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In a new era of campus upheaval, the 1970 Kent State shootings show the danger of deploying troops to crush legal protests

  • Written by Brian VanDeMark, Professor of History, United States Naval Academy
In a new era of campus upheaval, the 1970 Kent State shootings show the danger of deploying troops to crush legal protestsOhio National Guard soldiers move in on war protesters at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. AP Photo

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed his intention, if elected to a second term, to use the U.S. armed forces to suppress domestic protests. The New York Times reports that Trump’s allies are marshaling legal...

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