Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pierce is among those Guardsmen the Guard lists as having fired on students during demonstrations against the American invasion of Cambodia in May 1970. Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine during the demonstration...
...fatal shooting of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen in May 1970 is a tragedy that has never been satisfactorily explained, and until recently there was little hope that it ever would be. The state grand jury that investigated the killings indicted 25 students and others for acts of rioting and other violations, some of which presumably provoked the Guardsmen's rifle fire; 23 of them were eventually cleared. None of the Guardsmen or their officers were ever legally charged with violations, though their conduct was sharply criticized by FBI investigations and a presidential commission headed...
...that it "developed" in a recent informal inquiry. Justice officials decline to elaborate and stress that they are not seeking indictments at this stage. Yet in the grand jury hearings they will surely ask who fired the first shot and why-and whether there was a conspiracy among the Guardsmen to shoot the students. U.S. attorneys will also introduce to the jury important evidence that was never seen by the original Ohio panel...
...analyzing some 8,000 pages of FBI reports, concluded that the Guard units called to Kent State were not surrounded by hostile students and that they were responsible for unwarranted killings; that they fired at students when they were in no real danger themselves. Justice officials said that the Guardsmen's defense that they opened fire to protect themselves seemed to be "fabricated...
...early September 1971, 1200 prisoners revolted at Attica prison, taking 32 guards as hostages. After four days of negotiations without settlement, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller authorized 1000 National Guardsmen to enter the prison. 28 prisoners and nine hostages were killed in the Guard attack...