Kent State shootings

When

4 May 1970

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

4

Coordinates

41.15° N, 81.34° W

Description

1970 shootings in Kent, Ohio, US during student-led protest of Vietnam War

1970 shootings in Kent, Ohio, US

The Kent State shootings were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, United States. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces, as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft…

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio, are killed and nine wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen at a protest against the U.S.…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Kent-State-Massaker: Während Protesten gegen den Vietnamkrieg werden in Ohio, USA, auf dem Campus der Kent State University vier Studenten von…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Расстрел в Кентском университете — национальная гвардия открыла огонь по мирной демонстрации студентов, протестовавших против вторжения армии США в Камбоджу,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Masacre de la Universidad Estatal de Kent, Ohio”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “オハイオ州にて、ケント州立大学銃撃事件が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page