A wave of student-led protests have erupted at U.S. colleges and universities over the Israel-Hamas War, prompting school officials to take extreme measures to tamper-down an increasingly chaotic situation.

Fifty-four years ago next month, members of the National Guard were called to the campus of Kent State University in Ohio in response to student protests over the Vietnam War. President Richard M. Nixon won election in 1968 in part on his pledge to end the conflict;

Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover Seders, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza.