Word: kent
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...immediately after the killing of four students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University, the FBI began an extensive investigation that eventually filled some 8,000 pages. Last week Attorney General John Mitchell announced that the reports did not warrant "further action by the Department of Justice." Mitchell said that he agreed with the President's Commission on Campus Unrest that the shooting was "unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable." But he found no evidence of a conspiracy among National Guardsmen to shoot the students. Nor, he said, was there any "likelihood of successful prosecutions of individual Guardsmen. We can only...
When he assumed the task, switching from what must have seemed the comparative serenity of his job as Under Secretary of State, Richardson was briefly billed as "Supersecretary," a mild-mannered Brahmin with the blandly earnest good looks of Clark Kent, and an administrative near genius invulnerable to any misadventure short of an adversary wielding Kryptonite. In the months since, he has become one of the three strong men of the Nixon Cabinet-with Attorney General John Mitchell and Treasury Secretary John Connally. Probably as much as any man can, he has brought order to his massive fief, although...
...guilt for the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and exonerated the National Guardsmen who fired into the crowd of demonstrators. But in making its report, the jury exceeded its authority under state law, and its findings were judged illegal by a federal court; they were ordered expunged from the public record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were allowed...
...study, based on work by Peter Davies, a New York insurance broker who developed a private passion for the case, does not claim access to any new evidence of those tragic 13 seconds of firing on Blanket Hill. Citing federal investigations and a recent book by James Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why (TIME, May 3), Davies argues deductively that the deaths resulted from a conspiracy by at least some of the Guardsmen. He suggests that discrepancies in Guardsmen's testimony and photographs of the shooting-including a picture of a huddle at the bottom of the hill...
...report concludes with a plea for a high-level federal inquiry into the question of the National Guard's actions and motivations that day at Kent State. A Justice Department official, insisting that the study contained no new information, announced that the Government had not yet decided whether to call for a federal grand jury hearing into the charges. At week's end, the spokesman said, the matter was "under review at the highest authority...