Many Americans believe that the Kent State incident in 1970 was the turning point during the Vietnam War. Anti-war protest towards the beginning of the war began as non-violent protest but slowly became violent. The Kent State incident was a protest gone violent to bring back American troops from Vietnam. No one knows exactly why the guardsmen shot some believe it was a sniper some guardsmen claim to have heard other guardsmen shoot so they shot too. In the article titled (PUT IN FOOTNOTE)“THE MAY 4 SHOOTING AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY” the article talks about what really happened or what was the closest and most accurate to the event. The Kent State incident of 1970 caused a nationwide strike amongst colleges.
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This led to May 4th of 1970 but it didn't just happen there were many things that led to the incident of 1970. This bloody incident shocked America and further divided the nation in two. (FOOTNOTE INSERT) Newsweekly a newspaper company reported on May 18 of 1970 that the May 4th incident was dividing the country. "The shots fired at Kent State were taken by some as a warning that the U.S. might be edging towards the brink of warfare of sorts on the home front". (FOOTNOTE INSERT) The events that lead to this bloody massacre began with Nixon's decision to expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia, which in turn led to nation wide protest in colleges including Kent State. On May 1st of 1970 the day after president Nixon said that we would be expanding the war into cambodia Kent State had a protest on their commons which is a large grassy area towards the middle of their campus. On May 1st they declared another protest on May 4th to fight against sending them to …show more content…
to find the ROTC building ablaze, this building was adjacent to Kent State's commons. No one really knows who did this but people assume it was protesters seeing as they were cheering on the fire and trying to stop firemen from putting out the fire. All of these events led to the kent state shooting, which no one knows who started it and why they did all we know is that 9 got injured and 4 died. The Kent State shooting cause massive strikes amongst students in colleges around the U.S. Many Americans were angered by the fact that the guardsmen fired at the college students and this made them want to hurt the guardsmen because they realized that the guardsmen had live ammo and not dummy rounds. Another incident occurred on (FOOTNOTE) May 14th at Jackson State, which was an all blacks school in Mississippi. During a protest highway patrolmen and police fired automatic weapons into the dormitories killing two black students and wounding nine others. Nothing was ever really found on justifying why they shot at them but this proved the America was still ticked about American troops in Vietnam and the expansion into
This led to May 4th of 1970 but it didn't just happen there were many things that led to the incident of 1970. This bloody incident shocked America and further divided the nation in two. (FOOTNOTE INSERT) Newsweekly a newspaper company reported on May 18 of 1970 that the May 4th incident was dividing the country. "The shots fired at Kent State were taken by some as a warning that the U.S. might be edging towards the brink of warfare of sorts on the home front". (FOOTNOTE INSERT) The events that lead to this bloody massacre began with Nixon's decision to expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia, which in turn led to nation wide protest in colleges including Kent State. On May 1st of 1970 the day after president Nixon said that we would be expanding the war into cambodia Kent State had a protest on their commons which is a large grassy area towards the middle of their campus. On May 1st they declared another protest on May 4th to fight against sending them to …show more content…
to find the ROTC building ablaze, this building was adjacent to Kent State's commons. No one really knows who did this but people assume it was protesters seeing as they were cheering on the fire and trying to stop firemen from putting out the fire. All of these events led to the kent state shooting, which no one knows who started it and why they did all we know is that 9 got injured and 4 died. The Kent State shooting cause massive strikes amongst students in colleges around the U.S. Many Americans were angered by the fact that the guardsmen fired at the college students and this made them want to hurt the guardsmen because they realized that the guardsmen had live ammo and not dummy rounds. Another incident occurred on (FOOTNOTE) May 14th at Jackson State, which was an all blacks school in Mississippi. During a protest highway patrolmen and police fired automatic weapons into the dormitories killing two black students and wounding nine others. Nothing was ever really found on justifying why they shot at them but this proved the America was still ticked about American troops in Vietnam and the expansion into