Kent State is known for the history of May 4 where four students were shot and killed by the National Guard who were called to campus in response to student protests regarding the Vietnam War.

1970 — the day four Kent State University students died after members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators — some 400 students gathered on the campus of ...

“The National Guard going to college campuses Kent State and elsewhere did not end well, and I think that would be a very very bad idea,” said Kaine. The protests and encampments could disrupt ...

But the students all acted from a common belief that the Vietnam ... Four of those Kent State students died. That event, combined with Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, led to protests at more than ...

As Kent State University prepares for Saturday's 54th observance of the 1970 shootings of four people during an anti-war demonstration, an organization calling itself "Students for Justice in ...

The fuse of a generation was lit on April 30, 1970, when President Richard Nixon announced an unprecedented escalation of the Vietnam ... the state flooded the governor’s office with calls and letters ...

February: Recruiters from Dow visit the Madison campus ... to the Wisconsin State capital in what they term a "funeral procession" to protest police brutality. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, a memorial ...