Actual+Outcome+Page

=
Governor Rhodes decided to send in the National Guard to keep the protests under control at Kent State University. The guard arrived on campus about 10 pm on Saturday May 2, 1970. When they arrived, the guardsmen were immediately put into action keeping the students under control. THE LARGE, WOODEN ROTC BUILDING WAS "ENGULFED IN FLAMES, with students cutting the hoses of firemen sent to the scene” (Phillips). The students were driven back from their protests that night with violence and tear gas; the people who witnessed this were outraged. The next day, Sunday, May 3rd, over 1000 guardsmen occupied the campus, which made the area feel like a war zone, however, THE DAY WAS QUIET. Governor Rhodes arrived at Kent State that day with a furious attitude. ===== “At a press conference, he issued a provocative statement calling campus protestors the worst type of people in America and stating that every force of law would be used to deal with them.” (Lewis). Although he banned rallies and protests, the students didn’t listen and that night again was full of tension between the guards and the protesters, DESPITE THE NEW CURFEW that had been set for students.

=
On Monday, May 4th, over 3000 people gathered on the campus at Kent State University to hold a previously called for anti-war rally. The police had banned the rally and an officer desperately tried to calm the protestors down using a bullhorn. He was greeted with several rocks being thrown at him by the people, now more angered. The officer, seeing no effect, got into a Jeep, along with a few guardsmen and drove across campus telling the protestors to disperse. More rocks and violence occurs and the heads guardsman told his men to “lock and load their weapons” (Lewis). The guardsmen fired tear gas into the crowd and began to march across the Commons to try to get people to calm down. the students began to crowd the guards up over "Blanket Hill and into the practice football field below. The students were violent towards the guardsmen and began hurling rocks and other objects at them. The frantic and desperate national guardsmen started retracing their steps and went back up Blanket Hill. Suddenly, at the top of the hill, they turned and fired their guns at the students. For 13 seconds, the guards fired at the startled =====

=
protesters. There were a total of four casualties at the Kent State Shootings: Jeffery Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer. Kent State University closed immediately after the massacre and remained closed until summer 1970. Word of the shootings traveled “like a shock wave across the nation and the world” (Phillips). Almost two weeks later, on May 15, 1970, two students were shot and killed during a protest at Jackson State University. A few months later, THE GUARDSMEN WERE AGAIN ASKED TO SETTLE A PROTEST AT Ohio State University, THEY ENDED UP SHOOTING SEVERAL, INNOCENT PEOPLE. On top of that, “more than 900 colleges and some 80% of academia-closed before the end of May 1970 due to protests” (Lewis). The next month, Daniel Ellsburg leaked the “PENTAGON PAPERS” which were a series of documents containing secret information about the Vietnamese War, which exposed corruption in the government even more. =====

Back