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...officer in the Ohio National Guard who witnessed the May 4 Kent State shootings and claims that the lives of the Guardsmen were not in jeopardy, was not called as a witness by the Ohio State Grand Jury that investigated the shootings...
...Guardsman claims he was hit with rocks immediately prior to the firing." The summary said that despite the great number of rocks and other missiles aimed at Guardsmen earlier in the melee, only a single soldier was hurt seriously enough to require medical attention, and one Guardsman specifically stated that at the time of the shooting, the rain of rocks had diminished...
...There was no initial order to fire." After the firing began, "some Guardsmen had to be physically restrained from continuing to fire their weapons...
...Finally, the summary says that in the FBI interviews with Guardsmen, mention of imminent danger occurs "almost as an afterthought ... We have some reason to believe that the claim . . . that their lives were endangered by the students was fabricated subsequent to the event...
...interview in the Detroit Free Press, Ford said that the National Guardsmen on the campus last May "should have shot all" troublemakers, and that the incidents were Communist-inspired. "I think the whole damn country is not going to quiet down until the police are ordered to shoot to kill." Of the Kent shootings, he said: "The point is, it stopped the riot-you can't argue with that. It just stopped it flat." As Ford spoke, according to Reporter William Schmidt, he toyed with a .45-cal. pistol he keeps near his desk and kidded: "I could shoot...