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Kent State
A tragic thirteen seconds on a sunny day in May
The Two Perspectives of the Kent State Shootings:
• It was the National Guard’s / the US Government’s fault
• It was the protesters fault
It was the National Guard’s fault
• The closest student shot was fully sixty feet away; all but one were more than 100 feet away; all but two were more than 200 feet away. One of the dead was 255 feet away; the rest were 300 to 400 feet away. The most distant student shot was more than 700 feet from the Guardsmen.
• The protesters were not armed. • Students had been released from class at 12:30 and
approximately 200 students converged on the common for a break from class. The guardsmen misinterpreted this as an illegal assembly. Shots were fired at 12:34.
• Around 67 rounds were fired into the crowd
Pulitzer Prize photo of Mary Vecchio and victim Jeffrey Miller
…”Point, FIRE!”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mid-j9Ki49s
It was the protester’s fault
• On May 3rd, protesters had gathered in downtown Kent and smashed store windows and looted a jewelry store.
• On May 2nd, more than 1000 protesters are estimated to have gathered at the commons on the Kent State campus .
• Protesters are thought to have caused a fire that burned the campus ROTC building to the ground.
• By May 4th, it is estimated that 3000 students had gathered on the campus at Kent State. Many protesters were throwing rocks at the guardsmen.
• The students had been ordered to disperse by university officials.
It was the protester’s fault
How do you see it?
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