Brian VanDeMark’s book “Kent State: An American Tragedy” will be published in August.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) are among the conservative leaders suggesting that the National Guard might be needed to control campus protests across the country against Israel’s war in Gaza. Such calls stir memories of the tragedy 54 years ago at Kent State University in northeastern Ohio.