Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. As the A.F.S.C.M.E. vowed that it would "shut down the State of Ohio," the strike hit prisons, mental hospitals and state-controlled liquor stores. Fearing that the strike would close the state's 290 liquor stores, many Ohioans ventured into Indiana to stock up on potables. National Guardsmen who were dispatched to the maximum-security prison in Lucasville were unable to penetrate the massed pickets at the prison gates; the Guardsmen entered the penitentiary by helicopter...
...MORNING AFTER National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University, several hundred students at Forest Hills High Schools in New York City walked out of school. As the angry students milled about the building--liberals' "Don't forget Kent State" mingling with radicals' "Organize to smash the state"--the school's principal noticed that someone had dropped a briefcase on the floor. "Get hat briefcase out of here," he snapped. "What will people think...
...later dropped, against some student leaders, and written a report, later thrown out by a court, exonerating the Guard. Not until last year, with the high feelings of 1970 down considerably, did the Justice Department reopen the case--a federal grand jury recently returned indictments against a number of Guardsmen...
...reopened at all testifies to the hold it continues to exert on people's minds--along with a continuing stream of magazine articles and books on the subject, which some people presumably read. There are limits, naturally. Associated Press releases generally say that four students "were killed" after National Guardsmen "were sent" on campus, suggesting that both events were acts of God which no one else could possibly be held responsible for. Similarly, the new grand jury naturally investigated the individual Guardsmen who fired shots, not the people--President Nixon, Spiro T. Agnew, Governor Rhodes--who made the shootings possible...
...extend to everyone. That's why Jackson State was less surprising than Kent State, or why no one paid much attention when Justice Douglas tried to stay the bombing of Cambodia so the Supreme Court could rule on it first. If he'd stayed an order to National Guardsmen to shoot down student demonstrators, presumably he'd have been upheld...