What college had 4 students killed by National Guard troops on May 4, 1970?
Correct answer: Kent State University
AntediluvianCarp103
Wow, too many comments to address. As an Ohioan, in school at that time, it was a horrible & frightening tragedy, in very uncertain times. But please, people, at least know the FACTS before you speak! Learn history; don't alter it to suit your own agenda.
Fossil5465
trinityregina1, you really should study up before you make such wild claims. At no point in any of the background I found was this said to be ordered by Nixon; even if it had been it is not the president’s job to ensure it is carried out. A sergeant began firing at the students and that is what started it.
trinityregina1
Lenny the Clam, I was 18 & clearly remember it. Nixon ordered the national guard was to "disperse the crowd with all force available". the dead girl had, mins before the shooting, placed a flower in the barrel of the rifle that she was killed with. the girl trying to help her, was a runaway from south Florida. no riot, no
guns, no fighting
amidst the protesters. the order to shoot to kill was Nixon, who had 4 students murdered simply because they disagreed with his policies.
GreatGrandYaYa
we should never forget
ZigRange7
Lenny the Clam, Neil young wrote that song in their memory
rozzman785
trinityregina1, not Nixon
Ohio Governor James Rhodes sent the National Gaurd.
Player Sparkles
Player #15121014, We the people need to get out and vote. Let's take our country back from the political liars.
TwistedPistol73
This is the exact reason why the government/LE/military shouldn't be the only ones to have firearms. They can be ordered to kill
Player #24784200
Player #15121014, no, those students were not rioting, looting or killing anyone like the so called protesters of 2020
trinityregina1
WickedCommodore90382, in Chicago during the 1968(?) protests, mayor Daley ordered his police force to "disperse the crowd with whatever means at hand". people were beaten, dragged, kicked and arrested. yrs later a report was issued stating the
occurrence, as well as
deaths, were avoidable
and should have never
happened in America.
shot. Daley called
Nixon afterward and the casualty reports.
Rio
Fossil5465, You are so right. I was a sr. in high school living about 50 miles from where it happened. Governor James Rhodes ordered the National Guard, not Nixon. I served in the Ohio National Guard from 1971-1977 and heard several versions of what happens, none that I will repeat here.
cloe
This was egregious. The "older" generation seemed to accept this.
addam
PerkyLin,
unfortunately cops done it quite often back in the day before the camcorder was released and some good bystander managed to photograph the Rodney King beating and suddenly ppl actually started to believe what ppl had been trying to tell individuals for years prior to that the police were beating and shooting ppl who were trying to follow the orders that were given despite the fact that the cops always use that famous get out of jail free quotes that they were resisting arrest and or I was In fear for my life
MARELMAR
that was a terrible disaster which was on my birthday.
Player #120374466
This was the results of many years of violent protest at many colleges. Bombed buildings, arson. and injury and some deaths. So it wasn't alway protest with flowers and love
Tony
Wow, there are far too many comments to address, some with misinformation.
Within days of this national disgrace Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released the song, "Four Dead in Ohio." Don't forget what the students were protesting. Do you have the courage?
PerkyLin
I remember that time. So horrible and so sad. How could anyone live with themself knowing they had killed unarmed young people? I was overseas at the time, pregnant with my only child. Must have been 23 years old then.
Lash
Sue, Isley Bros probably covered the song by Crosby, Still, Nash & Young which Neil Young wrote. it had that lyric (Four dead in Ohio)
Sue
ZigRange7, isley bros. also wrote ...4 dead in OhiO.
Mariposa
Player #15121014,
If you mean that it gave the constitutional right to demonstrate after May 20th. Yes, demonstrate, not burn down buildings, businesses and murder.
rk
cazzy, We Boomers hated the war, so when Nixon/Kissinger expanded into Cambodia, we protested American imperialism.
rk
Player #24784200, Peaceful protesters, I'm one, who wants racial justice in America.
rk
Player Sparkles, It's the billionaire oligarchs who own both parties we should be fighting, not each other.
cazzy
Fossil5465, what was going on in Cambodia at the time?
Player #27741749
The college didn't HAVE THEM KILLED...
Player #16118557
Player #15121014, No, it does not.
Player #15121014
Kent State in May 1970, was a time in history, when the painful use of police force was used against college students, using their constitutional right for demonstration. Does that sound familiar to May 2020?
David
I knew that it was Kent but inadvertently touched the wrong college.
Player #15356356
I was born in Kent, Ohio.
Redeemed 2001
I was in high school in Cleveland when this happened what a world
Uninitialized
SkilledVirus11, Stop finding excuses for men that are heavily armed against unarmed students who had every right to a peaceful protest!! Jesus Christ Man!!!!
Uninitialized
What type of President would send troops to a university to shoot students who are protesting? I never knew this! Omg! sad! sad!🙏🏾
Player woody2327
I was 5 at the time so I don't remember it, but, The Beach Boys mentioned it in their song 'Student Demonstration Time' on the Surfs Up album.
TwistedPistol73
This is a great example of why the government/L.E. should not be the only ones with firearms. They can be ordered to kill