William Knox Schroeder, a 19-year-old Caucasian male, was a student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. On May 4, 1970, he was tragically killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. Schroeder was not actively participating in the protest; he was simply walking between classes when he was shot in the chest by a single bullet from an M-1 Garand battle rifle. The bullet entered his left chest at the seventh rib, piercing his left lung, and some fragments exited f
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