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Comprises the Ohio Army National Guard and the Ohio Air National Guard
Federal criminal charges were brought against eight Ohio National Guardsmen in 1974 but Judge Frank J. Battisti dismissed the case and acquitted them mid‑trial for insufficient proof of willful civil‑...
President Nixon did not directly order the Ohio National Guard to Kent State; the Guard was activated by Governor James Rhodes after local officials requested help amid riots . Nixon privately used di...
Eight Ohio National Guard members were indicted in federal court in 1974 on civil-rights charges alleging they unlawfully deprived students of their rights when they fired at Kent State on May 4, 1970...
Federal officials reacted to the Kent State shootings by both public and private measures that shaped the national response: President Nixon immediately framed the crisis in political terms and reinfo...
The President’s Commission on Campus Unrest — the Scranton Commission — concluded in its September 1970 report that the May 4 shootings at Kent State were “unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable,” ...
Civil litigation stemming from the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings produced a long, complex legal aftermath that ended in an out‑of‑court monetary settlement in January 1979: the State of Ohio paid a...
The Ohio National Guard fired on students at Kent State on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine, but the historical record in the provided sources does not show President Richard Nixon directly...
Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes ordered the Ohio National Guard to Kent in early May 1970 after local unrest, including downtown disturbances and the burning of the campus ROTC building; he publicly vow...
The contemporaneous record does not show a clear, documented federal legal justification that was cited to direct or authorize the Ohio National Guard’s tactics on May 4, 1970; the Guard remained unde...
Historical scholarship since 1970 has moved from immediate official inquiries to a layered reassessment that consistently places primary responsibility for the killings on failures of the Ohio Nationa...
A special Portage County (state) grand jury convened after May 4, 1970, placed primary legal blame on Kent State students and university administrators while formally exonerating the Ohio National Gua...
An out‑of‑court settlement in January 1979 paid $675,000 to the injured students and the families of the four students killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970; the money was paid by the State of Ohio (lar...
The indictments and trials of Ohio National Guard members after the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings prompted public debate and legal scrutiny but did not produce a single, clearly documented national...
Available reporting shows a November 2, 2025 mass shooting at an Airbnb rental in Bath Township, Ohio, that wounded nine people and later prompted arrests: two adults (ages 18 and 19) and one juvenile...