These rarely-seen photographs of the Kent State Massacre provide a harrowing look at the day the '60s died.

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On May 4, 1970, at Ohio’s Kent State University, four American citizens were murdered by their own government. A line of 29 men of the Ohio National Guard marched up before a group of unarmed protesters and opened fire, killing four and wounding nine others. It’s an episode now burned into history as the Kent State Massacre.


The students were calling for peace. They were protesters demonstrating against the Vietnam War and against America’s intention to move into Cambodia. Too many soldiers had died — the protesters thought — many of them students whose names had come up in the draft lottery. The students wanted the killings to stop.


On May 1, 500 students filled the Kent State campus, where they marched and made speeches that terrified some of the people around them. One pulled out a copy of the United States Constitution and burned it, trying to demonstrate how Nixon had violated it – but some didn’t quite understand. Some saw the protestors as a danger.


The protesters continued on for the next few days, with the crowd growing larger. By May 4, the day of the Kent State Massacre, there were 2,000 people on the campus handing out leaflets, making speeches, and standing up to demand peace.


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The scene of Kent State University becomes a battlefield as National Guardsmen unleash tear gas and bullets on the students.Bettmann/Getty Images


Students gather around John Cleary, who has been shot by the National Guard.Howard Ruffner/Getty Images


A student grabs a tear gas canister and throws it right back at the attacking National Guardsmen.Bettmann/Getty Images


14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio screams over the body of 20-year-old Kent State student Jeffrey Miller, shot dead by the National Guard.John Paul Filo/Library of Congress


Demonstrators run as National Guardsmen fire tear gas and bullets into the crowd.Bettmann/Getty Images


The National Guard moves in and orders the protesters to disperse.


These men were chased away by the protesters. They would come back, however, armed and ready to fight.Bettmann/Getty Images


A National Guardsman throws a can of tear gas into the crowd.Underwood Archives/Getty Images


The National Guard presses forward toward the protesters.Howard Ruffner/Getty Images


The Ohio National Guard give up on tear gas and open fire.Library of Congress


An injured student is carried off to a stretcher in a mad scramble to get him to a doctor before he bleeds out.Bettmann/Getty Images


Students at Kent State protest the Vietnam War and Nixon's expansion into Cambodia.


Some of the students here would not leave alive, including Jeffrey Miller, seen here in a cowboy hat.Howard Ruffner/Getty Images


The National Guard move in on the students, now with gas masks covering their faces.Bettmann/Getty Images


Students gather around a victim that has been shot, trying to get them to safety before the National Guard returns.Bettmann/Getty Images


The National Guard, with gas masks covering their faces, fire barrages of tear gas into the crowd of protesters.Bettmann/Getty Images


The National Guard charge forward.Bettmann/Getty Images


Students make a circle around Joseph Lewis Jr., a wounded student who had taken a bullet from the National Guard. They eye the soldiers who shot him, unsure how this will play out.Library of Congress


Students help paramedics get their bleeding friend into an ambulance.Bettmann/Getty Images


An irate student stomps on the bloodstain left by one of his friends, mere moments after the massacre ended.Bettmann/Getty Images


Demonstrators at the University of New Mexico who were protesting the Kent State shootings in the immediate aftermath run for safety as National Guardsmen move in.Steven Clevenger/Corbis via Getty Images


The day after the massacre, students come out in droves to protest at the Capitol.


Washington, D.C. May 5, 1970.Library of Congress


Students on strike storm the University of Virginia, standing up for those who died at the Kent State Massacre.


Charlottesville, Virginia. May 6, 1970.Arthur J. Morris Law Library/University of Virginia School of Law


A crowd of 9,000 students on strike, protesting the massacre at UCLA, boo their chancellor as he comes out to plead for them to calm down.


Los Angeles, California. May 7, 1970.Los Angeles Public Library


Protesters at a sit-in at the Capitol join the nationwide student strike in protest of the massacre.

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