Word: guardsmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...legality of the shootings remains an open question, since federal action against some Guardsmen is still possible. But it was clear that some of the jury's key conclusions conflicted in whole or in part with those of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which made an exhaustive investigation of the tragedy, and the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, headed by former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton. In New Haven, Police Chief James Ahern, a member of the Scranton commission, said flatly that the grand jury's findings concerning the Guardsmen were "inconsistent with the facts...
...impede criminal investigations-called the decision to disperse the then peaceful rally "a serious error," and the manner in which it was done "disastrous." THE SHOOTINGS. The grand jury was critical of the Guard's commanders at Kent State for placing their men in danger. But of the Guardsmen who actually did the shooting, the jury said: "They fired their weapons in the honest and sincere belief and under circumstances which would have logically caused them to believe that they would suffer serious bodily injury had they not done so. They are not, therefore, subject to criminal prosecution under...
...said that the shootings "were not necessary and not in order"; the Guardsmen were not surrounded and not in real danger...
After four students at Kent State University were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen last May, the incident stayed on the front pages of newspapers for weeks. Even today, five months later, the aftermath of the confrontation still makes news. But when students at the predominantly black South Carolina State College in Orangeburg clashed with police on Feb. 8, 1968, newsmen covered the event sparsely, inaccurately, or not at all. Though three students were killed in Orangeburg and 27 others were wounded, the tragedy was effectively ignored by most of the world...
Morgan was among those arrested Monday. Charges of second degree rioting against him stem from the events of last May 4 when four Kent State students were killed by gunfire fromthe M-1 rifles of Ohio National Guardsmen...