On Thursday April 30th 1970 President Nixon gave a speech to the country. At the end of his speech he asked for the support of the nation for the soldiers over in Vietnam. “I ask for your support for our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world, not for territory, not for glory, but so that their younger brothers and their sons and your sons can have a chance to grow up in a world …showed first 75 words of 1255 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1255 total…and began firing into the crowd killing four students and wounding nine. There was never an order to fire. Some of the National Guardsmen claimed that they had heard the order to fire while others claimed no such thing. Some claimed that they were fired at first by a sniper, which would give them the right to fire back in order to protect themselves. Not one of the Guardsmen however was struck by a bullet.