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yellowcanine

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3. For those too young to remember.......
Thu May 4, 2017, 10:46 AM
May 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_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 burning the campus ROTC building and throwing rocks at the Gaurdsmen. The massacre was perpetrated 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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Four Dead in Ohio [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2017 OP
Message deleted by DU the Administrators LibTexan49 May 2017 #1
Powerful, critical event. byronius May 2017 #2
For those too young to remember....... yellowcanine May 2017 #3
It could happen again IronLionZion May 2017 #4
Correction. It will happen again ... KPN May 2017 #5
Drain the Swamp means something very different to some people IronLionZion May 2017 #7
Exactly KPN May 2017 #9
Also: Saviolo May 2017 #6
It caused outrage at the time. Today...who would notice? oldcynic May 2017 #8
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