Hard Hat Riot
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The Hard Hat Riot occurred in New York City on May 8, 1970, when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of
Hard hats on Cabinet table after Nixon meeting with and supporting construction trades group 18 days after the New York City Hard Hat Riot
Peter J. Brennan, US Secretary of Labor during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
Kent State shootings
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The Kent State shootings were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, United States. The shootin
Hard Hat Riot
…and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. The students were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War, following the April 30 announcement by President Richard Nixon of the US invasion of neutral Cambodia. Some construction workers…
John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after the unarmed student was fatally shot by an Ohio National Guardsman
May 4th Memorial
Poster calling for a nationwide student anti-war strike on May 4, 1970
Photo taken from the perspective of where the Ohio National Guard soldiers stood when they opened fire on the students