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title: "On May 4th, 1970, National Guard troops opened fire on college students protesting President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. On what college campus did this shooting take place?"  
description: "On May 4th, 1970, National Guard troops opened fire on college students protesting President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. On what college campus did this shooting take place?"  
author: "agustina johnson"  
published: 2018-03-11  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39960/on-may-4th-1970-national-guard-troops-opened-fire-on-college-students-protesting-president-nixon-s-invasion-of-cambodia-on-what-college-campus-did-this-shooting-take-place  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# On May 4th, 1970, National Guard troops opened fire on college students protesting President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. On what college campus did this shooting take place?

On May 4th, 1970, [National Guard](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42940/where-is-the-site-of-a-1970-tragedy-in-which-four-students-were-killed-by-national-guard-troops) troops [opened fire](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43121/what-riot-broke-out-in-1886-in-chicago-that-resulted-in-200-police-officers-opened-fire-on-demonstrators-after-a-bomb-exploded) on [college students](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/111968/do-universities-offer-support-for-first-generation-college-students) protesting [President Nixon](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51136/who-was-president-nixon-s-national-security-adviser)'s invasion of Cambodia. On what [college campus](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39961/in-another-college-campus-tragedy-charles-whitman-killed-13-people-in-a-sniper-attack-while-at-the-top-of-a-27-story-observation-tower-on-august-1st-1966-at-what-university-did-this-shooting-take-place) did this shooting take place?\
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