4 Dead in Ohio

Unretouched original version of John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the National Guard.
After Richard Nixon announced the escalation of the Vietman War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970, students in universities across the country began protesting the war in earnest. Kent State students had rallied on May 1st peacefully on The Commons. Later that evening, riots broke out in town and about 100 protesters were dispersed by police. On May 2nd, arsonists lit fire to the ROTC building on campus, pelting firefighters fighting the blaze with rocks and destroying their equipment. Kent's mayor had already reached out to the governor to declare a state of emergency on campus, the first guardsmen arrived late in the evening, arrests were made and order was restored. On May 3rd, another protest was dispersed by the troops and a sit-in in downtown Kent was broken up at 11 P.M. that evening. On May 4th at noon approximately 2000 students gathered, 77 guardsmen with little training in crowd control advanced on the students with bayonets fixed on their weapons, the crowd retreated and began to break up. As the troops began tor retreat and regroup, a small group of hooligans advanced on them pelting them with rocks and spent tear-gas containers. Noone knows for sure what happened next, but 29 of the 77 troops opened fire for 13 seconds, a total of 67 rounds were fired.
Killed:
Allison Krause
Jeffrey Glen Miller
Sandra Lee Scheuer
William Knox Schroeder
Wounded:
Thomas Mark Grace
Joseph Lewis Jr.
John R. Cleary
Alan Canfora
Dean Kahler
Douglas Wrentmore
James Dennis Russell
Robert Stamps
Donald Scott MacKenzie