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...Ohio National Guardsmen who suddenly wheeled and fired into a crowd at Kent State University last May apparently fabricated their story of imminent danger after their volley killed four students. That damning statement, contained in a Justice Department summary of an exhaustive FBI investigation and read oh the Senate floor by Ohio Senator Stephen Young, directly contradicted the special state-appointed local grand jury that only three weeks ago completely exonerated the Guardsmen...
...grand jury, which had before it the entire FBI report as well as those of several other investigative bodies, nevertheless reported that the Guardsmen "logically" felt they faced "serious bodily injury" when they fired, and were "therefore" innocent of any crime under Ohio law. The guilt, said the grand jury, fell upon 25 persons, mostly students or former students, who were indicted on various counts of rioting, burning the university's ROTC building and interfering with firemen...
...Guardsmen were not surrounded . . . They could easily have continued in the direction in which they had been going [across the crest of the hill where, instead, they unexpectedly stopped, turned, and fired...
...said that the shootings "were not necessary and not in order"; the Guardsmen were not surrounded and not in real danger...
After four students at Kent State University were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen last May, the incident stayed on the front pages of newspapers for weeks. Even today, five months later, the aftermath of the confrontation still makes news. But when students at the predominantly black South Carolina State College in Orangeburg clashed with police on Feb. 8, 1968, newsmen covered the event sparsely, inaccurately, or not at all. Though three students were killed in Orangeburg and 27 others were wounded, the tragedy was effectively ignored by most of the world...