 21. Read the full article here:...
