"Mary Vecchio [...] kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller who had been killed during a 13-second volley of gunfire by the National Guard on the Kent State University campus."
"John Cleary lies wounded after being shot by the National Guard, who left the area without offering to assist the students."
Kent May 4 CenterOne rumor has it that the Guardsmen were told the same night that they would never be prosecuted by the state of Ohio. And they never were. The Nixon administration stalled for years, announcing "investigations" that led nowhere; White House tapes subsequently released show that Nixon thought demonstrators were bums, asked the Secret Service to go beat them up, and apparently felt that the Kent State victims had it coming. As did most of the country; William Gordon calls the killings "the most popular murders ever committed in the United States."
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