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...TRUTH ABOUT KENT STATE...
Many acts of the Nixon Administration emerge in a more sinister light these days. That is especially true of the Justice Department's original refusal, under Attorney General John Mitchell, to seek any indictments of Ohio National Guardsmen for killing four Kent State students...
There is a curious parallel between the Justice Department's handling of the Kent State investigation and its initial Watergate studies. In both cases high Justice Department officials lavishly praised the thoroughness of the FBI's investigations-and then, apparently for political reasons, ignored the logical conclusions to be drawn from the evidence. At Kent State the evidence suggested that the shootings were "unwarranted" and that Guardsmen had "fabricated" self-protective excuses...
...alliance was imposed from the White House: Nixon's aggressive television speech announcing the invasion of Cambodia, coupled with the killings at Kent State, sparked resistance at Harvard and at hundreds of other campuses...
...times, and British Biographers Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie patiently retell it in more detail than has heretofore been marshaled in any single book. Wells was a sickly boy, the son of a servant mother and a father who would rather play cricket than run his failing crockery shop in Kent. Wells escaped from genteel poverty when he moved from draper's assistant to scholarship student at London University in 1884. There he came under the lasting influence of Darwin's disciple, T.E. Huxley. It is not hard to imagine how Wells would be impressed by a theory that...