Kent State, 40 years on: the shredding of constitutional liberty still goes on
To this day, military repression permeates the US. But as history has shown, resistance will always follow
National Guard troops move in on a student protest at Kent State Ohio on 4 May 1970 Photograph: Time & Life images
Again and again, we learn that war abroad will find a way home.
On 30 April 1970, Richard Nixon announced the US invasion ofCambodia, a sovereign nation the US had been secretly bombing for several months. It was a saturation campaign involving 120 strikes a day by B-52s carrying up to 60,000 pounds of bombs each. But in the