May 4, 1970: A day that went down in history. Author: Ryan Haidet Updated: 12:03 PM EDT May 4, 2021
KENT, Ohio
Editor s note: Video at the top of this story was originally published in 2020 as Kent State marked
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Kent State University is remembering the deadly shooting that shook the country when the National Guard opened fire on campus on May 4, 1970. It was an unforgettable tragedy that claimed the lives of four people: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder.
Now, 51 years later, the May 4 shooting is being commemorated with a series of virtual events Tuesday amid ongoing COVID-19 concerns.
The ceremony includes the debut of a video tribute that focuses on the students who were also wounded in the shooting: Alan Canfora, John Cleary, Thomas Grace, Dean Kahler, Joseph Lewis, Donald Mackenzie, James Russell, Robert Stamps and Douglas Wrentmore. The video features nine new markers that have been installed on
Markers installed in remembrance of students injured, killed at Kent State
The new markers were installed earlier this year and help give perspective to where the wounded students were standing as well as the location of the Ohio National Guard troops who fired the shots.
“They should have been installed a long time ago,” Jacobs said of the markers. “I love the fact that they re there and it shows who was killed and how far away they were from where the National Guard was.”
While people came to campus to remember and reflect in person, the official commemoration of the 51st anniversary was held virtually, featuring talks by former students who were hit and injured by some of the 67 shots the Ohio National Guard fired off that afternoon.
Kent State honors 4 students killed, 9 wounded on May 4, 1970 By Jennifer Conn Akron UPDATED 5:40 AM ET May. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:15 PM ET May. 03, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:15 PM EDT May. 03, 2021
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KENT, Ohio Tuesday marks the 51
st anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University. Four students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer were killed and nine students were injured when the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd on campus during an anti-war protest.
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Four Kent State students were killed and nine students injured in 1970 when the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd on campus during an anti-war protest
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Syracuse, N.Y. Nearly 40% of Central New York nursing home employees are still not vaccinated against Covid-19, four months after the government made them a top priority in its massive vaccine roll-out.
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In this May 4, 1970 photo, Mary Ann Vecchio cries out as she kneels next to the body of student Jeffrey Miller on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. National Guardsmen killed four when they fired into a crowd of young demonstrators protesting the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. (AP Photo/John Filo)
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Print article Last May, when Mary Ann Vecchio watched the video of George Floyd’s dying moments, she felt herself plummet through time and space - to a day almost exactly 50 years earlier. On that afternoon in 1970, the world was just as riveted by an image that showed the life draining out of a young man on the ground, this one a black-and-white still photo. Mary Ann was at the center of that photo, her arms raised in anguish, begging for help.