Kent State: Shots Fire PRIOR To Guardsmen Opening Fire on Demonstrators

The WaPo has posted an article that there is now definitive proof that shots were fired BEFORE the National Guardsmen shot into the rioting anti-government demonstrators.   

CLEVELAND - A tape recording of the 1970 shooting deaths of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen reveals the sound of pistol shots 70 seconds earlier, a newspaper reported Friday citing the work of a forensic audio expert.


The finding lends support to a theory that the guardsmen thought they were being shot at during a campus Vietnam War protest. Witnesses said at the time that an FBI informant monitoring the protest fired warning shots because he felt threatened.

The National Guard opened fire on student protesters on May 4, 1970, killing four and injuring nine others. Eight guardsmen were acquitted of federal civil rights charges four years later. Many believe the events contributed to the change in the public's attitude toward the war, which ended five years later.

The reel-to-reel audio recording was made by a Kent State student who placed a microphone at a windowsill in his dormitory, which overlooked the antiwar rally. He later turned the tape over to the FBI. A copy eventually wound up in a Yale University archive.

Now if the MSM and accepted conventional wisdom will admit that there were in fact  grounds for the National Guardsmen's belief that they were being fired upon by the demonstrators, then they will be finally vindicated.  I'm not holding my breath.