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MendoCoastCurrent, October 3, 2009, December 14, 2009, March 11, 2011
On May 4, 1970, 67 bullets were fired at protesting anti-Vietnam war students on the Kent State University campus. The 13-second discharge of the Ohio National Guard weapons devastatingly concluded four days of protests with the death of four and wounding of nine young American students.
In courtrooms over the next 10 years, all the way to the US Supreme Court and back, National Guardsmen and Ohio government officials testified the guardsmen marched away from the protesting Kent State students, up a hill, then turned in unison, to discharge M-1 rifles into unarmed, protesting students, many over a football field away — all claiming it occurred without an ‘order to shoot.’
It is believed, yet obviously still-to-be-proven, that an ‘order to shoot’ was indeed given at Kent State. Common sense and physics alone support this.
[At the Kent State Truth Tribunal in NYC October 2010, forensic evidence expert Stuart Allen examining the Kent State Tape ~ Discovered, presented and expert-verified the Kent State shootings order to shoot, read about it here ~ http://bit.ly/cO69Yx A violent alternation and sniper fire 70 seconds before the national guard barrage is recorded and verified on the tape. Watch Stuart Allen’s Kent State Truth Tribunal narrative here ~ http://bit.ly/dakhWw Allison’s family learned the truth about the killings at Kent State in 2010. Please visit the KSTT at http://TruthTribunal.org]
On May 4, 2009, Laurel Krause participated in the 39th Kent State commemoration for her sister, Allison Krause entitled Speaking Your Truth ~ http://bit.ly/9Zi1wQ). She concluded, “Triggers were not pulled accidentally at Kent State.”
With the 40th memorial approaching quickly, the Krause family is wishing to work with others to create a tribunal over the first four days in May at the Kent State University campus to uncover the facts about what occurred forty years earlier.
We are now launching the Kent State Truth Tribunal to discover, uncover and examine what really happened and to learn the PEOPLE’S TRUTHS about those four days in American history. Let’s explore through art, music, video interviews, poetry, enactments, rituals and discussions.
We see this as appropriate BOOKENDS to the event. When we uncover the final, long-sought-after truths of what occurred those Four Days in May so long ago…the truth shall set us free, history shall be corrected from hence day forth and we will share in this beautiful healing!
Won’t you please join us by helping to uncover the truth at Kent State at the 40th?
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December 2010, Congressman Dennis Kucinich offered to publish Kent State: Truth Emerging in this Cold Case Homicide by Laurel Krause in the United States Congressional Record. A current view on the Kent State shootings, killings from Allison Krause’s family.
Thank you for bringing this vital information to our attention.
Thank you for publicizing this. We must never forget that YES our government does kill its own citizens. We must find the truth and make them pay.
Oh wow. Thank you Laurel.
I was part of the generation of anti-war protesters in the 60s & 70s that experienced the agony of the Kent State Massacre. It was at that point in time when the peaceful demonstrations approach was not producing the desired results–an end to the war & draft. Both the government and a certain demoralized wing in the anti-war movement turned to violence.
The government mowed down black students at a southern university a few months later, going largely unnoticed. The Symbionese Liberation Army, Stanford bombings, Weather Underground, Patty Hearst kidnapping–all reflected the demoralization that set in after 5 years of massive peace rallies and marches hadn’t ended the carnage. Kent State was the first sign of government rage against the student led anti-war movement that would eventually prevail and end the war. The draft was ending around that time to try to dampen the fervor of anti-war forces, fueled by the draft.
The order to shoot on the tape is the key to Kent State truth, similar to the vital role of modern videos that expose truths, such as the racist Rodney King beating by LA police. One day there will be a statue in tribute to “4 Dead in Ohio”.
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While students were burning their draft cards to protest the war, the Vietnamese Buddhists’ answer to escalating US violence was self-immolation–setting themselves on fire in a public square as a message to the world to stop.
Individual life was less important than the lives of the whole Vietnamese people. Their culture, being collective, moved in a circular direction, unbroken through centuries of war. There was a strength there that prevailed against the mightiest of adversaries and finally won their country back.
The last shall be first and the first last.
Every time i come here I am not disappointed, nice post!
Greetings from Tim. :)
Thanks for the powerful post, Laurel. I hope that people will be open-minded enough to listen to the truth.
1969 fresman at a Michigan J.C. Room-mate ex Army vet anti war protester, me an Earth Day promulgant. Apartment invaded and ransacked by CIA/FBI…dragged downtown for questioning by FBI. Leveled loaded Browning auto 12 guage at FBI agents when they attempted forced entry two weeks later. They left us alone after that. After fear of draft dissipated, I enlisted in USMC…please don’t ask me why…and at my Secret Clearance background investigation, report from FBI came back “record not pertinent to this investigation”. Guess they figured I’d become one of them. Two court martials, a Bad conduct discharge, and subsequent General Review, allowed to finish my enlistment and received an Honorable Discharge. I single handedly effected a sea change in the Marine Corps. No more enlisted men sacrificed at the whim of assinine officers bent on their personal glory at the expense of enlisted men’s lives. Now I am 59 years old, 100% service connected disabled, still hung over from the injustices of those years. Yes, I did my time, essentially working undercover within the enemy’s ranks, and I did make a difference. But the Kent State injustice does indeed warrant our continuing search for the responsible parties. As an aside, as an eco nut, I went to work for one of the largest lumber companies and brought down their house of cards as well (Louisiana Pacific). I have lived an exciting and satisfying life; but the work seemingly never ends..and there is only my own internal reward. Works for me.
And now a Tunisian fruit vendor, who immolated himself rather than face life without his livelihood and dignity, has sparked mass protests for change in surrounding countries.
His burning body — a form of whistleblowing — was larger than his life and will forever find a place in the history books and in the hearts of the people. pt