Students Order Flag to Half Staff-- Some of the 20,000 youths with clenched fists salute the American flag at half staff in front of State House in Boston Tuesday during demonstration to protest President Nixon's policy of sending American troops into Cambodia, and the killing of four students at Kent State University by National Guardsmen. The flag was ordered lowered by State officials after the youths began chant for Gov. Francis W. Sargent to lower the flag in honor of the youths killed at the Ohio school.

Associated Press · [ca. May 1970]

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