56th anniversary of the Kent State shootings

𝑺𝒌𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒔 🤔18

Never forget and keep the memory alive. As us old geezers age out, the lessons of this tragedy must continue to be taught and passed on. In the same way that the majority of people have embraced authoritarianism without understanding the horrific history it brings about for all.

Skot Avdem18

What if you knew her and Found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know?

Brilliant Bill14

One of the great, and never mentioned, ironies of this... Most of those in that Guard at the time were in it as a way to avoid going to Vietnam. In essence, they were legal draft dodgers killing anti-war protesters. I was a year back from Vietnam when this happened, a bit biased, yes.

Michael V. Nixon12

‘Ohio’ · Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Live, 1970) youtu.be/VOFNLQtEWZ8?...

LindaVistaLinda10

I remember the day and still think of it often. Never underestimate how bad it can get.

Smith Premier No. 4 Blind typewriter 19049

I remember that as if it happen yesterday. I told myself the Vietnam War is over that day, a spike was put in America's heart that day.

claudiayer.bsky.social7

I remember, right outside of Lake Hall, my dorm.

Denali FOREVER 🎨🖌🐈‍⬛7

When they vilify boomers they forget how many of us were in the streets for equal rights voting rights and just to be allowed to live our lives as who we are. Many were brutalized doing so & some were killed. Almost everything fought for by so many those days is going down or at risk. It's brutal.

Gayle S 🦋 🌊 😈6

Was in high school. Teachers were crying along with students So many young men dying in Vietnam...and for what??? Had a mass protest/ sit-in the next day. Fuck the governor of Ohio...what an asshole Rhodes was

Scandal from Bohemia5

I stopped there when traveling cross country in 2022. Things were still pandemic-y, so it was me and that whole area to myself. It's way smaller than it looks in photos, and I had to immediately leave the spot from where the Guard fired. I'm not woo, but it felt like hate

Pyperkub3

Hmm. I counted about 14 rings of the bell in the clip - is that of any commemorative significance?

ntm3

Too bad Kent State University effectively disbanded the student-led May 4th Task Force after they supported the Black Lives Matter movement and honered victims of police violence such as Tamir Rice in 2016.

David from Wingett Run3

On this Fourth we remember the State murdering it's children not some damn movie

Blue States Secede3

It was the result of a political stunt gone bad by Governor Rhodes. May he rot in hell.

John G2

Sorry I missed you, I was hanging back in the shade with Dean Kahler.

Boone Daniels2

Kind of breaks me a little bit to think that the people who had to live through that should have to live in such dark times again

Rue McClanahan’s illegitimate husband2

I was one year old. Kent State is approx 35-40 minutes from my home. It hits hard…

Carol2

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming.....

Rachel Harriss PhD, RN, PHN5

I remember this well...thank you for posting it. Our fight goes on.

Richard J Laya4

History repeats itself. Just not Ohio, but Minnesota.

Cat ❌ 👑4

I remember it well. I was still in high school but we were all protesting against the war. I am shocked by the people who said they should have all been killed. I did not know that back then. This clip brought me to tears.

Nancy Mueller4

I remember when this happened. It was horrific.

William’s Incredible Dream4

Like Trump, Nixon’s campaign was based on ending military conflict in Vietnam. We know how that went. We now see how this is going. As usual it’s the venom of the citizenry that keeps the momentum and intensity of the insanity. Looks like little has changed since I was 13.

Gentry4

Now they shoot ICU nurses and moms.

Sandy B 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇨🇦3

Yep I don't remember what happened last week but I remember this like it was yesterday 😪

"Volunteers of America"3

I was 16-years-old, and my older brother took me with him. We weren't ever expecting anything like what happened. It has stayed with me my whole life.

Steph K2

I was 11 when this happened. I still remember seeing their bodies laying there after being shot.

Joy🦋💙🇺🇦🫶2

I remember it well. I was absolutely shocked! Protests against the Vietnam war as well as for fair housing were ongoing all over my city and state.

Paul Boland7

Tin soldiers and Nixon comin’ ……… Four dead in Ohio

Kathye Hamilton6

The pic was taken by a student photographer, John Filo. The girl, Mary Ann Vecchio, had run away from a bad home life in Fl. The Fl govenor accused her of being "part of a nat'l organized conspiracy of professional agitators" and blamed her for the student deaths. She was 14.

alid2.bsky.social2

Kent State does a wonderful job with their museum and memorial. They provide so much background and context. If you are ever in Ohio, it’s very powerful.

Zeen from Texas2

I remember it well. I was a senior in high school. Stunning. Still.

AdakWillie2

The kid in the next room in my UMaine dormitory had graduated from high school with Jeff Miller. Terrible time.

Andrew j 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2

and 10 days later there was Jackson State College, Mississippi. 2 dead and 12 injured.

davidross1980.bsky.social2

I was 14 and that event made me a peace loving hippie.

Rosecrucian Roeth3

The us has a history of violence against it's own people.

MissMerkin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2

It was tragic. I was 17 and I remember it vividly.

Rebba.bsky.social5

I lived outside of Pittsburgh. Two of my older brothers were war resisters/ draft resisters and the FBI was at my kitchen table negotiating a deal to turn in my brothers. Civil unrest was everywhere. I remember crying so hard, so rebellious and so young in my teens. My dad kept saying, “Fuck Nixon!”

Brooklynwatch3

I remember like it was yesterday

Tikatoo142

I so well remember this.

Missygirl2

Yeah .,Nixon .. wasn’t even half as crazy as trump

jaguarthrone.bsky.social4

I was a college sophomore when this event radicalized me...this, and the murders at Jackson State, convinced me that it's not enough to be willing to die for a cause because the pigs are willing to oblige. For real change, a person needs to be willing to kill the oppressor.

Buddahcjcc2

I mean, Id argue Trump getting the military to make soldiers police US cities is worse, overall, for the country. Also we just basically had that, twice, maybe more with ICE, and look at the difference in just overall reaction in general between Kent St, and Alex Pretti

Meidas_SiobhanOG2

🎶 Tin Soldiers and Nixons commin' 🎶

Scott K2

4 DEAD IN OHIO ---- NEIL YOUNG --

Michael Lindholm9

On the morning of May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio State National Guard, deployed on the order of then Ohio Gov. James Rhodes, opened fire on student demonstrators, killing 4 and wounding 9. /2

Gene J. Mikulka2

I was 7 years old. I still remember this image.

MintzBuck2

Mid-40s and I certainly know this image well. I just don't have dates memorized for a lot of history. A day can be multiple things.

Lisa Noble2

I am very old, but I had somehow not known this was the date. Thank you for the reminder.

Susan Wabuda2

remembering, understanding, but not that old ☺️

M. Belanger2

My mom was there, so this was an influential part of my childhood I was looking through articles for the best link to post on the anniversary – only to discover KSU’s own website about it has been recently retooled in such a way as to deflect all blame to the students It’s a chilling revision

Ty Morgan2

I remember that day like it happened yesterday.I was in junior high at the time and it felt like the world was ending.This event 2 years after the murder of MLK and RFK as well as the police riot at the DNC in Chicago,terrifying.