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Kent State 1970

The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. There were 28 guards who admitted to firing on top of the hill, 25 of these guards fired 55 rounds into the air and into the ground, 2 of the guards fired .45cal pistol shots, 2 into the crowd, and 3 into the air, one guard fired a birdshot into the air (Russell was also hit with a shotgun's birdshot, some believe that some of the shot may have ricocheted off of a tree and hit him). The guardsmen fired 61 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis

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