What happened at Kent State University in May 1970?
A) Campus radicals ambushed National Guard Troop G, wounding eleven and killing four.
B) Ohio governor James Rhodes ordered the National Guard to shoot all campus radicals.
C) National Guard troops fired at student antiwar protesters, wounding eleven and killing four.
D) A distraught student stood in the window of the library tower and shot professors walking on the main quadrangle below.
E) Campus police fired into a women's dormitory, accidentally killing two male students who were in the midst of a panty raid.

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National Guard troops fired at student antiwar protesters at Kent State University in May 1970, resulting in eleven wounded and four killed. This tragic event was part of the wider national unrest over the Vietnam War and its expansion into Cambodia.

What Happened at Kent State University in May 1970