After 30 Years, We Can Still Learn From Kent State

It took only 13 seconds -- and 61 shots, most of them fired from World War II-vintage rifles -- to transform a demonstration on a beautiful campus with rolling hills and black squirrels into an infamous incident in the history of higher education and the nation.

Was the rally at Kent State University at noon on Monday, May 4, 1970, illegal? Who was in control of the university during the disruption, which began with the burning of the Reserve Officer Training

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