On May 5 , 1970 , one day after the Kent State shootings , University of Kentucky students burned down the ROTC building in protest against those shooting deaths by the National Guard and the Vietnam War . Governor Nunn called out the National Guard and the KSP to enforce a curfew after activists failed to heed UK President Otis Singletary 's executive curfew edict
Kent State shootings
Kent State shootings
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