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Algorem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:32 AM Original message |
Victim says tape of Kent State shootings reveals order to fire |
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ms liberty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. If true, this is pretty important...K&R n/t |
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liberalnurse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 10:42 AM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Darryl Issa, the repug congressman |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 03:00 PM Response to Reply #35 |
56. if he entered |
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Jelybe903 (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:45 PM Response to Reply #35 |
70. Deport Issa.... |
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MagickMuffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
2. Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'. |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. I had this as my earworm this morning. |
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lostnotforgotten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:58 AM Response to Original message |
3. Bush Would Love To Command The National Guard To Fire On Protesting Students |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 09:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
28. And if bushwad were to order the NG to shoot at VT students |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
4. As I recall this incident, didn't the National Guard claim they |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 07:47 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. No. That was never given as a possibility. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 07:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Just like a firing squad. |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:44 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. I thought it was that in a firing squad only one guy has a bullet |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:55 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. The George Tenet Syndrome: |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 09:37 AM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Thanks for the info. I don't understand why you wrote 'G. Tenet syndrome' |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 10:50 AM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Selective Memory |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:43 PM Response to Reply #20 |
53. never mind |
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farmbo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
5. What? Our government LIED to us?!... Off to Greatest Page for you. |
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wicket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
6. k & r |
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libnnc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
7. kick |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
9. Oh man... |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Not necessarily the military... |
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Decruiter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:44 PM Response to Reply #11 |
69. Rhodes was a perv too |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-01-07 12:47 AM Response to Reply #11 |
75. wow |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
12. That and these photos seem to corroborate one another |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 10:03 AM Response to Reply #12 |
31. That is Alan Canfora in the second picture, waving the black flag. I met him on a train |
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vincent_vega_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 11:39 AM Response to Reply #12 |
40. This appears to have been taken when |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:04 PM Response to Reply #12 |
47. Thanks for posting these photos. They are shown so very rarely. |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
13. Nominated. |
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ms liberty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
49. Thanks for the pic - perfect for this thread...n/t |
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MikeE (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
14. That is my alma mater |
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Solo_in_MD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:41 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Utter bullshit...no such thing, not even possible |
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MikeE (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:57 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. are you sure? |
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Solo_in_MD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 09:19 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Its an urban legend going back to the 60s |
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MikeE (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 09:29 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Thanks for the correction |
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ms liberty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:17 PM Response to Reply #26 |
48. Welcome to DU! n/t |
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Decruiter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:59 PM Response to Reply #26 |
72. Kent was my college, too, in the late 80's |
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vincent_vega_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 12:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
43. The weapons used by the National Guard were M1 Rifles |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:25 PM Response to Reply #43 |
50. M-1s or M-14s? |
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vincent_vega_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:29 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. The OHARNG had M1 Rifles during the Kent State incident.(n/t) |
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Show_Me _The_Truth (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
54. With a .308 no need for "bone tracing round" |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:13 AM Response to Original message |
15. Why is this tape at Yale? |
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Scooter24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 10:40 AM Response to Reply #15 |
34. Yale |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
16. re-open the investigation with Nixon's soul mate in office? |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 03:32 PM Response to Reply #16 |
58. no, reopen the investigation with the dems controlling congress n/t |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
17. I t has always been maintained by student witnesses that there was an order given to fire. |
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nannah (690 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 09:28 AM Response to Reply #17 |
25. my mother saw the first news report of the kent state shooting. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
24. How interesting, after 37 years this is coming to light. |
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rsdsharp (516 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
29. I'm having just a bit of trouble here. |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 10:00 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. That leaped out at me, too |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 10:10 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. It was most likely a National Guard commander |
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rsdsharp (516 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 11:19 AM Response to Reply #32 |
38. In 1970 the Ohio National Guard gave commands different |
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vincent_vega_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 11:41 AM Response to Reply #32 |
41. The ARNG uses the same doctrine and training as the |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:01 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. True but we can't have it both ways..... |
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vincent_vega_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:27 PM Response to Reply #46 |
51. Poorly trained in crowd control and civil defense |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-01-07 01:28 AM Response to Reply #51 |
76. Not quite. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 11:15 AM Response to Reply #29 |
37. I think "get set" means get into firing position. "Point" rather than "aim" means |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 03:33 PM Response to Reply #29 |
59. maybe it's a guard thing. n/t |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 03:54 PM Response to Reply #29 |
62. For all anyone knows, it could have been one of the protesters yelling that out |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 04:19 PM Response to Reply #29 |
64. This goes both ways... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
33. That's what we heard at the time from bystanders |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 11:29 AM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Re-open it - go for justice. The U.S. is the number hypocritical |
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Lord Balto (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 03:48 PM Response to Reply #39 |
61. Then Again |
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mtnester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 05:43 PM Response to Reply #33 |
67. It was ordered |
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vincent_vega_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
42. This type of escalation of violence is common |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
44. Overlooked? More like buried. nt |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 12:36 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. yes - who managed to get this tape buried so deeply that it's taken 37 years |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 01:54 PM Response to Reply #45 |
55. Well, I personally haven't heard the tape |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 03:14 PM Response to Reply #44 |
57. Of course it was - those students were murdered by their government. |
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anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
60. I want the names of those guardsmen up on a web site, I want them shamed for life |
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anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 05:07 PM Response to Reply #60 |
65. and Governor Rhodes can burn in hell as well n/t |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
63. Just imagine if several weapons of the type recently stolen from the vehicle of a out-of-state SWAT... |
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anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
66. Let's not forget the Jackson State killings either... |
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
68. Aren't guns on campuses a wonderful thing? n/t |
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FogerRox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
71. Scuse the screamin |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
73. "somehow" overlooked? |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-30-07 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
74. Interesting... |
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Algorem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-01-07 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
77. tape's out- " Kent St. tape: 'Point! Fire!' " -audio link- |
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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-01-07 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
78. Report: Command to open fire heard on Kent State tape |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-01-07 06:13 PM Response to Reply #78 |
79. It was on here yesterday |
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