The Kent State Massacre was the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus.
History[]
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on a crowd of unarmed students at Kent State University protesting Richard Nixon’s announcement of the Cambodian incursion during the Vietnam War. Four students die, including a young woman placing a flower in a soldier’s rifle barrel.[1]
Trivia[]
- During the live-action film's opening sequence, hippies stick flowers into the barrels of M1 Garand rifles of U.S. Army military policemen before the MPs fire them on the hippies, flowers still in the muzzles. This is an homage to the famous photograph where a protester places a flower in the barrel of an MP's M14 Rifle.
