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The only people Kent State students are allowed to hear about May 4, 1970 are propagandists who either want to glorify or relive student protests.
Kent State University is holding its annual commemoration ceremony Sunday to honor the memory of May 4, 1970 and the victims who died and were injured during the tragic event.
The National Guard fired tear gas to disperse the crowd of students gathered on the commons, May 4, 1970. Photo courtesy of Kent State University. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the day ...
Authorities in Ohio say a man "purposely" struck and killed a sheriff's deputy the day after his teen son was fatally shot by police. The weekend commemoration remembers the four who died: Allison ...
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fatally shot four Kent State students and wounded nine others during a protest of the Vietnam War's expansion into Cambodia. Eight guardsmen were indicted ...
Apr. 30 was the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. May 4 was the 55th anniversary of the day in 1970 ...
The National Guard fired tear gas to disperse the crowd of students gathered on the commons, May 4, 1970. Photo courtesy of Kent State University. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the day ...
and three other books. In the run-up to the anniversary of the infamous May 4, 1970 killings, The Kent Stater—Kent State University's student newspaper—reported that free speech would be ...
This weekend now marks 55 years since that day. "The campus community and visitors will gather at noon on the May 4 site at the Kent State Commons to commemorate the moment that gunfire erupted 55 ...