Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire yesterday on fleeing anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, killing four and wounding eleven students. Meanwhile the national university strike protesting the U. S. invasion of Cambodia continued to sweep colleges across the country...
...Guardsmen-ordered into Kent Sunday by Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes-shot tear gas at 400 to 500 demonstrators gathered on the campus commons. Students threw rocks and hurled back the gas canisters. As the demonstrators dispersed, guardsmen armed with rifles fired a volley at the fleeing demonstrators...
Sunday night 800 guardsmen used bayonets and tear gas to break up a demonstration of nearly 1200 students at Kent State. At least one student was bayoneted in the back and one guardsman was hurt by a rock...
Lawrence, now the home of the University of Kansas, was once more churning with violence last week. Flames lit the sky over the town, gunshots crackled in the night air. Police and National Guardsmen patrolled the streets, and nervous citizens, fearful of the new outlaws in their midst, could only watch and wonder why "Bleeding Kansas" was being bled once again...
...Explanations. State officials moved quickly to restore order. Kansas Governor Robert Docking declared a "state of public emergency" and dispatched 242 National Guardsmen and 25 state troopers to help fatigued local police enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Police arrested 68 students and youths, three of them for possession of an incendiary device. Some 350 white businessmen formed an organization for better law enforcement to protect their property...