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On Thursday, April
30, 1970 President Richard Nixon announces that an “incursion” into Cambodia
has been launched by United States combat forces. Over the weekend
spontaneous protests sprung up at college campuses across the United States.On
Monday, May 4, 28 Ohio National Guardsmen fire into a crowd of students
at Kent State University. Four students are killed and nine
others injured.
The deaths triggered a rush of marches and violent protests throughout America aimed at the actions of the authorities. In the long run, the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State shootings, more than any other event, would galvanize public opinion against the Vietnam war. It is Tuesday, May 5, 1970 At a prominent University in
Washington, D.C., Students and some radical faculty members have seized
control of a building as part of a protest against the Kent State killings.
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