Updated: 5/4/2009 9:23:56 PM Posted: 5/4/2009 7:51:14 AM
KENT -- Today is the 39th anniversary of the 1970 National Guard shootings that killed four Kent State University students during an anti-war protest.
On May 4, 1970, four students were killed and nine others were wounded, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which then-President Richard Nixon had just announced in a television address on April 30.
Other students who were shot had merely been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.
The event is commemorated in the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song "Ohio."
KSU will hold its annual symposium marking the anniversary.
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