Existing comment:
1970
* President Nixon sends American troops into neutral Cambodia[fig.]
* At Kent State in Ohio, four students are killed by National Guardsmen during a protest against President Nixon's Cambodia order[fig.]
* Eleven days after Kent State shootings, two students are killed by police at Jackson State College in Mississippi
* Construction workers and student protesters violently clash in the Hard Hat Riots in New York City
* The Art Strike against Racism, War, and Repression calls for New York City museums to close for a day
* Tens of thousands participate in the National Chicano Moratorium March in Los Angeles[fig.]
* Artists organize The People's Flag Show in New York to protest flag desecration laws
* U.S. troop levels in Vietnam at the end of 1970: 334,600 |