Despite the coronavirus and the cancellation of the originally scheduled events for the May 4, 1970 50th Commemoration at Kent State University, a small group still followed tradition and showed up in the Prentice Hall parking lot to remember Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder and Allison Krause.

The group carried candles and lanterns as they looped through the campus, then one person stood vigil in each of the four spaces that marked where the students were shot. 

Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students and bystanders protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.