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A 6 page paper which analyzes the song’s lyrics and the shocking event that inspired them, the massacre of four Kent State college students protesting the Vietnam War. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Holding America accountable for its actions by exercising their constitutional rights as citizens, student protests began being organized in earnest shortly after the announcement that the military was bombing North
Vietnam (Spofford 26). The administration of President Richard Nixon was quick to issue a denial, but then was forced to admit the attacks upon Hanoi, which were rationalized as
"protective reaction strikes" (Spofford 26). Angry student government leaders from thirteen colleges converged on the University of Pennsylvania campus and officially endorsed a National Student Strike against the war
(Spofford 36). By Saturday, May 2, 1970, while band mates David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young were recording their latest album, students were going on the
offensive, attacking campus military units with rocks or anything they could get their hands on (Spofford 26). By the next day, strikes were taking place throughout the United States
at such major colleges and universities as "the University of California at Los Angeles, Boston College, Haverford College, Northeastern University, Colgate, Rutgers, Syracuse, Amherst, Berkeley, [and] Duke" (Spofford 26). Seemingly
in the middle of it the fray was Ohios Kent State University. Despite its predominantly conservative faculty, the students organized a Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast
Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace protests had been arranged (Heineman 2005). Antiwar activities soon began manifesting themselves in dormitories
as well, and politically motivated picketing marches by the time Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April of 1968 soon became commonplace at Kent State (Heineman 210).
However, after learning of the college demonstrations elsewhere, Kent Mayor LeRoy Satrom elected to take aggressive action by asking President Nixon to dispense National Guard troops to Kent State on
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