[HTML1] “Flowers are better than bullets.” ~ Allison Krause
Laurel Krause was 15 years old on May 4th when she went with her parents to the hospital where her sister, Allison, had been taken after being shoot on her university campus
Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder were shot and killed by the Ohio State National Guard while protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus. In addition, nine other students were wounded in the gunfire.
The shootings led to protests and a national student strike, causing hundreds of campuses to close because of both violent and non-violent demonstrations. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks. Five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C. against the war.
Contact Information: Kent State Truth Tribunal
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