Kent State shootings

"They listen incredulously as campus police officer Harold E. Rice shouts through a bullhorn: "Attention! This assembly is unlawful! This is an order—disperse immediately!""

"These students are going to have to find out," the general replies grimly, "what law and order is all about."

"Despite the outrage of the dead students' parents, an Ohio grand jury refused to indict any of the guardsmen for the Kent State murders. Ohio's Senator Stephen M. Young called the grand jury's decision "a fraud and a fakery.""

"These would be the first of many probes into what soon became known as the Kent State Massacre. Like the Boston Massacre almost exactly two hundred years before (March 5, 1770), which it resembled, it was called a massacre not for the number of its victims but for the wanton manner in which they were shot down."