On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students participating in a demonstration against the Vietnam War on the Kent State campus. Four students were killed and nine were wounded. Rosen, who represented the families of the victims of the 1970 shootings at Kent State while ACLU’s special counsel, delivered the keynote address (excerpted here) in Kent, Ohio, on Friday at the commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the massacre.
We gather here each year to remember our lost loved ones and friends and to rededicate ourselves to seeking justice in their memory. There is a pessimistic French saying that translates as: “The more things change the more they stay the same.” As we bear witness here today, it is both true and yet not true!
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