Troops fired on Kent State students in 1970. Survivors see echoes in today’s campus protests

Troops fired on Kent State students in 1970. Survivors see echoes in today's campus protest movement

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press KENT, Ohio (AP) — Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970. Dean Kahler was at that protest against the Vietnam War, and was left paralyzed by a soldier’s bullet. Now the shootings have taken on fresh relevance as thousands of students are arrested in campus protests …

Kent State survivors see echoes in today's campus protests

Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970. Dean Kahler was at

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