The Ohio National Guard fired indiscriminately into a crowd of students at Kent State University during protests against the ...

On May 4,1970, the Ohio National Guard killed 4 students and wounded 9 at Kent State. The deaths fueled anti-war protests at ...

Nixon appointed an investigative commission headed by Republican William Scranton that concluded that the shooting at Kent State “was unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable.” A year later ...

And then the shooting began. Guardsmen fired 67 shots from M-1 rifles at the students, according to Smithsonian Magazine. An Ohio National Guardsman who was at Kent State on the day of the ...

The May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings shaped the city of Kent for decades to come. In the immediate aftermath of the shootings – which claimed the lives of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller ...

In a bare-walls classroom at Kent State University, guest speaker Alan Frank leans back in an office chair, his hands clasped around the back of his head, and poses a question to 30 students.

The Kent State shootings highlighted and deepened divisions in an already politically polarized country, as did Nixon's response to them. Hofstra University historian Carolyn Eisenberg wrote in ...

Kent State’s curriculum includes courses centered on the massacre. Its May 4 Visitors Center details what preceded the shooting and the steps needed to prevent something similar from ever ...

In my view, the prospect of dispatching troops in the way that Trump proposes chillingly echoes actions that led up to the Kent State shootings. Some active-duty units, as well as National Guard ...