Today in 1970, four students died while protesting the Vietnam war, in what would later be called the Kent State massacre. Several days after President Nixon announced plans for a U.S. attack in Vietnam, tensions flared for an already unpopular war. Such unrest found its way on to college campuses across America, as student protesters voiced their opinion. One such campus was Kent State University in Ohio where students set fire to the ROTC building. Concerned about the direction the event was going toward, Ohio Governor James Rhodes called in the national Guard. Upon arrival, the National guard was harassed by the protesters, forcing them to shoot into the crowd which left four students dead and 11 others wounded. The event however, didn’t lessen protest acroos the country in fact, it created more of them.
