Kent State Massacre

On April 30th 1970, President Richard Nixon announced we would be invading Cambodia and thus would officially be involved in the Vietnam War. Outraged poured in from across the nation especially on college campuses. One that was particularly opposed to the issue was the students at Kent State. They held a school wide protest that started out as a peaceful demonstration but slowly got out of hand. The state of Ohio immediately declared Marshall Law and chaos ensued.

The National Guard was brought in to defuse the situation but this would turn out to be a fatal mistake. On May 4th, twenty-eight of the ninety guardsmen posted on campus opened fire into the crowd of students. Four of these students were killed and nine were severely injured in the incident. The nation was outraged. In the aftermath, eight of the twenty-eight were indicted but all charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. It is a fact that everyone has a right to peaceful protest and when it gets out of hand it crucial that police or military defuse it but how could it ever be imaginable to fire into a crowd of unarmed students. Whether it was a mob or not this kind of animalistic behavior was not only tolerated but backed by the justice system as all the shooters walked away scott free.