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Kent State shootings

By The Associated Press

1 Min Read • May 4, 2018 | 8 years Ago

| Friday, May 4, 2018 10:51 a.m.

Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio on May 4, 1970. National Guardsmen had fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing four. (AP Photo/John Filo)

May 4 marks the 48th anniversary of the 1970 Kent State shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest. Four students were killed.

Kent State University photojournalism student John Filo would capture what would become an iconic antiwar image of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling by the body of a student lying face down. Filo was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the photo.

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