This newspaper style poster presentation will depict the global events of the 1960s and 1970s and their relation to the events which occurred at the Kent State University Campus on May 4th, 1970, which lead to the untimely deaths of four students and injury of nine others, and will analyze the enduring impacts of the event on our society. There will be focus placed on the events which occurred in the lead-up to May 4th and in the aftermath of the devastating incident as well as its lasting impact in the fifty years since. There will be a concentration on the events of the conflict in Vietnam and their influence on dissent in American society and among students at Kent State University. There will also be coverage of the Jackson State University shooting of 1970.