Northwestern University students, protesting against Vietnam War and the shooting of four Kent State University students, gather outside the Rebecca Crown center on the Evanston campus on May 7, 1970.

The shooting's legacy on Kent State campus activism Enlarge this image Alan and Chic Canfora, among others, take place in a panel discussion during the 15th Annual May 4 Commemoration in 1985.

The description of the nation, then split over the Vietnam War, leading up to the 1970 tragedy echo today's politics and divisions in many ways. In “Kent State: An American Tragedy,” historian ...

Around 3,000 people gathered for an anti-war rally on the Commons of Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Ohio National Guardsman, who had been called to the campus after protesters and local ...

Decades after Kent State shooting, the tragic legacy shapes its activism. The university where 13 student protesters were killed or injured during the Vietnam War era worries that other schools ...

There are no US troops fighting in Israel's war in Gaza, but many US citizens have lost family members there. Israel's assault on Gaza was triggered by the Oct. 7 attack by Islamist Hamas ...

The biggest mass shooting on a college campus was at Virginia Tech in 2008, ... who were breaking up a protest against President Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. ...

Florida State increasing security measures at commencement events following campus shooting. Updated: Apr. 24, 2025 ... 2025 marks five decades since the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War.

2025 marks five decades since the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. For the local veterans who fought in that polarizing conflict, it's still difficult to think back on those years ...