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This map, prepared for the Commission on Campus Unrest, shows the “the Commons” area on the Kent State Campus, the movement of the National Guardsmen, and the locations where students were shot. By Sunday, more than 1,000 National Guardsmen have arrived on campus. The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives, Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Learn more on our privacy and legal page. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives. The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students in Kent, Ohio, by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. May 3.
In the midst of Vietnam War, President Nixon had decided to initiate the Cambodian campaign. Add all page(s) of this document to activity: This map, prepared for the Commission on Campus Unrest, shows the “the Commons” area on the Kent State Campus, the movement of the National Guardsmen, and the locations where students were shot. Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. WATCH: The Kent State Shootings. DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. This is a printed map detailing the locations of structures, troop movements, bullet hole locations, and locations of casualties at the Kent State shooting of May 4, 1970. Governor Rhodes flies to Kent …