Now we are getting to know the truth, and know the name of the traitors involved who either fired, or set up the situation where orders were given to fire on American citizens exercising their right to free speech, right to assemble and right to peacefully seek redress of greivances. That is out and out treason and that officer who gave the order could then squeal on who gave him the order. Same with the person out of place in such an event. Sometime in the future we are simply going to have to decide. This has grown from one single shot now, out to assassinations of Americans without a trial. I can't even believe we didn't immediately rebel on that one.
Kent State Tribunal Hears New Forensic Evidence of Clear Order to Fire at Kent State, Backs Rep Kucinich in Call to Open Inquiry
http://www.commondreams.org/print/61275
October 12, 2010
Audio Tape Shows New Evidence of Pistol Firing Seconds Before Verified Order to Shoot
CONTACT: Kent State Truth Tribunal [1]
Laurel Krause,
PressKSTT@gmail.com [2]
or 707-357-2855
The tape also reveals startling evidence of an altercation with distinct gunshots from a separate weapon fired directly prior to the National Guard’s call to “Prepare to fire!”.
This same new evidence has prompted Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich to call for a congressional inquiry into the Kent State shootings. "Certainly we owe it to the memory of the students who lost their lives and their families and we owe it to the American people to find out the truth," Kucinich told Fox 8 News in Cleveland, Ohio.
The audio evidence of a separate .38 caliber gun firing 70 seconds prior to the guardsmen’s weapons suggests there may have been a provocation prior to the shooting of students. Photographs and testimonies point to the involvement of FBI informant, Terry Norman, who is believed to have fired the weapon.
Several students place him on campus that day working in tandem with the Ohio National Guard, carrying a camera and a pistol. "Now we have a tape that proves conclusively that four shots were fired before the National Guard volley," Congressman Dennis Kucinich said. "That has implications that are tremendous.
Who knows what would have happened if those shots hadn't been fired." Terry Norman has not commented about his activities at Kent State since the day of the shootings and his whereabouts are currently unknown. Kent State family members, as well as Representative Kucinich, have called for Mr. Norman to step forward to deliver information about his involvement at Kent State.
The Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT) was convened by family members of students killed at Kent State in response to forty years of impunity for the shootings. No one has been held accountable for the deaths and injuries that resulted when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students at a war protest on campus.
According to Laurel Krause, KSTT founder and sister of Allison Krause, who was killed that day, “The audio tape not only introduces compelling evidence that there was an order to fire on students, but also establishes that an additional weapon was fired just prior to the shootings, suggesting that the full scope of what took place that day has not yet been established.
We feel strongly that a government inquiry is long overdue and support wholeheartedly Rep. Kucinich’s call for a congressional inquiry. We also encourage Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice to respond to this new evidence by examining the audio tape and pursuing their own investigation.”
The 40 year-old audio tape was recorded from the window ledge of a Kent State student’s dormitory at the time of the shootings. The Kent State tape started recording minutes before the shooting and ran until after all of the shots were fired, verifying an audible order to fire.
According to Stuart Allen, who has been examining forensic audio evidence for nearly four decades since the Watergate scandal: “The order to shoot clearly does warrant a reopening of the investigation and the outcome will have a profound effect on our understanding of what took place. This technology and information was not available at the time of the investigations and multiple hearings on the Kent State shootings. ” Stuart Allen’s KSTT testimony can be seen at bit.ly/dakhWw [3]
Close to 100 personal narratives have already been recorded and preserved from people of all backgrounds whose lives were impacted by the killings at Kent State in 1970, representing a comprehensive oral archive of this historic event. It is the first American truth-seeking initiative to be broadcast live on the Internet on MichaelMoore.com
For more information, visit: http://www.truthtribunal.org/ [4]
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