885 MMMM Top 100: CSNY & "Ohio"

I was only four years old when "Ohio" was written by Neil Young and recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, so it doesn't have the same meaning to me as it did to a lot of other people in 1970. But it is a powerful song, essentially naming President Richard Nixon as the culprit in the shooting deaths of four Vietnam war protestors by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University. The incident was one more factor in the middle class questioning, and turning against, the war.