The silence is deafening. If they won't investigate this why do you think they would investigate the JFK assassination, the 9/11 attacks, or all the other nefarious misdeeds government has had its hand in lo these many years.
"Justice Department won’t reopen Kent State shootings case; Enhanced audio recording had renewed interest" by Thomas J. Sheeran |
Associated Press, April 25, 2012
CLEVELAND - The Justice Department, citing “insurmountable
legal and evidentiary barriers,’’ will not reopen its investigation
into the 1970 shootings by Ohio National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War
protest at Kent State University.
Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez discussed the obstacles in a
letter to Alan Canfora, a wounded student who requested that the
investigation be reopened.
Four Kent State students died, and nine were hurt in the shootings,
which contributed to the change in the public’s attitude toward the war.
Yes, it was the anthem of a generation.
Canfora, who now directs the Kent May 4 Center, said the government’s decision is disappointing but not surprising.
The events of that chaotic day in Kent, Ohio, are still not fully
understood, and interest in the case was reignited because of a
recently enhanced audio recording.
A 2010 analysis of the recording concluded that someone may have
ordered National Guard troops to prepare to fire on students during the
protest. But Perez wrote to Canfora that a government review was
inconclusive in determining whether the recording provided such
evidence.
The original reel-to-reel audio recording was made by Terry Strubbe, a
student who placed a microphone in a windowsill of his dormitory that
overlooked the antiwar rally. Canfora found a copy of the audio tape in a
library archive in 2007.
The recording was enhanced and evaluated by Plainfield, N.J.-based
audio experts Stuart Allen and Tom Owen at the request of The Plain
Dealer in Cleveland. Both concluded that they hear someone shout,
“Guard!’’ Seconds later, a voice yells, “All right, prepare to fire!’’
“Get down!’’ someone shouts, presumably in the crowd. A voice then
says, “Guard! . . .’’ followed two seconds later by a booming volley of
gunshots.
Allen removed extraneous noises - wind blowing across the microphone, for example - that obscured recorded voices.
Allen’s review also uncovered four “thuds’’ more than a minute before
the guardsmen opened fire, which he believed may have been the sound
of a revolver.
In the letter, Perez said the sounds were probably Strubbe’s door
opening and closing. That conclusion is consistent with voices in his
room, Perez said.
On the issue of a command to fire, Perez said the government’s
analyst showed “no military-like voice commands to fire or otherwise
were heard; rather, many of the words heard were probably uttered by
several different individuals located closer to the microphone.’’
Canfora wrote a letter to Perez Monday and shared it with the
Associated Press. In it, Canfora wrote that he was disappointed but not
surprised by the government’s decision, and he renewed his call for an
outside review.
“I request your further independent investigation utilizing more
objective analysis of this crucial digital, forensic evidence,’’ Canfora
said. Otherwise, Canfora said, he would proceed with his own
investigation into a possible command to “fire.’’
In 1974, eight guardsmen tried on US civil rights charges were acquitted by a judge.
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Yeah, I guess the Justice Department is too busy suing Arizona, investigating in Seattle and Montana, and running guns to Mexican gangs to look into Kent State.
If you would like to hear more:
One Day Wonder: Kent State Cover-Up
Around AmeriKa: Ohio's Orders to Execute
