Kent State massacre by Andrew Baker

Student

andrewbaker4_2 — 2025-05-03 04:38:10 UTC

A Student shot in the massacre

photo from https://allthatsinteresting.com/kent-state-massacre

Summary

andrewbaker4_2 — 2025-05-03 04:41:04 UTC

A protest what happened on May 4, 1970. It was a student protest that was opposing further involvement into Cambodia of the Vietnam war. The protest was by students from Kent state when the national guard was called to control the protest, they opened fire killing 4 and wounding 9 students

Map of the Kent state campus

andrewbaker4_2 — 2025-05-03 04:44:32 UTC

The protest was in the middle to southern side of the campus

Map from PropertyRecord.com - Public Property Records

Map of the shooting

andrewbaker4_2 — 2025-05-03 04:46:08 UTC

A closer up specific map of where the students were shot

Map from https://catalog.archives.gov/id/596837

The National Guard Responding

andrewbaker4_2 — 2025-05-03 04:48:30 UTC

The location is important as it shows military level force being used against a peaceful college protest in the US. Which shown light on how far a state could go to silence the opposition of the Vietnam war

Newpaper article the next day

andrewbaker4_2 — 2025-05-03 04:50:46 UTC

This is the cover of the New York times May 5, 1970, the day after the massacre

Photo from https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2020/05/05/kent-state-massacre--50-years-later