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Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire yesterday on fleeing anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, killing four and wounding eleven students. Meanwhile the national university strike protesting the U. S. invasion of Cambodia continued to sweep colleges across the country...
...main rallies were peaceful, although minor skirmishes between guardsmen, police, and small groups of demonstrators took place on the Green after dark. Thirty-nine people were arrested during the incidents, mostly on minor charges...
Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes said yesterday that he is seeking authority for National Guardsmen to make arrests at Kent State University where an Army ROTC building was burned down Saturday night. Meanwhile the curfew at Kent continued...
Lawrence, now the home of the University of Kansas, was once more churning with violence last week. Flames lit the sky over the town, gunshots crackled in the night air. Police and National Guardsmen patrolled the streets, and nervous citizens, fearful of the new outlaws in their midst, could only watch and wonder why "Bleeding Kansas" was being bled once again...
...Explanations. State officials moved quickly to restore order. Kansas Governor Robert Docking declared a "state of public emergency" and dispatched 242 National Guardsmen and 25 state troopers to help fatigued local police enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Police arrested 68 students and youths, three of them for possession of an incendiary device. Some 350 white businessmen formed an organization for better law enforcement to protect their property...