A New Investigation of the Kent State Shootings
I’ve been asked about this a couple of times, so here’s my take…
A new analysis of an audiotape recorded at the time of the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings suggests — to at least one researcher — that pistol shots were fired not long before National Guard troops opened fire on antiwar protesters on the Ohio campus, killing four students.
In my experience, acoustic analysis is as much art as science, and any one expert’s claim should be taken with a grain of salt. What’s on the tape may be gunfire, and it may not.
Representative Dennis Kucinich is promising to lead an investigation into this new evidence, and that seems
