Every year, SUNY Plattsburgh remembers the six killed and 11 injured student protestors at Kent State University and Jackson State University. — PLATTSBURGH | SUNY Plattsburgh will remember the students who were killed on May 4 and May 14, 1970, on the Kent State and Jackson State college campuses at a noontime ceremony held Friday, May 9, in front of Kehoe Administration Building.
On May 4, 1970, four unarmed students were killed, and nine were injured on the Kent State campus in Ohio when National Guard troops fired into a crowd of students protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the Vietnam War.
Just 10 days later, at Jackson State in Mississippi, police trying to disperse a crowd of students protesting racism fired at young people gathered in front of a women’s dormitory, killing two students and injuring 12 others…