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...their noon classes. He said that students were 50 yards away from the nearest soldiers-contrary to the grand jury's claim that the Guardsmen were surrounded. Rhodes produced unpublished photographs which documented this claim. Demonstrators had not yet thrown any rocks he said, and there was never any sniper fire...
...commission, however, was unable to determine whether the police had been subjected to sniper fire, and that is the report's greatest weakness. Police claim that they opened fire on the students only in self-defense. But the report clearly condemned the ferocity of police response. "Even if there was sniper fire-a question on which we have found conflicting evidence," it stated, "the 28-second barrage of lethal gunfire . . . was completely unwarranted and unjustified." The commission also cast doubts on police contentions that they had fired over the heads of the crowd. Both of the dead students...
Turning to Kent State, the commission "strongly suggested that no sniper fire preceded the 61-shot National Guard fusillade that resulted in the death of four students. It also took Guard leaders to task for allowing Guardsmen to carry live ammunition on campus. In contrast to the police at Jackson, however, Guardsmen at Kent State were portrayed as panic-stricken, acting out of confusion and fear...
Accepted into the Royal Military Academy, he was appalled at the corruption and laziness that existed in King Farouk's army. During the 1948 war against the new state of Israel, Major Nasser was wounded in the shoulder by sniper fire during one battle, and his unit was surrounded by the Israelis at Faluja. In his newly published Genesis 1948, former Foreign Correspondent Dan Kurzman records a fascinating encounter?arranged during a temporary truce?between the hard-pressed young major and Yeroham Cohen, aide to an Israeli commander named Yigal Allon, now Israel's Deputy Premier. Nasser seemed more bitter...
...Guardsmen were not under sniper fire. "Nothing was found to indicate that anyone other than a Guardsman discharged a firearm during the incident," the report said...