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Read an excerpt from Means’s analysis of the shootings, in which “every party to the tragedy made the wrong choices at the wrong time in the wrong place.” Howard Means’s new book, 67 Shots-so named for the number of rounds fired over 13 seconds-incorporates newly available oral history from the university’s archives and extensive interviews to make sense of a volatile, violent moment in America’s history. It was during a rally of 2,000 people on the university commons that the National Guard fired into the crowd. At Kent State, a demonstration quickly turned into riots, leading the mayor of Kent to call in the National Guard. Days before, Richard Nixon had announced a new invasion of Cambodia, and campuses erupted in protest across the country. This year marks the 46th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, when the Ohio National Guard killed four unarmed students and injured nine others, changing the course of the Vietnam War.
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