Kent State University Bombing Research Paper

Picture this. You’re at a peaceful anti-war protest on a college campus in Ohio. Then national guards show up armed and ready to threaten the protesters, whom are college students, or even stop them. To find out about the tragedy on that awful day, you need to know how it started, what happened and who did it, and what happened for the aftermath and why we still know of it today.

To begin, there is always a reason for protesting no matter what it is. First there what a bombing performed by the United States military on Cambodia. The bombing was an expansion of the vietnam war into Cambodia, which caused outrage on the citizens of United States. Across the country, there were protests by students on college campuses, universities, and high schools. Overall, the protests attracted over four million students and over four hundred fifty universities and high schools. From all the protest, in Ohio at Kent State University, national guards showed up to the campus to end the protest there. The guards executed their plan to silence the protester. Sadly, there was a horrible occurrence caused by the military that outraged students. …show more content…
National guards fired at unarmed, peacefully protesting students. They fired sixty-seven bullets in thirteen seconds. From the shots fired, it scared the students away, which was their plan. After firing into the crowd of students, there were four students killed and ten others wounded. Before they shot at the young citizens, they kept trying to force them away back to their dormitories, but it didn't work. They then executed their plan to officially stop the protesting on that campus. The ones behind the shooting obviously doesn’t care about the lives of