May 4, 1970

[mobeau69]

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1. K & R!

[captain queeg]

2. Yes I remember. I was in junior high about 15 miles from there

[mobeau69]

8. Fucking Republican James Rhodes was governor.

This tragedy is the only things he’s remembered for. Sort of how donnie corona and the corona virus will be remembered.

[FailureToCommunicate]

3. 50 Years ago. And never forget Terry Norman, police informant who likely started the shooting...

https://www.cleveland.com/science/2010/12/kent_state_shootings_does_form.html


And then of course, the Jackson State shootings 11 days later.

[Number9Dream]

4. Remembering - Allison Krause, Sandra Scheuer, Jeffrey Miller, William Schroeder

Last edited Mon May 4, 2020, 11:20 AM - Edit history (1)

In the spring of 1970, young Americans were being killed and wounded in a horrible war which divided our country. During an unruly anti-war protest on the Kent State campus, Ohio national guardsmen fired on unarmed college students. Three of the four students killed were simply walking across campus, and not even involved in the demonstration.

I remember how the killings at Kent State pushed a large number of my high school classmates, who were politically middle-of-the-road, much further toward the anti-war, anti-establishment end of the spectrum. After all, this was a demonstration on a college campus in middle America, not China. They felt it could be them next.

My older cousin, in the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, in S. Vietnam, didn't hear about it until a day or two after. He said most of the soldiers felt that battle-dressed guardsmen should not have responded, even to rock throwing, with lethal force.
Parents of college students were upset and angry to think that their children could be shot dead walking across campus.
In the days following May 4th, there were many demonstrations at colleges and even high schools condemning the shootings at Kent State.
As with any history, by remembering this senseless tragedy, hopefully, we can prevent it from happening again.



http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm

[TomVilmer]

5. And in Swedish...

[niyad]

6. KNR

[rwsanders]

7. Just finished showing the video to my kids. They are too young for it, but have to know what they

are facing.
Showed them some of what happened at Standing Rock so they know it isn't just something from the past.

[MarianJack]

9. I was weeks short of my 15th birthday.

I got into a lot of arguments with knuckle dragging flat earthers who thought the National Guard were actually right...Ass hats.

RESIST

[mobeau69]

10. Stupid governor sent the National Guard there and they were all scared weekend warriors just trying

to avoid the draft themselves. A recipe for exactly what happened. Scared kids with loaded weapons was a dumbass option.