Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting

a_nonamiss writes "The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting today on new forensic analysis by audio scientists Stuart Allen and Tom Owen on a recently discovered audio tape from the Kent State shootings. The analysis suggests that four shots from a .38-caliber pistol were fired 70 seconds before the National Guard opened fire on a crowd of student protesters, killing four and wounding nine others. The alleged shooter, student Terry Norman, was hired by the FBI to take photos of the protesters. It has been known for some time that he had a .38-caliber pistol on his person the day of the shootings, but he has always claimed that the gun was not fired during the protest, a claim that was backed up in sworn testimony from authorities at the time."

Comments

Re:Cause and Effect

[Anonymous Coward]

kill yourself, fascist

no firearms != unarmed

[ChipMonk]

Rocks, bottles, bricks... It happens all over the world, and it happened in Kent. Ever been hit in the face with a thrown rock? It won't just leave a bruise; you WILL require surgery, and pray to God you don't have a fractured skull or spinal column (the likely result if the rock busts through your teeth into your mouth).

Re:no firearms != unarmed

[ChipMonk]

If a fuel tanker had overturned on a campus street, what would the school have done? Notify the authorities, help secure the area, and pass word to the departments, so they could inform their students about the danger.

That they didn't do so in this case, so the school shares the fault with the members of the mob who were trying to use by-standers as human shields.

Re:Cause and Effect

[DesScorp]

Looks like the FBI fired first.

Based on what, besides your paranoid conspiracy theories? The photographer wasn't an FBI agent, he essentially took a free lance job from them. And this tape doesn't necessarily prove that HE was the shooter, just that someone fired 38 caliber bullets before the National Guard opened fire.

People here keep assuming that it was some federal conspiracy, when it's more likely it was the work of some radical students. This WAS the era of the SDS and Weathermen, after all. It's not like there weren't any students that were willing to, oh, kill people to achieve their political objectives.

Re:The whole thing could have been planned.

[c6gunner]

Seems more likely that some idiot protesters accused him of being an "agent provocateur", attacked him, he panicked and pulled his gun.