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Kent State massacre - Ohio - May 4, 1970

 

 

 

The four students killed that day at Kent State,

clockwise from top left,

Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder.

 

Photograph:

Getty Images and Laura, via findagrave.com

 

Four Students Were Killed in Ohio.

America Was Never the Same.

The Kent State shootings marked the end of the 1960s,

and the beginning of our era of political polarization.

NYT

May 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/
opinion/kent-state-shooting-protest.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 4, 1970 file photo,

Ohio National Guard soldiers move in on war protesters

at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, on 4 May 1970.

 

Photograph: AP

 

How the Kent State massacre

marked the start of America's polarization

G

Mon 4 May 2020    07.00 BST

Last modified on Mon 4 May 2020    07.18 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/04/
kent-state-massacre-marked-start-of-americas-polarization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Kent State University student reacts

to the death of a protester killed by national guardsmen

during the anti-war protest.

 

Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive

 

How the Kent State massacre

marked the start of America's polarization

G

Mon 4 May 2020    07.00 BST

Last modified on Mon 4 May 2020    07.18 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/04/
kent-state-massacre-marked-start-of-americas-polarization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann Vecchio

kneels over the body of the student Jeffrey Miller,

who was killed by Ohio National Guard troops

during an antiwar demonstration

at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

 

Photograph:

John Paul Filo/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

 

Four Students Were Killed in Ohio.

America Was Never the Same.

The Kent State shootings marked the end of the 1960s,

and the beginning of our era of political polarization.

NYT

May 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/
opinion/kent-state-shooting-protest.html

 

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May 4, 1970

 

Ohio

 

Kent State massacre

 

 

 

John Filo/Associated Press

 

Wikipedia caption:

John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph

of Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway,

kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller

after he was shot by the National Guard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

 

added 2.9.2007

http://www.uiowa.edu/~policult/assets/VietNam/KentState.jpg

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1098949

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On May 4, 1970,

after a weekend

of student rallies

against the expansion

of the Vietnam War

into Cambodia

— an R.O.T.C. building

was set afire

during the protests —

National Guardsmen

called to the campus

by Gov. James A. Rhodes

shot into a crowd

of demonstrators,

killing four students

and wounding nine others.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/
joseph-kelner-98-dies-led-kent-state-lawsuit.html

 

 

 

The killing of four white students (...)

brought the anti-Vietnam protests

global attention.

 

The killing of black students

at the same time went unnoticed.

 

(...)

 

28 soldiers opened fire

on anti-Vietnam war

demonstrators,

letting loose 67 bullets

in just 13 seconds.

 

Four students were killed,

nine wounded

 

(...)

 

A majority of Americans

sided with the national guard because,

whatever the country’s feelings

about an increasingly unpopular war,

the protesters had come to represent

something much more objectionable.

 

Fairly or not, the students

were increasingly seen

as allied with violence

in an age of riots

and revolutionary groups

including The Weathermen

and a faction

led by Sam Melville that,

between January 1969

and the Kent State massacre,

committed 4,330 bombings

against federal buildings

and corporations in the US,

killing 43 people.

 

(...)

 

Two years earlier,

police in South Carolina opened fire

on African American students

at the state university in Orangeburg

protesting against racial segregation

in the town.

 

The police arrived well armed,

including some

who brought shotguns from home

loaded with buckshot for killing deer.

 

They left

three African Americans

in their teens dead

and 27 other people wounded.

 

In contrast to Kent State,

the killings received

little national press coverage.

 

Federal prosecutors charged

nine of the police officers

with using excessive force

but they were acquitted

after claiming students shot

even though there was no evidence.

 

The only person to go to prison

over what became known

as The Orangeburg massacre

was Cleveland Sellers,

a student rights leader

who was shot in the shoulder

and later convicted of rioting.

 

(...)

 

Kent State wasn’t the end

of such killings either.

 

Eleven days later,

Mississippi police fired

hundreds of shots at students

at Jackson State College,

killing two and wounding 12.

 

Again, the police claimed

to have come under fire

but federal investigators

found no evidence of it.

 

A presidential commission

investigating campus unrest

concluded that the police fusillade

at Jackson State

“was an unreasonable,

unjustified overreaction”.

 

But Sellers,

author of My Vanishing Country,

said those killings

are largely forgotten

because of who died.

 

“Kent State

is a story that people know,

people can learn from,

whereas Orangeburg and Jackson,

because they happened

on black college campuses,

are stories that go untold,”

he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/04/
kent-state-massacre-marked-start-of-americas-polarization

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/04/
kent-state-massacre-marked-start-of-americas-polarization

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/
opinion/kent-state-shooting-protest.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/
joseph-kelner-98-dies-led-kent-state-lawsuit.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/us/09hickel.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/06/ohio-
neil-young-kent-state-shootings

 

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/23/
weekinreview/20090823_FAKE_SS_10.html

 

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/05/04/kent.state.revisit/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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