re: #37 ObserverArt

Yeah, a sniper who usually is in a hidden position.

So, what did the guard do, turn and fire on students clearly both running away and milling about watching from a distance.

There is no single political act that gets me pissed of more than Kent State. I guess because I was almost 16 and at a very impressionable age and an Ohioan that lived maybe an hour away.

Wait…I have to reconsider. Trump getting elected might be edging Kent State out…

I highly recommend James A. Michener’s book Kent State, What Happened and Why. Michener was already in his 60s at the time and primarily a fiction writer so he offers a little different perspective from many of the histories.
Among other things, he sheds some light on a now almost forgotten but especially odious aspect of the aftermath: The huge outpouring of right wing support for the Guard and the initially absurd official line. The infamous Hard Hat riots, instigated by Peter Brennan, who later became Nixon’s Secretary of Labor, occurred just 4 days later.
Wikipedia again

A Gallup Poll taken immediately after the shootings reportedly showed that 58 percent of respondents blamed the students, 11 percent blamed the National Guard and 31 percent expressed no opinion…….
Students from Kent State and other universities often got a hostile reaction upon returning home. Some were told that more students should have been killed to teach student protesters a lesson; some students were disowned by their families.

It was similar in many ways to the similarly forgotten public support for Lt. William Calley during and after his court martial for the My Lai massacre. Nixon’s base was actually ahead of him in justifying the incident, something we now see with Trump.