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Four Dead in Ohio (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2017
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LibTexan49
(31 posts)1. Message deleted by DU the Administrators
byronius
(7,391 posts)2. Powerful, critical event.
yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)3. For those too young to remember.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by burning the campus ROTC building and throwing rocks at the Gaurdsmen. The massacre was perpetrated by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. Twenty-nine guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[8][9]
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by burning the campus ROTC building and throwing rocks at the Gaurdsmen. The massacre was perpetrated by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. Twenty-nine guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[8][9]
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)4. It could happen again
considering that nobody even knows about the other student shootings at Jackson State and South Carolina State and some would pretend they never happened.
Kent state made headlines because of the type of people who got shot, not the people doing the shooting. Trump's people would love to make America great again and GOP politicians have already called for it. They've already run down protestors in the roads with vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangeburg_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings
KPN
(15,635 posts)5. Correction. It will happen again ...
methinks sooner than later.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)7. Drain the Swamp means something very different to some people
who believe the 2nd amendment is the final solution to people using the 1st amendment
Saviolo
(3,280 posts)6. Also:
And don't forget Gordon Lightfoot's "Black Day In July" about the 1967 Detroit Race Riot:
From Wiki:
To help end the disturbance, Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan Army National Guard into Detroit, and President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in both the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions. The result was 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. The scale of the riot was surpassed in the United States only by the 1863 New York City draft riots during the American Civil War,[1] and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The riot was prominently featured in the news media, with live television coverage, extensive newspaper reporting, and extensive stories in Time and Life magazines. The staff of the Detroit Free Press won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting for its coverage.
oldcynic
(385 posts)8. It caused outrage at the time. Today...who would notice?