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...fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and exonerated the National Guardsmen who fired into the crowd of demonstrators. But in making its report, the jury exceeded its authority under state law, and its findings were judged illegal by a federal court; they were ordered expunged from the public record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were allowed to stand. Federal...
...evidence of those tragic 13 seconds of firing on Blanket Hill. Citing federal investigations and a recent book by James Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why (TIME, May 3), Davies argues deductively that the deaths resulted from a conspiracy by at least some of the Guardsmen. He suggests that discrepancies in Guardsmen's testimony and photographs of the shooting-including a picture of a huddle at the bottom of the hill before the soldiers whirled and fired on the crowd-are circumstantial evidence of such a conspiracy...
...Haven, Conn., Bobby G. Scale, national chairman of the Black Panther Party, stood charged by the state with ordering the murder of Fellow Panther Alex Rackley. A rally last year in support of Scale and his codefendant, Mrs. Ericka Huggins, attracted 15,000 demonstrators and a host of National Guardsmen to the New Haven Green, and "Free Ericka, Free Bobby" became a protest watchword, aerosoled onto sidewalks and building fronts across the country. The jury selection required a laborious four months; more than 1,500 individuals were called and 1,035 examined before the body was empaneled. No less...
...editorial in last Tuesday's paper had called for a party on the People's Park site to commemorate the second anniversary of the university's use of national guardsmen and police to reclaim the park. The editorial read in part: "For two years our boycott of the park has stood witness to the blood that flowed there. It is time we honored that blood with action-we must take back the park...
...used as a parking lot by university officials, was the center of violent clashes between police and students in May 1969 which resulted in one death, one blinding, and several wounded. Students had attempted to turn the area into a park for local residents but police and national guardsmen were called in to remove the students...