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This 7 page paper evaluates an article that compares Kent State with the Boston Massacre. Most of the paper examines the relevance of Kent State and its legacy. The events of May 4, 1970 are included in detail. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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who died in the Kent State Massacre, begins: " Tin soldiers and Nixons coming, were finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio" (Young,
2005). The deaths of those students was shocking. How could innocent college students, protesting on their own campus, be gunned down by officers of the law? It happened and one
article published in 1996 takes a look at the horrific events of the day. Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler (1996) writes an article comparing the Kent State massacre to the Boston massacre.
With this unlikely theme the author picks apart each of the historic events and notes that the Boston massacre occurred due to local events whereas the latter occurred due to
national events (1996). Kent state was of course about Vietnam. The author describes events in detail. First, he looks at the Boston Massacre and then the events at Kent State.
The article explains that on that sunny day of May 4, 1970, students gathered on the Commons and in defiance of an order that would ban outdoor demonstrations, they protested
(1996). It was just before noon on that fateful day that Ohio National Guard Brigadier General Robert H. Canterbury ordered his 113 guardsmen to fire tear-gas in order
to disperse the crowd (1996). By that time, the crowd was equivalent to about one thousand (1996). Eighteen soldiers in the G Troop, Second Squadron, 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment,
would leave the main unit and follow retreating students over Blanket Hill (1996). The students threw rocks at them (1996). G Troop would join about 50 other soldiers from
Alpha Company and the two groups would march down the hill to the football field but they were bombarded by a chain link fence on three sides (1996). Some
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