KSU tragedy under investigation
newsrecord.org | May 24th 2011 11:05 PM
More than 30 years after the May 4 Kent State University shooting during
which National Guardsmen fired on a crowd of protesting college students,
killing four and injuring nine, a push for a new inquiry may end up spurring
a new investigation.
Laurel Krause, sister of the victim Allison Krause, is lobbying for a
reexamination due to new evidence.
Stuart Allen, a New Jersey forensic audio expert who analyzed a reel-to-reel
recording of the incident made by a KSU student, reported in October 2010 to
have heard an order to fire on the students.
The recording was created by Terry Stubbe, a KSU student in 1970. Stubble
set up a microphone in his dorm recording the demonstration and the
13-second shooting.
The tape was given to Allen from Alan Canfora, one of the students injured
in the shootings.
Allen reported hearing someone shouting, "Fir-" immediately before the
troops fired. Allen also reported hearing what he believes to be a .45
caliber handgun being fired before the call to pull the trigger.
Canfora has presented the evidence to the U.S. Justice Department in 2010
and, if there is no federal investigation of the incident, Canfora plans to
take the matter to court himself.
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