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[[File: | {{Important}}[[File:Mary Ann Vecchio Kent State May 4 1970 John Filo Photograph.jpg|right|thumb|John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after the unarmed student was fatally shot by an Ohio National Guardsman.]]The '''Kent State shootings''', also known as the '''May 4 massacre''' or the '''Kent State massacre''', was a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] that took place on May 4, 1970, against unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of neutral Cambodia by the United States military forces, which effectively constituted [[war crimes]]. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. | ||
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, which President [[Richard Nixon]] announced during a television address on April 30 of that year. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance. | |||
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students, and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the [[Vietnam War]]. | |||
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