Government or official record
Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest
ERIC
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Political unrest · 4 May 1970Open article references →
The Kent State Shootings
Kent State Commons and Blanket Hill shooting site · United States
Why editors use it hereContemporary federal commission investigation of Kent State and national campus conflict.
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On 4 May 1970, Ohio National Guard members fired sixty-seven rounds in thirteen seconds at Kent State University students during a protest against the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia.
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Trigger and conditions
A noon rally proceeded despite a university ban.
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Uncertainty
No order to fire has been conclusively established.
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Why it matters
The shootings show how ambiguous command, loaded weapons, hostile rhetoric, crowd control, and fear can collapse into state violence within seconds.
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