This Day In History: May 4

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1970

This Day in History Video: What Happened on May 4

In This Day in History video clip - May 4, 1970: National Guard kills four at Kent State - In Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of antiwar demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another.

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