Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It’s hard to picture Ohio’s Kent State college students and anti-Vietnam War activists, massacred by the National Guard, as staunch defenders of the U.S. Constitution. This was especially true since political leaders and a managed press repeatedly called and labeled them bums or long-haired hippies, including being compared to Nazi “brownshirts.” Protesters Accused Nixon of “Murdering the Constitution” But the student protesters and activists, that had organized a peaceful afternoon rally, did so to accuse President Richard M. Nixon of “murdering the Constitution” by illegally invading Cambodia.1 They wanted to also bring...
