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...even this lieutenant is anxious to kill students. But their attitudes display a distinct callousness to the fact that students can be hurt, and killed, by armed forces of law and order. When asked whether he had seen the pictures in Life of the Kent State incident and read the story, one officer replied, "I don't look at that magazine, they're a bunch of communists." Questioned further as to whether he thought the Guard had acted intelligently at Kent, the officer professed not to know the "facts...
Everyone wonders whether there will be another Kent State. The White House, in hopes of avoiding another such "inevitable tragedy," has issued orders to the Guard, requesting that ammunition not be issued on regular riot duty, except to certain specified marksmen who are instructed to fire only at snipers. But situations where "tired and frightened" men are faced by overtly hostile, rock-wielding demonstrators, sometimes grow out of control. Bayonets are also fatal weapons...
Whether there will be a Kent State somewhere else is a question that probably can not be answered in ways that would appear sensible in the White House. For the attitude of the officers, as much as the actions of the demonstrators, probably contributes to a Kent State. Men react as they are taught to react...
...This is the first time that people have gotten together to do anything for the two who were murdered at Jackson State. There was a real reaction after the Kent State killings, but so far no one has done anything for the blacks," Minor said...
...people think that it was not "proper and constitutional for the President to order troops into Cambodia without the consent of Congress." Forty-nine percent regard the move as having "divided" Americans more than before: 43% disagree. On one point, feelings were not ambiguous: even after the Kent State killings, only 27% express "sympathy" with student protests against the Cambodia action; 52% "condemn" such demonstrations. While 53% oppose the notion that antiwar demonstrations be declared illegal, 37% favor stifling such activity and 10% are not sure...