This day in music history.

May 4, 1970, Four students at Kent University were killed and eleven wounded by National Guard troops at a campus demonstration protesting the Vietnam War. Without firing a warning shot, the guardsman discharged 67 rounds in 13 seconds toward a group of demonstrators in a nearby parking lot. In 1974, at the end of a criminal investigation into the incident, a federal court dropped all charges against the National guardsman for their role in the students death. The incident inspired Neil Young to compose 'Ohio' which became a hit for Crosby Stills Nash & Young. David Crosby later said "...it's very hard to ignore that Kent State thing. They were down there, man, ready to do it. You can see them, they're all kneeling there, they're all in the kneeling position and they got their slings tight and they're ready to shoot. And there's this kid, this long-haired kid standin' there with a flag wavin' it...I mean, I cannot be a man, and be a human, and ignore that."
Ohio by Neil Young
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.