Kent State

Cultural  

1. A controversial incident in 1970, in which unarmed students demonstrating against United States involvement in the Vietnam War were fired on by panicky troops of the National Guard. Four students were killed and nine wounded. The shooting occurred at Kent State University in Ohio. The troops were subsequently absolved of responsibility by the government, but their action turned many moderates against the Vietnam War and the Richard Nixon administration.

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He raised the specter of the Kent State shootings and said that we are basically gambling on this happening again very soon, perhaps multiple times, if the president continues to deploy a force into American streets that is trained to fight foreign wars.

From Slate

Analysis by Prof He Yin of Kent State University found that across the Gaza Strip, 82.4% of annual crops and more than 97% of tree crops were likely to have suffered damage during the war up to 10 August this year.

From BBC

Nica Delgado, a graduate student of library science at Kent State University, told Salon that it feels like SB 1 has stolen “a lot of joy” from the campus.

From Salon

“The legislators that pushed this through took something from our students in Ohio that they will never understand, and they took programs from us that truly saved lives and kept people in school,” Delgado, president of the Kent State Ohio Student Association, said.

From Salon

In 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War on the campus of Kent State University, killing four of them and wounding nine others.

From Salon