15 Iconic Newspaper Covers That Went Down in History

4 Dead. 10 Hurt at KSU

In the spring of 1970, a group of students at Kent State University — located just south of Cleveland, Ohio — were demonstrating against the Vietnam War when members of the Ohio National Guard fired into the crowd, killing four students and injuring several more.

This event set into motion a nationwide student strike at other universities. The cover of the next day’s Cleveland Plain Dealer provided a glimpse into the terror on campus that day, showing a woman screaming next to a body on the ground.