I saw the films of the Guardsmen and also did a walkthrough from the quad where the ROTC building was burned, up the hill and to the scene of the shooting. I don’t believe anyone was shooting at the Guardsmen but that doesn’t mean some of the Guardsmen didn’t believe they were being fired upon. They were volunteers, under a lot of stress and in a chaotic situation. It didn’t take much to spark a tragedy. Even if there were agitators there the people who died were all students and one of them had absolutely nothing to do with it, she was just minding her own business on the other side of campus. The Officer in Charge was also brave to the point of lunacy, stepping in front of a bunch of soldiers discharging their weapons and stopping them or else it could have been far worse.
IMHO there were no conspiracies on either side. Sometimes in voliatile situations like this bad things happen, this was just one of those times.
I also had a conversation with Jane Fonda at Kent State while she was sitting on the open toilet of a coed restroom but that’s a story for another day.
You should have shoved her down it! And I'm serious.