Kent State University Incident
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The End of the Innocence
After a long period of fighting a defensive war in Vietnam, on April 29,
1970, President Richard Nixon launched a full scale attack in Cambodia,
which greatly accelerated America¹s involvment in this conflict. The
reaction from the American college student population was ....
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.... was burned
to the ground. When the firemen arrived, their hoses were taken by
students and used aganist them. At that point Governor James Rhodes called
for the National Guard to come in and protect the campus(Four Deaths at
Noon).
The following day Kent State University was under the protection² of the
Ohio National Guard. Around noon on that day, students fromed in protest.
They were told to disperse, but refused. The first action of the National
Guard was to release tear-gas grena ....
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