This angers me intensely. What the F was the FBI thinking, keeping these documents sealed all this time?
Guardsmen carried the burden of these shootings for decades. The public by an large thought evil of the guardsmen. Familes thought their kids died needlessly, fired upon by ill prepared guardsmen.
Fact is, those kids may have died needlessly. But there was a rhyme or reason behind it. The guard were fired upon and feared for their lives.
This was FUBARed to the max, and not by the guardsmen either.
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.
If there were shots fired by someone prior to the NG volley, I'd bet a cup of coffee they were fired only to 'trigger' the NG in an effort to make them "chain" fire.
Based on this:
It also turned out that the FBI had its own informant and agent-provocateur roaming the crowd, a part-time Kent State student named Terry Norman, who had a camera. Mr. Norman also was armed with a snub-nosed revolver that FBI ballistics tests, first declassified in 1977, concluded had indeed been discharged on that day.
It would seem to me, if someone went back there and meticulously searched for spent rounds ((long shot) no pun intended, they could break this case if they got really lucky...That is if the Feds still have the revolver in some evidence property room.
No doubt these rounds were searched for, but it would not be the first time evidence went undiscovered.
I'm not say, I'm just sayin.
My family being somewht left, when I was growing up I was told about the poor Chicago protesters and the Kent State students. LIES, EVERY DARN ONE! That’s all the left knows how to do. If the Communist/Marxist trash had been taken out then we would not have the problems we are seening now!
Nixon was too easy on the students!