Congressman Dennis Eckart reflects on where he was when the Kent State University Shootings occurred in 1970 and remembers asking himself how the government could do this and get away with it. Eckart discusses how close to home the shootings hit for him and his peers around him.
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The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
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Thank you for reminding us of this May 4th tragedy. A slaughter,
whose innocent victims then President I-am-not-a-crook Richard Nixon callously called “bums”. In America.
This, as dozens of drafted men were dying, hundreds maimed, every week, week after bloody week, in an insane out-of-control war that kept on grinding forward, year after year after year. And when you demonstrated, when you protested, you were killed….
May we never forget. Four dead in Ohio.
Shot dead by the National Guard.
May it never happen again. May we actively work to prevent it.