Editor's note: This seven-part series relives the days leading up to the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, through the lives of some of those most affected. Today, the events of ...

As President Trump sends National Guard troops to Los Angeles, a military historian explains why crowd control is one of the Guard’s most challenging and dangerous missions.

Saturday night, May 2, 1970, Bruce Meirowitz, a 19-year-old Kent State freshman from North Massapequa, was watching a movie in his dorm when a friend told him the campus was on fire. President ...

The danger in Kent State was no one paid a price for it. The 4 were murdered in violation of the law and the Constitution. In the end the cause they died for was proven right.

Demonstrators at Kent State University flee tear gas fired by National Guardsmen ... during which firebombings of a civil-rights headquarters and King’s brother’s hotel room had sparked riots, and ...

An Ohio Historical Marker for Kent State University: May 4, 1970, by Taylor Hall tells the events and lead up to the shooting. The shooting from the Ohio National Guard killed four and wounded nine.

Examples include riots in Detroit in 1967, Washington DC in 1968, Los Angeles in 1965 and 1992, ... Photojournalist says Kent state was a turning point in covering protests.

The Ohio National Guard fired indiscriminately into a crowd of students at Kent State University during protests against the Vietnam War 55 years ago this month.

The shooting at Kent State demonstrates why force should be an absolute last resort in dealing with protests — and one fraught with grave risks. Brian VanDeMark is a professor of history at the ...

Examples include riots in Detroit in 1967, Washington DC in 1968, Los Angeles in 1965 and 1992, ... At Kent State, after a noontime anti-war rally on campus on May 1, ...

The focus of the discussion is the legacy of the 1970 Hardhat Riot, which was sparked by the May 4 shooting. Kuhn will be joined by Kent State history professors Thomas Grace and Mary Ann Heiss and ...

Examples include riots in Detroit in 1967, Washington DC in 1968, Los Angeles in 1965 and 1992, ... At Kent State, after a noontime anti-war rally on campus on May 1, ...