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5-4-2008 5:08 PM368 views
This reporter, who was with the group of students, did not see any indication of sniper fire, nor was the sound of any gunfire audible before the Guard volley. Students, conceding that rocks had been thrown, heatedly denied that there was any sniper.

Gov. James A. Rhodes called on J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to aid in looking into the campus violence. A Justice Department spokesman said no decision had been made to investigate. At 2:10 this afternoon, after the shootings, the university president, Robert I. White, ordered the university closed for an indefinite time, and officials were making plans to evacuate the dormitories and bus out-of-state students to nearby cities.
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5-4-2008 5:11 PM
kkcapricorn
Robinson Memorial Hospital identified the dead students as Allison Krause, 19 years old, of Pittsburgh; Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, of Youngstown, Ohio, both coeds; Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, of 22 Diamond Drive, Plainsview, L.I., and William K. Schroeder, 19, of Lorain, Ohio.

At 10:30 P.M. the hospital said that six students had been treated for gunshot wounds. Three were reported in critical condition and three in fair condition. Two others with superficial wounds were treated and released.

Students here, angered by the expansion of the war into Cambodia, have held demonstrations for the last three nights. On Saturday night, the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps building was burned to the ...
5-4-2008 6:42 PM
righthand
President Nixon deplored the deaths of the four students in the following statement:

"This should remind us all once again that when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy.
It must have been unusual back then for the murdered to be branded as virtual suicide victims, responsible for their own deaths. This is more usual today. Palestinian children and mothers practice this crime regularly nowadays according to Zionist spokespersons.
5-8-2008 5:48 PM
masbury
What on earth were troops with fixed bayonets doing advancing on unarmed college kids? Why on earth was no one ever convicted of murder?

One of the students killed was a passer-by, an ROTC student.

It was a pivotal moment in the minds of many of us, who never again felt confidence that government was for the people.
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