Four Dead in Ohio

by External Media Posts · 05/06/2025

May 4th, 1970. Kent State University.

The war in Vietnam was a massacre. The students at Kent State had set up an encampment to protest this war crime against humanity. A genocide.

And the National Guard went in and mowed them down. Over 60 bullets fired in just 13 seconds.

13 were shot. 4 were killed: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder. HALF of the dead weren’t even protesting. They were just walking to class.

Shortly after, the New York Times was quick to report the justification concocted by the killers who ran the Ohio National Guard:

In Columbus, Sylvester Del Corso, Adjutant General of the Ohio National Guard, said in a statement that the guardsmen had been forced to shoot after a sniper opened fire against the troops from a nearby rooftop and the crowd began to move to encircle the guardsmen.

A lie. There was no sniper.

But that didn’t matter. The seed was planted in print, and then watered in a corroborating statement by President Nixon — also quoted by the NYTimes:

“This should remind us all once again that when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy. It is my hope that this tragic and unfortunate incident will strengthen the determination of all the nation’s campuses, administrators, faculty and students alike to stand firmly for the right which exists in this country of peaceful dissent and just as strongly against the resort to violence as a means of such expression.”

Another lie. The students were not violent.

Michael Moore May 4, 2025

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