Kent State, Forty Years Later
Three of four victims were Jews
May 04, 2010
Famous photo from that day. The dead student is Jeffrey Miller, who was Jewish.(Forward)
On May 4, 1970, four unarmed students at Vietnam War protests at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, were killed by National Guardsmen. The Forward helpfully reminds us that three of these four were Jewish.
Incidentally, two of the victims (one of them Jewish) were not actually protesters; they were bystanders. Those were slightly crazy times.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
