Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...locks-it was Tiny Tim in Yorkshire at the start of a five-week tour of England. But Tim's manner seemed so inappropriate to his matter (The Land of Hope and Glory, the superpatriotic hymn to Britain from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance) that onetime Coldstream Guardsman Jim Smith, 34, felt impelled to wrest the mike away. "This man was running down England," barked the unrepentant Guardsman. "I'm quitting," trilled the unrepentant singer, who thereupon flounced back to the States...
...telegram stated, "We are appalled" at the fact that 25 Kent students and faculty have been indicted by an Ohio grand jury in connection with the disorders at the school last May, while National Guardsman have been "exonerated" of guilt in the deaths of four students...
...Guardsmen were not under sniper fire. "Nothing was found to indicate that anyone other than a Guardsman discharged a firearm during the incident," the report said...
...Justice Department report, prepared for Portage County Prosecutor Ronald Kane after an investigation by more than 100 FBI agents, advised that six of the Guardsmen could be criminally charged; the shootings "were not necessary and not in order." According to the FBI, no Guardsman had been injured at the time of the shootings, and none of them were in danger of their lives. One shot at a student who was merely making an obscene gesture. During the eleven seconds of firing, says the FBI, 13 students were hit by bullets. Nine of the 13 victims were struck in the side...