May 4, 1970: Kent State
May 4, 2012 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography
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Via Newseum: Today in News History: May 4, 1970: Four students were killed and nine others were wounded at Kent State University by members of the Ohio National Guard. John Paul Filo's iconic image of the massacre received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for spot news.
(Click above link for video interview with John Filo.)
Related: Kent State, 40 years on: the shredding of constitutional liberty still goes on