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...first, one former student, Joy Bishop, testified that she saw a gunman shoot in the air just before the Guard volley. Other students standing beside her testified that they had seen nobody on the spot where she said she had seen the gunman. One student, Harry Montgomery, said a Guardsman identified as Sgt. Myron Pryor had fired first; Pryor denied it. Guardsman James Pierce, who had said in 1970 that Pryor had instructed the troops to shoot if rushed, could no longer recall hearing such an order, but stood by his original impression...
DEAN KAHLER, 25, Kent State University student who was wounded by a National Guardsman's bullet in May 1970 and paralyzed for life: "All I could think about is that we are finally out of there. If it had happened five years ago, I might not be sitting here this way today. If nothing else, student dissent and student opinion finally reached the older people, people who run this country...
...case had reached Battisti's federal court in Cleveland through a complex series of events. First an Ohio grand jury refused to indict any Guardsman for the 13-second volley of shots fired into a crowd during a rally to protest the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Then Attorney General John Mitchell refused to bring any federal charges. But parents, survivors and sympathizers would not accept that result. Last year Attorney General Elliot Richardson was persuaded to renew the investigation. This time a federal grand jury charged eight of the Guardsmen with willfully violating the victims' civil rights...
...Youngstown, Ohio, had been walking to a speech therapy class with a friend. Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, of Plainview, N.Y., had written on one of his notebooks: Rocky for President in '72. Allison Krause, 19, of Pittsburgh, had come the closest of the four to threatening a Guardsman: a few days before, she'd put a flower in his rifle and told him that flowers were better than bullets...
...what they did," said Mrs. Louis Schroeder of Lorain, Ohio. Added Mrs. Sarah Scheuer of Youngstown, Ohio: "I'm pleased that at long last there will be an accounting before the law." Kent State Student Dean Kahler, 24, who was struck in the spine by a Guardsman's bullet and is now confined to a wheelchair, declared: "This re-establishes my faith in the grand jury system. The American system of justice finally prevailed...