Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hardly anyone seemed more dazed by the killing of four students at Kent State University than President Robert I. White. He was speechless even when an Ohio grand jury blamed the tragedy on Kent's "permissiveness" rather than the National Guardsmen who did the shooting. But he had reason for silence: the presiding judge forbade him and 300 others who testified from making any "critical comments." Last week, six days after a federal judge removed his legal gag, White spoke out with a blast at what he views as a new threat looming on U.S. campuses...
...indictments of students and professors rather than National Guardsmen at Kent State [Oct. 26] suggest that it is a crime to throw rocks and shout obscenities, yet legally justified to fire bullets into a crowd of people...
...officer in the Ohio National Guard who witnessed the May 4 Kent State shootings and claims that the lives of the Guardsmen were not in jeopardy, was not called as a witness by the Ohio State Grand Jury that investigated the shootings...
...Finally, the summary says that in the FBI interviews with Guardsmen, mention of imminent danger occurs "almost as an afterthought ... We have some reason to believe that the claim . . . that their lives were endangered by the students was fabricated subsequent to the event...
...interview in the Detroit Free Press, Ford said that the National Guardsmen on the campus last May "should have shot all" troublemakers, and that the incidents were Communist-inspired. "I think the whole damn country is not going to quiet down until the police are ordered to shoot to kill." Of the Kent shootings, he said: "The point is, it stopped the riot-you can't argue with that. It just stopped it flat." As Ford spoke, according to Reporter William Schmidt, he toyed with a .45-cal. pistol he keeps near his desk and kidded: "I could shoot...