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the May fourth kent state shootings were the product of days of unrest on the Kent State campus on May first nineteen seventy students came out to protest the bombings in Cambodia which broaden the war and to protest the military draft for war they did not support the students begin to be disruptive there was vandalism people threw rocks and bottles at the police and others looted stores the mayor of the time Leroy satram declared a state of emergency and called in the ohio national guard on May fourth 1970 after the students had resumed classes or rally was called for noon National Guardsmen eventually had to fire tear gas into the crowd the crowd became hostile and began to throw things at the guardsmen the guardsmen advanced on the crowd and for a reason that nobody has ever proven fired into the crowd for students were killed Alison Krauss william schroeder Jeffrey Miller and Sandra