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The legal outcome of the Kent State shootings, including the acquittal of the Ohio National Guardsmen and the settlement with the State of Ohio
The decision to send National Guard into was made by state and local officials: asked to intervene after street unrest, and Governor Rhodes authorized the Guard’s arrival—troops began arriving on May ...
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...