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On May 4, 1970, four unarmed anti-war protesters at Kent State University were killed by members of the and because this massacre took place in small-town Ohio, it “echoed even more loudly than it might have at one of the capitals of campus protest such as Berkeley or Columbia.” Today, this event is still remembered as a turning point for national support of the Vietnam War.

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