The U.S. Gov. was directly to blame for Kent State. The shootings was a lesson the Gov. wanted to get across that worked very well. Try to stop the war machine and we will kill you. The same was true about Waco (David Koresh) The Gov. wanted to establish that people stay with the Christian religion as it is or they will burn you and your children to death. In Jesus's time they hung them on crosses.
I happened to be around in 1970 (and was a university student at the time) so I can speak from personal experience. We blamed the policies of the Nixon administration, which had needlessly prolonged the Vietnamese War, for the Kent State shootings.
04 May 1970 (the invasion occurred on 01 May 1970).
This event occurred May 4, 1970.
A distant cousin by the name of jerry rupp was involved with a what crime at kent state in the 1970 shooting at the school. What was that crime?
A Shooting at Kent State University in 1970, where guardsmen opened fire on students protesting, leaving 4 students dead.
Shooting at the Moon - album - was created in 1970-04.
The Young Americans - 1970 TV was released on: USA: 12 March 1970
Richard Nixon was the President. The tragedy occurred on May 4, 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War.
Ohio Guardsmen shot 4 students at Kent State on 04 May 1970, protesting Nixon's Cambodian invasion.
The growing threat of terrorism was not an issues that Americans faced in the late 1970's.
The cast of The Young Americans - 1970 includes: The Committee as Themselves Lorne Greene as himself Tiny Tim as himself The Young Americans as Themselves
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