In the discussion thread: Shots Still Reverberate For Survivors Of Kent State...remembering May 4, 1970. [View all]
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Mon May 4, 2015, 08:51 AM
FailureToCommunicate (13,366 posts)
9. Terrible day for the anti-war movement, free speech, and America. As seniors in high school,
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we organized a county-wide protest and walkout from schools for May 8th and beyond. Government troops that had been used to quell civil rights disturbances were now marching on to college campuses and tear gassing and shooting protesters. Nixon, and Ohio Governor Rhodes, had encouraged 'law and order' to declare war on their own children and when FBI'student' informant Terry Norman fired into the crowd, the untrained Guardsmen fired into the gas filled area and things spiraled out of control...
 
http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2010/10/analysis_of_kent_state_audio_t.html |
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  Terrible day for the anti-war movement, free speech, and America. As seniors in high school, |
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