Kent State--4 May 1970

Kent State shootings
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Kent State shootings

John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway, kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard
Location Kent, Ohio, United States
Date May 4, 1970
12:24 p.m. (Eastern: UTC-5)
Weapons

M1 Garand rifles .45 caliber pistol 12-gauge shotgun

Deaths 4
Non-fatal injuries
9
Victims Kent State University students
Perpetrators Ohio National Guard
May 4, 1970, Kent State Shootings Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Kent State shootings is located in Ohio
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Location 0.5 mi. SE of the intersection of E. Main St. and S. Lincoln St., Kent, Ohio
Coordinates 41.150092°N 81.343353°WCoordinates: 41.150092°N 81.343353°W
Area 17.24 acres (6.98 ha)[2]
NRHP Reference # 10000046[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 23, 2010[1]
Designated NHL December 23, 2016
Color photograph of memorial (six posts with lights set around a rectangular demarcation) with grass, trees, and a building in the background.
Memorial to Jeffrey Miller, taken from approximately the same perspective as John Filo's 1970 photograph, as it appeared in 2007.

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 Guardsmen. The shootings were 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]

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