4 May 2005

Four Dead in Ohio

On May 4th, 1970 - 35 years ago today - National Guardsmen opened fire on a crowd of unarmed students at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others wounded.

No one was ever punished and the remaining and unanswered questions are many.

Was there a conspiracy at Kent State?

Previously undisclosed FBI files reveal that:
  1. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover felt the victims deserved to be shot;

  2. Hoover eagerly followed Nixon's instructions to "knock down" (that is, discredit) accurate news reports that the shootings were not necessary and that the Guardsmen could be prosecuted; and

  3. After Hoover relayed that order, one of his top aides boasting of "scotching" those accurate news accounts.


posted by Naum at 15:20 | History

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Kent State, far from being an anomoly, is the norm. Look up info on the Ludlow massacre, or the Bonus Army attack by President Hoover, Eisenhower, Patton, and McArthur.
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Did you know that May Day, which is celebrated around the world (but not in America, including in Ukraine honors a labor union fight here in America where several union protestors were killed?

Kent State is only one of dozens of violent actions by the public in Americas history.
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