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4 students were shoot and killed by National Guard Soliders. This happened while they were protesting.
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Students riot in the town of Kent of the Campus. They damage property and the mayor of Kent calls in the National Guard. They burned down a ROTC building on the Kent State campus.
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The student were protesting the events that happened at Kent State in Ohio. They all were on their way to a peace rally in down town seattle. They were stopped on the highway by state police. The collage students left with out putting up a fight.
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The school shut down and was closed down until next years classes. They did not want anymore protests to happen on the campus as a result of the shootings.
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100,000 people come to Washington D.C to protest the Cambodian incursion and the Veitnam War. They were angry because the president was not doing what he promised the country.
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This song was the reaction to what Neil Young saw and felt about the Kent State Shootings.