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Old 09-24-2017, 12:35 PM
 
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<<The eighth episode, titled "The History of the World," airs 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, and concludes with the May 4 shootings that left four dead and nine wounded.>>

Visit to Kent State moved Ken Burns to expand 'Vietnam War' segment on May 4 shootings | cleveland.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

I was familiar with that section of the Kent State campus and I remember being stunned when I heard the news of the shootings. I was at a campus where the university president had refused to allow the National Guard on campus even before the shootings fearful of a similar outcome. The university police department put in an incredible amount of overtime.

<<The shootings led to protests on college campuses throughout the United States, and a student strike, causing more than 450 campuses across the country to close with both violent and non-violent demonstrations.[10] A common sentiment was expressed by students at New York University with a banner hung out of a window that read, "They Can't Kill Us All.">>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Members of the "Greatest Generation" generally applauded the shootings, while the "Baby Boomers" on the firing line, now at home as well as in Vietnam, often had heated words for their parents' willingness to send a generation to slaughter in a half-fought and ill-conceived war. I well remember a few of those conversations, which shocked my parents as I generally was very conservative politically.

<<The four victims did nothing that justified their death. They threw no rocks nor were they politically radical. No sniper fired at the National Guard. No investigative agency has yet found any evidence sufficient to support such a theory. The guardsmen fired without orders to do so. Some aimed deliberately at students; others fired in panic or in follow-the-leader style. >>

https://www.may4archive.org/aftermath.shtml
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