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In the 1960’s an era of change was marked and a social revolution for many people was also changed in the United States. Many people had to deal with the devastation of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 and Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968. “Martin Luther King Jr. had retained his faith in a Christian theology of nonviolence while Robert Kennedy had come to reject the war his brother had supported and seemed genuinely to sympathize with the poor and minorities” (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005, pp. 12).

Many students started protesting over the civil rights. Students protested the rights for women and many other issues that they faced. Many college students opposed the involvement in the Vietnam War. The student unrest over the Vietnam War conflict was due to the wide media coverage attention. Most of the protesters were protesting the Vietnam war and the draft.

Protest came about when Richard Nixon spread out the war beyond Vietnam into Cambodia. As demonstrators came together for a rally on the college commons, the National Guard troops ordered the demonstrators to spread out. When the protesters refused to spread out the National Guard moved forward wearing their completed battle wear and they were also armed with M-1 rifles. The bullets for the rifles had a horizontal range of nearly two miles. The National Guard troops opened fire into the crowd while many students were going back and forth to their classes. At the end of the open fire there were four students that was killed and nine more students were wounded.

The Vietnam War lasted longer than any other military conflict in the American history. “The United States began sending financial aid and military advisors to South Vietnam in the 1950’s, hoping to thwart a takeover by the communist North Vietnamese, led by Ho Chi Minh” (Anderson, D., 1991. Pp.1). The Vietnam War began to increase unpopular at home inciting large scale protest, profoundly affecting...