KENT STATE, 1970

I was a senior in high school when the Kent State killings happened. Today is the 35 anniversary of the shooting of four students by the National Guardsmen.

"This country's first national student strike was the result of the killing of four students by National Guardsmen. The 100-a-day new campus protests that occurred during the four days following theing the four days following the student fatalities at Kent State are unprecedented in our history. Kent State escalated years of student unrest to historic heights that shocked the nation. What gave the period of May 1-15 its unique intensity and agony was the killing of four students at Kent State on May 4."

--from the book ON STRIKE...SHUT IT
DOWN! (a 1970 scientific national survey by Urban Research Corporation of Chicago)