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...federal grand jury in Cleveland indicted seven former and one present Ohio National Guardsmen, all enlisted men. They were members of the units that fired into the crowd of about 500 students, including some rock throwers, who demonstrated on the Ohio university campus against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on that bloody afternoon of May 4,1970. When the 13-second volley was over, four students lay dead and nine others wounded...
...state grand jury absolved the Guardsmen in 1970. Even though investigations by the FBI and a presidential commission criticized the Guardsmen's conduct, the case was closed officially in August 1971, when then Attorney General John N. Mitchell said, "There is no likelihood of successful prosecutions of individual Guardsmen." Yet parents, surviving students and their sympathizers refused to give up. They petitioned the Federal Government to reopen the inquiry. Finally, on orders from former Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson, a federal grand jury began hearings in Cleveland last Dec. 18. Over a 39-day period, the 22 jurors heard...
...truck was overturned. Part of the underpinning of a Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge near Homewood was dynamited. In Iowa, National Guard helicopters and state police cars had to escort a 71-truck convoy of beef and pork carcasses on their way to packing plants. A total of 1,500 guardsmen were escorting trucks through Ohio. All together, eight states were forced to call out National Guard troops to check the violence...
Pierce is among those Guardsmen the Guard lists as having fired on students during demonstrations against the American invasion of Cambodia in May 1970. Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine during the demonstration...
...analyzing some 8,000 pages of FBI reports, concluded that the Guard units called to Kent State were not surrounded by hostile students and that they were responsible for unwarranted killings; that they fired at students when they were in no real danger themselves. Justice officials said that the Guardsmen's defense that they opened fire to protect themselves seemed to be "fabricated...