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Two New Perspectives on the Kent State Shootings

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Just as the horrific 1968 My Lai massacre is the most notorious battlefront incident of the Vietnam War, the May 4, 1970, National Guard shootings at Kent State University—killing four students and wounding nine—is the most notorious homefront incident. Within 13 seconds that day, 28 Ohio National Guardsmen fired 67 rounds into a crowd of …

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