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...According to the FBI report, the Guardsmen got together and agreed to say that they had been in danger and had fired to keep from being overrun by students who wanted to grab their guns and bayonet them. The Beacon-Journal report explodes this flimsy story by quoting a Guardsman as saying, "The guys have been saying that we got to get together and stick to the same story, that it was our lives or them, a matter of survival. I told them I would tell the truth and I wouldn't get in trouble that...
...reports also destroy the story, reporting that only one Guardsman was seriously injured in the action before the firing, and that "the Guardsmen clearly did not believe that they were being fired upon." Photographs do not show Guardsmen crouching or seeking cover from rocks. And, the report says, "We have some reason to believe that the claim by Guardsmen that their lives were endangered by the students was fabricated after the fact...
...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...