Kent State Shootings

What can colleges and universities across the country learn from Kent State's example, when 13 students were shot and four were killed in 1970?

Kent State's annual May 4 commemoration is just weeks away, and organizers want to make it an engaging and relevant experience for a wide audience.

Alan Canfora, who protested the Vietnam War during demonstrations on the Kent State University campus in May 1970, and was shot in the wrist when National…

Fifty years ago, the Ohio National Guard killed four unarmed Kent State students during a peace rally opposing the expansion of the Vietnam War. While it…

Gov. Mike DeWine began his usual press conference Monday with a moment of silence to remember the four Kent State students who lost their lives 50 years…

It was 50 years ago today that Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on protesting students at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine. The…

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the day National Guardsmen opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War. Four students…

In the weeks and months following May 4, 1970, life for Kent State students changed completely. The university responded to the shootings by halting on-campus classes and creating a type of pre-Internet distance learning for students, and students and faculty had to change the way they learned and taught. The students were, of course, emotionally changed by the experience as well, and the approach to mental health care at the time was quite different than today.

Kent State University has officially recognized the landmark status of the site where four students were killed by National Guardsmen in 1970. The 17...

On May 4, 1970 a Vietnam protest rally ended in tragedy as Ohio Army National Guard troops opened fire and killed four students and injured nine others at…