The Day The National Guard Shot Americans

May 4, 1970. The Kent State Massacree.

Fifty-four years ago, four students were shot by the National Guard during an anti-Vietnam War protest at Kent State university in Ohio – a tragedy that still resonates today.

Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close.

So if you do not think that Trump would not use the military against citizens, think again.

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

A few years on a business trip, I made the pilgrimage to the site on the Kent State campus to see the area for myself. While one of the fields is now a building, the site of the shooting is still there, as well as the parking lot where several died. The pagoda was still there as well. I stood precisely where the Guard fired from near the pagoda, and where the closest students were who were shot, as well as where the dead were. One thing that was crystal clear is that based on the distance, the Guard were not under imminent threat by the students, and that there is no doubt that the killing was deliberate. One thing most people have forgotten, including when the right-wing verbally attacked the students and sided with the Guard, is that one of the four dead was an ROTC member, over 100 yards away, moving away with his back turned as he was shot in the back walking to class. When you stand where William Schroeder stood before he was gunned down in hate, you know this was an event that should never have happened.