Kent State shooting

(Newser) - John Cleary, one of the nine students wounded in the infamous 1970 Kent State shooting in which four others were killed, has died at his home near Pittsburgh at age 74, the New York Times reports. Cleary, who had been battling pancreatic cancer since 2019, was a 19-year-old architecture freshman...

(Newser) - Urban Outfitters' latest Very Bad Idea: Selling a "vintage" Kent State University sweatshirt with what appears to be fake blood spattered all over it, Gawker reports. The sweatshirt, which People calls "faux-vintage," seems to be referencing the fatal 1970 shootings of four unarmed students during a Vietnam...

(Newser) - It's been precisely 42 years since National Guard members opened fire indiscriminately on protesters at Kent State University, but the survivors of the shooting are still looking for answers. A group of seven wounded in the incident said yesterday they were beginning a campaign to convince lawmakers to hold...