At which US university were 4 students killed by National Guardsmen?
Correct answer: Kent State
InsatiableGoal55358
4 dead in ohio...a familar song with meaning
sugarbear33204
PanhandleGuy, One of the girls there wasn't even a student. She was just passing through. She lived 10 miles from where I was living at the time. Besides, who fires a gun into a group of kids armed with stones?
Gart
“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio.”
Player Tamsen
I have a friend who went to college there and was on campus when it happened. His studious friend died as he was walking between late classes. It led to major distrust and fear of the government. My friend left for Canada until justice returned a few years later.
Player #2845724
penawareof, Actually Crosby, Stills,Nash and Young wrote and recorded “Ohio”. Young later left the group. The band completed the song in record time because the subject matter was so current and they wanted their views out immediately.
MALICE
a sad state America is in cuz now shootings are happening all the time...
penawareof
Neil Young performed the song "Ohio".
Player SQinfoNUTS
ProteanCormorant9877, we are here. And we're still doing what matters: showing up, voting, asking questions, and planting trees.
DDDiva
Wendell Thomas, and also, Cooley High in Detroit suffered casualties when police raided the school looking for members of the Black Panther party (who were nowhere near the school). Our house was shot up and soon my dad moved us out if Detroit into the suburbs. It was a bloody mess for sure. There was Free Press coverage but that was abt it. 1970 was a horrible year in Detroit and other big cities with universities protesting Vietnam and trying to suffocate emergence of those supporting unrest, black freedoms, Malcolm X, Tim Leary and such as the Black Panthers. I was a scared to death kid for sure.
I got this
At a peaceful protest? They thought the students were armed?! I don't think so.
Right ✅️ US
Trebor, Media looking for a story; that will do it.
Right ✅️ US
rocksper, Outside Agitators are always lurking hoping to loot.
Look. into the Ferguson debacle.
Right ✅️ US
creepy-bold-dude, National Gaurd was right to be apprehensive but only commanders should have had live rounds. Others should have been trained with non-lethal deterrents. Bean bags rounds, smoke and tear gas. Concussion grenades etc.
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DDDiva, "FREE Angela Davis"
Right ✅️ US
Nervous (90 day wonders, thats their bootcamp) National Gaurdsmen with live rounds Untrained for that particular scenario who don't want to go to Vietnam themselves. Why they joined, so as not to be drafted.
Right ✅️ US
Tin soldiers and Nixons' coming.
We're finally on our own.
That summer I heard the drumming.
4 dead in Ohio.
Danny
DDDiva, The late 60s through the mid 70s had many whites escaping Detroit for the suburbs..."white flight". Many wouldn't go south of Eight Mile for years
tzipii
I've recently joined the quizzes. I read comments on some of the responses. (It is calmer than Facebook!) I am heartened by all of the memories that are shared. Some quite personal... some sad recollections. Thank you all for putting your feelings out there.
rocksper
I was very young but I remember my father saying 2 of them weren't even students but professional protesters. I haven't fact-checked
A
DDDiva, Amen!
Joshua
Player SQinfoNUTS, WHAT??!!!
Player #130998363
So a "mostly peaceful protest"
Trebor
sugarbear33204, ,1st gunshot was from a reporter who wasn't supposed to be armed
Sophie
Player #34450063, I have read and researched a lot about the Kent State shooting. I have been on the campus where it happened. I have never heard anything about clay balls with razor blades in them. I worked with a lady who was a secretary at the National Guard. She was working when the guardsmen returned to the base and heard them laughing about the shooting. She turned in her resignation the next day.
Sophie
Lash, there is a movie called Kent State. It was broadcast once on TV. I had a VHS tape of it in my high school library. For some reason it is difficult to find this movie.
Tony
That was an ugly day in the modern history of the US.
Reminds me of of Billy Jack. Killing Americans in America for protesting? Barbaric.
Tony
InsatiableGoal55358, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Player #118044812
Player #33237366, I'm sad for you, player33237366
Player #118044812
Canis Lupus, I remember that!!!
Player #118044812
Wendell Thomas, I was not aware. not much has changed in this day & age. So sad
Jim
Neil Young!!!
Jim
InsatiableGoal55358, Neil Young
Addam
DDDiva,
especially when the government was constantly lying about the Black Panthers committing crimes that they weren't doing and spreading fear across the country about black people carrying firearms in public which is something that hasn't changed much since
Player #82003701
sugarbear33204, sad
Lady Rocket
sugarbear33204, yea, that, our government...,nice. huh?
Edward
I remember a movie about this incident! Wish I could find it on DVD! It was a very good but sad at the same time!
K8
Agreed... a very sad and historically true song.
Lash
Player #4476480, Thanks! I'll look for it. Terrible, times, terrible loss.
Lash
DDDiva, I thought there was a movie about that in the 70's? Was that bad info I had?
Lash
InsatiableGoal55358, Exactly what I came to comment! Thank you.