Man In Iconic American Kent State Shooting Photo Was Israeli Jeffery Miller

Jeffrey Glenn Miller

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(March 28, 1950 – May 4, 1970) was an American student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, when he was killed by the Ohio Army National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting against the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus. National Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 345 ft (106 m).

Miller was born in New York, the son of Elaine Holstein and Bernard Miller. His family was Jewish.