Four Dead in Ohio: Remembering the Victims and Legacy of the Kent State Massacre
On May 4, 1970, 4 students were killed on the Kent State University campus during a peace rally against the Vietnam War's expansion into Cambodia, as well as the presence of the National Guard on-campus. Credit: Stephen Kaledecker/Public Domain Pictures Two of those students, Allison Krause, 19, and Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, were participating in the protest, which involved over 300 others when 28 troops began firing. They went through 67 rounds total in 13 seconds, killing not only them, but two other students. Nine students were also wounded, with one becoming permanently paralyzed. The other two students, Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, and William Knox Schroeder, 19, were not participating in the protest, and happened to be walking to their next classes over 300 feet (91 meters) away from the firing line. Scheuer died on campus, but Schroeder died almost an hour later at the Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna while undergoing surgery. He was shot in the chest near his seventh...