May 04 2009
Four Dead in Ohio
On this date, May 4, 1970 the Kent State shootings took place on the campus of Kent State in Ohio at 12:22 in the afternoon. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. However, other students who were shot had merely been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance. The incident became the lightening rod of the anti-war movement and protests erupted across the United States. The event was chronicalled in the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song “Ohio”.
