Word: guardsmen
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Many acts of the Nixon Administration emerge in a more sinister light these days. That is especially true of the Justice Department's original refusal, under Attorney General John Mitchell, to seek any indictments of Ohio National Guardsmen for killing four Kent State students...
...initial Watergate studies. In both cases high Justice Department officials lavishly praised the thoroughness of the FBI's investigations-and then, apparently for political reasons, ignored the logical conclusions to be drawn from the evidence. At Kent State the evidence suggested that the shootings were "unwarranted" and that Guardsmen had "fabricated" self-protective excuses...
Peter Davies' book is primarily a concise and easily followed compilation of the essential facts upon which Guardsmen might possibly be prosecuted. It is also an account of the agonizing struggle by parents of the Kent State victims, various church groups and Davies himself to convince an unresponsive Nixon Administration that a federal grand jury should examine the matter thoroughly. With the jury's power to issue subpoenas and grant immunity, Davies argues, the still obscure truth of precisely why the Guardsmen fired their guns could be secured. Davies, 42, is a New York City insurance broker...
Illustrated with some precise, previously unpublished photographs, the book convincingly dispels initial claims by Guardsmen that their lives were endangered by an onrushing mob of students, that they were encircled and had run out of tear gas, and that they had come under fire from an unknown sniper. Davies, along with the President's Scranton commission, the FBI and every journalist who has written a Kent State book, presents contrary evidence on all these points. At the time that the Guardsmen suddenly wheeled and fired from a vantage point atop a hill, they had already dispersed the crowd...
Wald's Speech entitled. "To Re-possess America," was given at Kent State Last May to initiate the Lectureship for Peaceful Change series established there in recognition of the four students who were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen...