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The National Guard advances on student protestors on the campus of Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

A Protestor Remembers the Kent State Shootings

Dean Kahler was wounded in the Kent State University shootings. Fifty years ago, the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of students demonstrating against raids into Cambodia. Four students were killed and nine were injured. The National Guard and Governor of Ohio (who ordered the Guard's presence) were exonerated of any responsibility for the shooting. Kahler was the only survivor to be paralyzed. (Image courtesy of Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives.)

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Other segments from the episode on May 4, 1995

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 4, 1995: Interview with Dean Kahler; Interview with Paul Weyrich.

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