The Kent State Murders

On May 4th, 1970, a group of National Guardsmen turned, and from a safe distance of 60 feet, fired 67 times into a crowd of student protesters on the Kent State university campus.

Four students lost their lives, others were severely injured, with anything from wounds to the extremities to paralysis that would last the rest of their lives.

Although the identities of the National Guardsmen who fired are known, as are the identities of all in the chain of command right on up to the governor (who, on the previous day, proclaimed that he intended to "eradicate the problem" when speaking of the protesters), no criminal or civil action ever resulted in any type of conviction whatsoever in this matter.

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