Fact #108796

Four students are killed on Kent State University campus in Ohio, USA, by National Guard soldiers during an anti-Vietnam war protest. The incident horrifies Neil Young into writing the song Ohio one day later. The Beach Boys will also make reference to the killings in their song Student Demonstration Time. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck's cantata Truth Is Fallen, will be written as a protest against the Vietnam War, and dedicated to the memory of those who died in the Kent State shootings and Jackson State killings of May 1970. Also, the group Devo will form initially not as musical group but as an idea — the concept of the "de-evolution" of the human race — formulated by three art students at Kent State University in response to the fatal shootings.