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...clear that some of the jury's key conclusions conflicted in whole or in part with those of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which made an exhaustive investigation of the tragedy, and the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, headed by former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton. In New Haven, Police Chief James Ahern, a member of the Scranton commission, said flatly that the grand jury's findings concerning the Guardsmen were "inconsistent with the facts." On the Kent State campus, students held a peaceful rally and some were raising funds for the defense of those indicted...
...special jury, sitting in Ravenna, six miles from the campus, heard more than 300 witnesses, and had available to it both the Scranton and FBI reports. The grand jurors saw what happened this...
...contrast, the Scranton commission's special report on ' Kent State -which noted that it was avoiding any assessment of guilt in order not to impede criminal investigations-called the decision to disperse the then peaceful rally "a serious error," and the manner in which it was done "disastrous." THE SHOOTINGS. The grand jury was critical of the Guard's commanders at Kent State for placing their men in danger. But of the Guardsmen who actually did the shooting, the jury said: "They fired their weapons in the honest and sincere belief and under circumstances which would have...
...that ineffective policies over a period of years had rendered the uni versity "totally incapable of reacting ... in any effective manner." The university, the jury found, "can no longer regulate the activities of either [students or faculty] and is particularly vulnerable to any pressure applied from radical elements." The Scranton commission, while avoiding direct critical comment on the school's administrators, noted that Kent State President Robert White had been on a trip out of the state during two of the four days of rioting. At the time of the shooting, he was having lunch off campus...
Richard Nixon originally appointed the Scranton commission because of the bloodshed at Jackson State and Kent State universities. Having reported first on the general tensions between students and society, the group has now turned to specific cases. The last two reports it has released leave no ground for charges of being "imprecise" or "equivocal." Instead, they come down hard on Mississippi policemen and strongly criticize the Ohio National Guard for their indiscriminate firing at students last spring...