Library’s recording may clarify Kent State killings
An audiocassette that has sat in a Yale library for nearly two decades may hold the evidence explaining why Ohio National Guard troops shot into a crowd of war protesters at Kent State University in 1970.
The recording, made public this week by a victim of the shooting, seems to capture the sound of someone ordering the Guardsmen to fire on students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine. Now, 33 years after eight of the Guardsmen were acquitted of any wrongdoing, some survivors of the shooting are calling for the investigation of the case to be reopened in...
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