On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Vietnam, and further galvanized the anti-war movement.
Two days earlier, on May 2, National Guard troops were called to Kent to suppress students rioting in protest of the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. The next day, scattered protests were dispersed by tear gas, and on May 4 class resumed at Kent State University. By noon that day, despite a ban on rallies, some 2,000 people had assembled on the campus. National Guard troops arrived and ordered the crowd to disperse, fired tear gas, and advanced against the students with bayonets fixed on their rifles. Some of the protesters, refusing to yield, responded by throwing rocks and verbally taunting the troops.
Minutes later, without firing a warning shot, the Guardsmen discharged more than 60 rounds toward a group of demonstrators in a nearby parking lot, killing four and wounding nine. The closest casualty was 20 yards away, and the farthest was almost 250 yards away. After a period of disbelief, shock, and attempts at first aid, angry students gathered on a nearby slope and were again ordered to move by the Guardsmen. Faculty members were able to convince the group to disperse, and further bloodshed was prevented.
The shootings led to protests on college campuses across the country. Photographs of the massacre became enduring images of the anti-war movement. In 1974, at the end of a criminal investigation, a federal court dropped all charges levied against eight Ohio National Guardsmen for their role in the Kent State students’ deaths.
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If History.com says that’s the way it happened, one should ponder other possibilities.
I bet the FBI was all over this one too.
http://mileswmathis.com/kent.pdf
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Look, a CIA sponsored band (with no talent) singing about a CIA-hoaxed event.
Every fucking time.
http://mileswmathis.com/kent.pdf
Funny how Mr Young was seemingly ready with a song after another event: “Let’s Roll”. I suppose anyday now we’ll hear something like “Shelter in Place, Stay Home Stay Safe” from his lowness…
Most people accept the “official narrative” about the Kent State “massacre” without investigating for themselves “what really happened”.
It turns out that there were “agents provocateurs” (outsiders) of the communist persuasion who were fomenting “hate and discontent” among the college students, as well as wreaking havoc and destruction on the local businesses in the town. Their agenda was to destroy civil society, using the college students for their own nefarious purposes.
The local businesses begged for intervention to stop the rioting for approximately a week before troops were called in.
The troops were National Guard reservists with no experience in crowd and riot control.
It was easy to see that they could be “spooked” by the events going on around them as well as being personally attacked.
Yes, it is unfortunate that people were killed, but the blame cannot be put on the National Guard, but must be placed on the agents provocateurs, outsiders, and the students themselves.
Of course.
For the spread of Marxism in America, Academia became ground zero. And from there the cancer spread.
They didn’t need to be issued live ammunition….
Your stattement: They didn’t need to be issued live ammunition….is wrong. Why not be issued live ammunition? The Guardsmans’ lives WERE in danger from these “rioters”. The “protesters” were not “innocent college students”.
Expect a lot more of this.