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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 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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-[[File:Images2848.jpg|right]]The Shooting at Kent University of 1970 is a reference to a group of National army officials counterprotesting a group of Ohio students. It is unclear whether it wa a mission from the president or if it was their own actions. However, in this there were four students that were killed when the militia violently attacked the protesters. This is the topic on Neil Young's song "Ohio".
+{{Important}}[[File:Kent_State_shootings.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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