Kent State Administration and Student Body Views on the Kent State Shootings

as protestors, National Guardsmen and on lookers fill the Kent State Commons area on May 4, 1970.” “Kent State University students have a sit in at Lincoln and Main Streets in Kent on May 3, 1970.” “Students return tear gas canisters to the Ohio National Guardsmen…on May 4, 1970.” “In one of Vietnam era’s most enduring images, Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the body of Kent State student Jeffrey Miller in a parking lot at Taylor Hall.” “A crowd fills Water Street on May 1, 1970, during a downtown Kent disturbance in which business windows were smashed.” “National Guardsmen, Kent police officers and a civilian are part of the May 3, 1970, disturbance.” “Students gather around the Victory Bell on the Kent State Commons in 1970 for a rally to protest the Vietnam War.” “Protestors demonstrate in 1977 over the construction of a Kent State gymnasium annex near the site of the 1970 shootings.” “On the morning of May 2, 1970, some KSU students assisted with the downtown clean up. Rumors of radical activities were widespread, and KSU’s ROTC building was believed to be the target of militant students that evening. During the Vietnam war, students on many college campuses opposed the presence of ROTC and often were successful in forcing the removal of ROTC from their campuses.”

“The charred ROTC building is fenced off Governor Rhodes states in his speech to the public states, “I want to assure you that we’re going to employ every force of law that we have under our authority. Any student caught throwing a rock at my form of law enforcement will be charged with a felony and will be dismissed from KSU without a hearing and cannot enter another State University in the state of Ohio.” “On May 2, 1970, Kent Mayor LeRoy Satron Places a call to Gov. James A. Rhodes requesting the Ohio National Guard troops to help protect the town. Protestors set fire to the ROTC building that evening.” “President Nixon’s report of a U.S. invasion of Cambodia triggered nationwide protests, including an anti-war rally on the Kent State University Commons on May 1, 1970.” “Riding in a jeep, Kent State Police Officer Harold Rice pleads over a bullhorn for Kent State protestors to disperse just before noon on May 4, 1970.” “At 12:24 p.m. on May 4, 1970, at the crest of Blanket Hill, an estimated 28 guardsmen stop, raise their weapons and begin firing. Over the course of 13 seconds, 61 rounds are fired. Four students are killed and nine are wounded.” “Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes delivers a fiery speech on the campus of Kent State where he called the student protestors, “The worst type of people that we harbor in America.” An evening protest blocked the main intersections and was broken up by guardsmen with tear gas and bayonets.”

The Administration Images on views The Student BodyWilliam Schroeder Sandy Scheuer

In Memory of students killed on May 4, 1970

Jeffrey Miller Allison Krause