He publicly blamed the student protesters, prompting a series of protests all over the country.
Kent State Shootings
On May 4, 1970, four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops at Kent State University in Ohio. The students were protesting the invasion of Cambodia, announced by Richard Nixon the week before. Kent State University
If you are asking about the Kent State shootings from 1970 (the ones that were memorialized in the song "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young), four students were killed and nine were seriously wounded (one of whom suffered paralysis).
Richard Nixon was the President. The tragedy occurred on May 4, 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War.
Often a similar experience is shocking because one believes that the experience would not occur a second time.
Kent State Shootings
See: Kent State University Shootings
I happened to be around in 1970 (and was a university student at the time) so I can speak from personal experience. We blamed the policies of the Nixon administration, which had needlessly prolonged the Vietnamese War, for the Kent State shootings.
Assassination of JFK, Kent State Shootings, Watergate.
After years of legal battles over the 1970 Kent State shootings, the families received payments of reparations. In the addition, the use of lethal ammunition by the National Guard became highly restricted.
There was the Chicago riots of '68 and the Kent State Shootings in '70.
Start research with "Kent State University Shootings" (03 May 1970).
The shootings led to protests by over four million students and the closing of over 900 campuses across the country. This was the only nationwide student strike in the history of the United States.
The U.S. Gov. was directly to blame for Kent State. The shootings was a lesson the Gov. wanted to get across that worked very well. Try to stop the war machine and we will kill you. The same was true about Waco (David Koresh) The Gov. wanted to establish that people stay with the Christian religion as it is or they will burn you and your children to death. In Jesus's time they hung them on crosses.
His invasion (incursion) of Cambodia on 01 May 1970 resulted in the Kent State University shootings on 04 May 1970. See book: INTO CAMBODIA, by K. W. Nolan and song "OHIO", by Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young).
Ohio Guardsmen shot 4 students at Kent State on 04 May 1970, protesting Nixon's Cambodian invasion.
On May 4, 1970, four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops at Kent State University in Ohio. The students were protesting the invasion of Cambodia, announced by Richard Nixon the week before. Kent State University