After the Kent State massacre, most people sided with the National Guard.
Students protesting U.S. participation in the Vietnam War walked along the National Mall toward the Capitol on April 17, 1965. Fifty-four years ago next month, members of the National Guard were called to the campus of Kent State University in Ohio in response to student protests over the Vietnam War. President Richard M. Nixon won election in 1968 in part on his pledge to end the conflict; in late April 1970, though, he announced that it was expanding with the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
In October 1968, nearly all respondents to the Harris Poll opposed blocking traffic to protest the war in Vietnam. Asked how they might respond, two-thirds of respondents said that, if nothing else worked, they might participate in a physical assault or armed action over the tactic. In May 1970, Harris asked Americans if they were more likely to sympathize with or condemn the protests. One-third third sympathized. More than half condemned. More than a third said they thought antiwar protests should be declared illegal.That August, Harris asked whether Americans agreed with the aim of the protests on college campuses and whether Americans agreed with the tactics used to achieve those aims. About two-thirds of respondents opposed the aims of the protests.
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