Kent state masacre

The invasion of Cambodia was one of the things, which lead to the protesting of students, which then lead to the Kent State massacre. President Nixon ordered the Cambodia invasion. He ordered our troops to clear out the North Vietnamese and Vietcong supply centers. This didn’t sit to well with about 1.5 million college students around the U.S. Students protested outside there colleges for a few days which caused about 1,200 campuses to close down. Kent State was one of the colleges that had students protesting. The protest started out as students innocently gathering around the campus. Then they started to get out of hand. It all began when students tried to burn down the R.O.T.C. Building. This forced the mayor to call in the National Guard. Then on May 3rd officers were forced to throw teargas in

The four victims of this tragedy were Alison Krause, Jeffery Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder. A sad thing to hear about this event is that two of the four students who were killed were not even in the protest (The Americans reconstruction through the 20th century 749). They were just students going to there next class. Along with the four that were killed there was nine others wounded. The injuries ranged from being paralyzed and having to spend the rest of there lives in a wheel chair to just being shot in the arm, and being better in a couple of months. However, no matter what kind of physical pain some of these students went through, no pain will be greater then the pain of having to remember seeing people shot and killed for no reason.

The worst part of this whole thing is that no one got in trouble. None of the guardsman that fired the shots was in trouble. There were a few theories about who fired first. One was that there was a mysterious sniper who shot first but they could never prove that because there was no evidence (Gordon 1). Another is that one guard just turned around and started to fir

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