{"id":18966,"date":"2010-05-04T10:12:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18966"},"modified":"2010-05-04T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T15:21:25","slug":"fbi-shots-fired-at-ng-in-kent-state-1970-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18966","title":{"rendered":"FBI: Shots fired at NG in Kent State 1970 incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Washington Times<\/a> reports that newly released documents in the May 1970 Kent State shooting of several students by National Guard troops state the the troops may have been provoked by a sniper;<\/p>\n

“We did it,” one man exulted, according to the inquiry. “We got the riot started.”<\/p>\n

The second man expressed disappointment at being excluded from the riot’s planning. “Wait until tomorrow night,” the leader replied excitedly. “We just got the word. We’re going to burn the ROTC building.”<\/p>\n

This was 20 hours before the ROTC headquarters on the Kent State campus, an old wooden frame building, was, in fact, burned to the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the classic media account that the National Guard fired for no real reason, the FBI had evidence to the contrary;<\/p>\n

Yet the declassified FBI files show the FBI already had developed credible evidence suggesting that there was indeed a sniper and that one or more shots may have been fired at the guardsmen first.<\/p>\n

Rumors of a sniper had circulated for at least a day before the fatal confrontation, the documents show. And a memorandum sent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on May 19, 1970, referred to bullet holes found in a tree and a statue \u2014 evidence, the report stated, that “indicated that at least two shots had been fired at the National Guard.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s too bad that the FBI didn’t pursue the investigation and nab the shooters or at least narrow it down to a particular group (I have my suspicions).<\/p>\n

At a minimum, the FBI documents strongly challenge the received narrative that the rioting in downtown Kent was spontaneous and unplanned, that the burning of the ROTC headquarters was similarly impulsive and that the guardsmen’s fatal shootings were explicable only as unprovoked acts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the shootings had the opposite result that any conspirators had imagined since Kent State was the beginning of the end of the anti-war protests. it seems that gunfire had a quenching effect on the gutless hippies who were really only protesting for their own own comfort rather than any grandiose ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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