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...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...
...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...
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Illustrated with some precise, previously unpublished photographs, the book convincingly dispels initial claims by Guardsmen that their lives were endangered by an onrushing mob of students, that they were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...