Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ohio grand jury last week blamed Kent State students for provoking the shooting in which four students were killed, explaining that "the level of verbal abuse directed at the Guardsmen by the students... represented a level of obscenity and vulgarity which we have never before witnessed...
...campus. He was charged with second-degree rioting during the disturbances of May 1 to 4. Thomas S. Lough, 42, an associate professor of sociology and anthropology, surrendered on a count of inciting to riot May 4, the day four Kent students were killed in a clash with National Guardsmen...
Rhodes also labeled as "absolute bullshit" the grand jury's claim that 200 bricks had been stolen from a nearby construction site and were being hurled at the Guardsmen...
...fact is that the Guard had lied under direct testimony, and that they cannot be trusted as to whether or not they were in danger," Rhodes said. He was referring to sworn testimony by several Guardsmen to the Seranton Commission that they had fired only 11 shots. The President's Commission later found that the Guardsmen had fired over 60 shots, which hit 14 students, all but four of them in the back or in the side...
Prior to appointing the grand jury, Ohio Attorney General Paul W. Brown said on August 14, "I don't see any evidence upon which a grand jury would indict any Guardsmen." Brown added that he would feel obligated to personally provide a defense for any Guardsmen who might be indicted...