I grew up 45 miles east of Kent. Years after the incident my baseball coach, also history teacher related his experiences. During the riots, yes riots those “students” damn near burned down the town of Kent. If they didn’t burn it, they destroyed it. My coach drove to Kent in the middle of the night to get his girlfriend out of the dorms. He got his girlfriend and they made it out of Kent with only two broken windows and one flat tire. The residents of Kent were terrified every night. The dorm monitor said my coach was nuts for coming at night.
My opinion of the event is similar, the NG didn’t shoot enough of those freaks.
When “protests” turn into riots like BLM/ANTIFA summer of mostly peaceful protests, Aim Small Miss Small!!!!
Friend was in a Kent State U. dorm room, watching the Ohio National Guard and the “student” protesters, along with a roommate - through their window.
Friend’s military experience kicked in; he yelled, “Duck!”
These two hit the deck, as the ONG fired. The heard one round hit the building.
I was airborne, commercial to our hometown. Knew nothing about the events underway. Landed, grabbed a car ride home, did not use the radio.
Drove over to friend’s house, where the parents were alert to “something has happened.” Eventually more news on the TV. We waited for their son.
He arrived a few hours later. “School’s out!” Much to tell.
Governor Jim Rhodes took it on the chin. Liberal media then as vile as today.
“The unrest” chiefly a left-wing-nut production of the left-funding producers, same as today, the agitprop: Russia, socialists, Red Chinese, “enlightened” liberals and “professors.”