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New light shed on Kent State killings--Shots fired at Guard, declassified files indicate
The Washington Times ^ | May 4, 2010 | James Rosen

Posted on 05/03/2010 6:27:24 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: meyer
"Needless to say, Dad (a WW-II vet) and my brother were on opposite sides of the issue."

Hopefully, your older brother has gained the wisdom of his father through the years. ; )

42 posted on 05/03/2010 6:57:52 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: DoughtyOne

I couldn’t agree more. The FBI should have come out and made all the investigation known as it took place.

These Guardsmen were crucified and guilty in the eyes of many, and unjustly.

The protesting and rioting in many areas of the country was not put across to the public like it should have been by authorities as unjustified anarchism.


43 posted on 05/03/2010 6:57:53 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: chris_bdba
My uncle was an 18 yo man who was serving his country after older brother had been in Vietnam. It’s good the truth is finally coming out.

My thanks to your uncle for serving. I was a teenager at the time so I do remember the incident. The Guard was put into a very bad situation. Nothing good was going to come of it. With SDS, the Weather Underground and other subversive communist movements involved, someone was going to get injured or killed.

Too bad it had to be someone innocent.

44 posted on 05/03/2010 6:58:13 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: mom4melody
I warned my two oldest, should they feel the need to protest on my tuition dime, they better hope the National Guard get’s there before I do...

Bravo!
Ditto here, although not at Ohio State.

Ever wonder what creates independent thinking adults, vs 50-yr-old adolescents?

45 posted on 05/03/2010 6:59:45 PM PDT by Publius6961 (10% of muslims, the killer murdering radicals, are "only" 140,000,000 of 'em)
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To: Gay State Conservative

All other facts aside, it was my opinion then and now that the Guardsmen were poorly trained and led. Riots had been going on for the previous few years and from what I saw there was a command failure.


46 posted on 05/03/2010 7:00:04 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: jazusamo
The protesting and rioting in many areas of the country was not put across to the public like it should have been by authorities as unjustified anarchism.

It doesn't appear that much has changed.
47 posted on 05/03/2010 7:00:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Shooter 2.5

Days of major rioting, attacks on cops and firefighters are conveniently ignored.

The shots that killed the students were warning shots fired OVER the bad guys heads. Maybe the National Guard didn’t notice that the ground goes higher back there.


48 posted on 05/03/2010 7:00:44 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: laconic

My mom said the same thing at the time. I’m from Cleveland.


49 posted on 05/03/2010 7:02:44 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Ilk)
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To: jazusamo
Looks like that Canadian scumbag,Neil Young (& Friends),have egg on their face.Not that that bothers them.
50 posted on 05/03/2010 7:03:15 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: jazusamo
I was in Chicago the previous October 8-11, 1969, tracking Rudd and the SDS Days of Rage.

Rudd had spent seven hours on the Purdue campus pitching his recruitment before various groups from 5,000 to a living room.

Many three-car-plus-wagon convoys, platoons of pigeon-blue helmets, knots of Dick Tracy's around walkie talkies, the Chicago Tactical Squad, and a crowd of presumed off-duty or undercover Chicago cops looking for a little ultraviolence.

The army surplus in red-armbands broke windows and took refuge in churches.

Ayers followed with bombs. Is it too great a leap to foresee he would use provocateurs?

And now, behold, "meet the new boss, the same as the old boss"--the punks run the show.

And the Maoists in the new administration were mute when the PLA killed 2,000 in the 140 locations associated with the "Tiananmen Square" massacre of June 3-4, 1989.

Not to mention the abomination of Waco and the highly suspicious OKCBomb.

Today the groundwork is being laid for the Nuclear Freeze the Columbian Kenyan wanted.

And Bill Ayers cheers Hugo Chavez, "Viva la revolucion bolivariana!"

Where was all that bleating when Neda was shot by agents of Hussein's beloved Rat Boy.

And all of that was to protest a Cambodian pursuit of an enemy hitherto allowed sanctuary by the previous president more intent on his six-trillion-dollar war on something or other--

Would not two million Cambodians have preferred a little help--do their voices not call from beyond.

The left cannot think from one sentence to the next, but must follow the next passing demagogue.

51 posted on 05/03/2010 7:03:44 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: jazusamo

Every expunged or censored word will eventually resound from mountaintop to mountaintop.

I wonder if the burn outs known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young will apologize for causing anti-American hatred in their misguided, one sided anthem, “Ohio”? (Sound of crickets)


52 posted on 05/03/2010 7:04:24 PM PDT by Binstence (Live Freep or Die)
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To: laconic
Have you ever been hit in the head by a rock?

For a matter of fact I have on two occasions. For some silly reason I didn't get a 30-06 and kill the person.

53 posted on 05/03/2010 7:04:55 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA /Patron - TSRA- IDPA)
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To: GeronL
The shots that killed the students were warning shots fired OVER the bad guys heads.

Jeff Cooper firearms rule number four.

54 posted on 05/03/2010 7:07:46 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA /Patron - TSRA- IDPA)
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To: cripplecreek
It doesn't appear that much has changed.

Exactly, and it's sad.

55 posted on 05/03/2010 7:08:25 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: meyer
“Clearly, someone spooked at least one guard and he shot. Once a shot was fired, the rest was automatic.

The unfortunate outcome was that the guards apparently didn’t shoot directly at the trouble makers, but shot over their heads instead, killing people farther back rather than the ones causing the problems in the first place. I mean, if you’re going to go through the trouble of discharging a firearm, aim at the bad guys, not over their heads.” Agreed

I agree that something spooked the guards and that set off the shooting. It was a serious mistake to put National Guardsmen, armed with M1’s into a riot control situation for which they were not trained and ill equipped. I don't put a lot of stock in FBI reports, especially 40 years after the incident. Too often the Feds arrive at the conclusion first, then investigate until they find facts to support their predetermined theory. JFK?

It's not unusual to have hundreds of conflicting “witness” statements. Where is the ballistic evidence?

56 posted on 05/03/2010 7:08:59 PM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 393)
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To: Little Bill
All other facts aside, it was my opinion then and now that the Guardsmen were poorly trained and led.

That's certainly possible.Even if some (or even many) of the Guardsmen had real experience in,say,Vietnam I would think that that wouldn't qualify them to handle a riot.My feeling is that handling riots requires a very special kind of training and back then the National Guard was known pretty much to be a joke.

57 posted on 05/03/2010 7:09:00 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: wolf24

Lord knows, the way we fought the war sucked. Frankly we should have just rolled our tanks right into downtown Hanoi and publicly hanged Ho Chi Minh, it would have been all over by 1964.

Vietnam showed the Soviet Union, that they were not going to take the rest of the world without a fight from us. Vietnam was a battle in a much larger war, a war we ultimately won, because of our fight there. The deaths were not in vain.


58 posted on 05/03/2010 7:09:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Shooter 2.5
Did anybody bother to recover the bullets from the bodies and match them to the weapon(s) of origin? If not, then it is purely speculation that the guardsmen were the shooters. I prefer to work from factual evidence.
59 posted on 05/03/2010 7:09:19 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: bitterohiogunclinger
Shots fired from the students, I doubt.

How about government buildings being bombed by an adviser to the POTUS? Do you doubt that as well?

60 posted on 05/03/2010 7:11:06 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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