Kent State Massacre - Kent, OH
N 41° 09.047 W 081° 20.638
17T E 471137 N 4555552
After the Kent State Massacre, a student strike of eight million students across the US shut down schools nationwide & the event further divided the country along political lines regarding the Vietnam War.
Waymark Code: WM2HDR
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 11/05/2007
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Many young people, including college students and teachers, were concerned about being drafted to fight in a war that they strongly opposed. The expansion of that war into another country appeared to them to have increased that risk. Across the country, campuses erupted in protests in what Time called "a nation-wide student strike", setting the stage for the events of early May 1970.
The tension regarding the War and protests combined to cause the events of May 4, 1970, in which four people were shot to death by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The photgraphic images of that day resonate to this day.
Disaster Date: 05/04/1970
Date of dedication: 05/04/1990
Memorial Sponsors: Kent State University
Disaster Type: Sociological
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Parking Coordinates: Not Listed
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