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Marquette County Republican Party Secretary @DanAdamini calls for āanother Kent Stateā to deal with campus protests https://t.co/noFnbsj1XL pic.twitter.com/I3d06LkgGq
ā Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) February 4, 2017
Worth noting that Kent State did not curtail student protests. Not even close. In fact, protests multiplied exponentially and the Nixon administrationās war policy became unsustainable.
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students, and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.