Peter Weddell / Levi Johnson / Charles Otis

Historical marker location:

1220 West 9th Street, Cleveland, Ohio

( Marker is on West 9th Street just north of West Lakeside Avenue, on the left when traveling north.)

Warehouse District Anthology.

The Kent State shootings, in which National Guardsmen shot and killed four students during a protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in 1970, took place in Ohio. The incident sparked widespread protests and led to the closure of hundreds of universities and colleges across the United States.