Modern Era · North America · Politics
1970
Kent State shootings
May 4, 1970
Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar protesters at Kent State University, killing four. A photograph of a young woman screaming over a fallen body carried the event into every American paper. Campuses across the country shut down in grief and fury. Nixon's Vietnamization program had domestic blood on it now.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.