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queenklu:sixth-light:saurons-optometrist:captain-rez:solarpunkcast:anarchistcuddles:ineversurrender:Kent State University“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of 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 Cambodia by United States military forces. 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.[6][7]”“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,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lolhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootingsDon’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…Another picture from Kent State.But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just thereFun fact: this shooting is so little-known outside the US that when it was depicted in the Watchmen credits I thought the fact the students got shot was meant to indicate the dystopia starting, not that protesting students had historically been murdered by National Guardsmen. My mom was going to Oberlin at the time of the Kent State shooting, literally 60 miles away. I asked her about it again tonight. She said it was the scariest–and strangest–experience of her life. “I could have been at that rally,” she said, “They had buses to take students to other protests all the time. I’d gone to so many others.”Afterward, she got her hands on as many papers covering the massacre as she could from the surrounding area–all of them had conflicting stories. Not just how many students were killed or how many shots were fired, the Chicago Tribune even said that two National Guardsmen had been killed too. And every single one of the articles said the college students started it. Every article said that these students deserved to be shot. “They cancelled school for the rest of the year. They didn’t know what to do with us,” she said. “In two weeks I was back in Wisconsin and it was like nothing had ever happened. Nobody knew about it, or cared.”She also talked about the Jacksonville State killings, which never made it to the papers at all. “I came from a family of people who loved school. And suddenly everyone hated us. Not just hated us but wanted us to die.” -- source link
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