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Kent State shooting: Media
American history [1970]
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Kent State shooting
Ohio National Guardsmen moving across the Commons toward Taylor Hall at Kent (Ohio)...
News Service May 4 photographs. Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
burned Kent State ROTC building
Crowd in front of the burned ROTC building, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970.
May 4 Collection, Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives; photograph, Frank Smith
Kent State shootings
The site of the Kent State shootings, showing the path followed by the Ohio National...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Kent State shootings
An injured student lying where he was shot by Ohio National Guardsmen, who look on,...
May 4 Collection, Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives
Kent State shootings
Cover of Newsweek magazine from May 18, 1970, addressing the Kent State...
© Newsweek/IBT Media
Kent State shootings commemoration vigil
Man and woman holding a candle at the spot where Jeffrey Miller died at a vigil for...
May 4 Collection, Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives
May 4 Memorial
May 4 Memorial, commemorating the Kent State shootings, Kent, Ohio.
May 4 Collection, Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives
Kent State gym annex protest
“Remember Kent State” sticker pasted over a sign denying access to the Memorial Gym...
May 4 Collection, Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives; photograph, Deborah Andersen
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