
A Fifty Year Remembrance of Kent State - An Ohio Tragedy That Shook The Nation
By Bill Woods May 4th is remembered by many older Ohioans as a day in1970 when a tragedy at Kent State University shook the nation and garnered feature stories in The New York Times and Time Magazine. Four student protesters were shot and killed that day by members of the Ohio National Guard. Campus protests opposing the Nixon Administration's invasion of Cambodia a few days earlier had sprung up across the country, and Ohio's Governor Jim Rhodes had called out the National G