The American Heritage had an article on the Kent State shootings and as I recall a campus security officer named Myers said the reaction was called out after neighbors to the university became alarmed the night before over students coming back from demonstrations elsewhere, and thought they were or had been there all evening and early morning. Politically over-reaction resulted with the National Guard (which IMHO should be called the Ohio State Militia guaranteed under the Second Amendment, the original National Guard formed to protect the new United States government in NYC after the Jay Treaty ended the American Revolutionary War) called out, which today perhaps would be impossible, they are the new "Republican Guard" of Iraq. As a student at Buffalo University, NY back then, there were people there that had known people there when it happened and of those struck down. Attica State's prison "police riot" was a factor there involving some students reaching out in correspondence to those there incarcerated.
By: arielman on May 07, 2007 at 01:50pm
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