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Today, May 1, is the forty-fifth anniversary of the start of four days of chaos leading to the killing by National Guardsmen of four students at Kent State University.  Ignited by a prior evening prime-time broadcast by President Nixon, three significant events occurred at Kent on this day.  Protesters buried a copy of the Constitution on the Commons, the Black United Students rallied on front campus (warned blacks to avoid the expected turmoil of the next few days… no need to have fingers pointed at blacks) and rioting erupted in the student tavern section of downtown Kent followed by police use of teargas to disperse students on East Main Street near the front campus gate.

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