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4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-05-03 21:05:36
Description: Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University students. President Richard Nixon had promised to end American involvement in Vietnam following his election in 1968. Opposition to the war increased when the My Lai Massacre became public knowledge the following year and the draft lottery was reintroduced for the first time since the Second World War. By the time news broke that Nixon had authorised military action against Cambodia to eliminate suspected Viet Cong forces on 30 April 1970, protests against the war had spread around the country. On 1 May 1970 around 500 students at Kent State University ...
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