Forty years ago there was a confrontation between student demonstrators and national guard troops on the campus of Kent State University that left four dead. Almost immediately a narrative emerged that portrayed the students as spontaneous demonstrators, innocents who were mercilessly gunned down by nervous guardsmen. But recently released FBI documents suggest otherwise. They show that the demonstrations, far from being spontaneous, were carefully planned, as was the torching of the ROTC building on campus. More interestingly, there is evidence to suggest that there was at least one sniper firing at the guardsmen.
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