Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
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President Nixon had a longstanding grudge against Kent anti-war protesters who had interrupted his campaign speech at the University of Akron (Ohio) in October of 1968 and his inauguration parade on January 20, 1969, in Washington, DC. President Nixon spoke by telephone twice with Ohio Governor James Rhodes during the days just BEFORE the Kent State massacre.
Did Nixon give the OK for his pal Governor Rhodes in Ohio to plan the Kent State massacre? Why would Governor Rhodes encourage his Ohio National Guard to kill students?
Rhodes wanted to crack down on militant Kent students in order to win votes for his May 5, 1970, election which was one day AFTER the May 4 Kent massacre. Rhodes was behind in the polls by 8% only one week before the May 5 Ohio Republican Party primary election. After Rhodes' inflammatory speech in Kent on May 3 and the massacre May 4, Rhodes confused conservative voters but still lost his May 5 election but only by less than 1% of the votes in his US Senate primary election.
The Nixon-Rhodes-National Guard conspiracy failed--Rhodes still lost his election and 5,000,000 American students protested during the national student strike in May 1970 when over 500 campuses closed down.
As for the Ohio National Guard role in the conspiracy, there is a clear, strong connection between Rhodes and his generals at Kent State--Sylvester Del Corso and Robert Canterbury. How these generals and other officers conspired with the hardcore killer triggermen in Troop G remains to be uncovered.
However, it's clear that there was a verbal order to fire and a dozen TROOP G killers stopped, turned, began to shoot and continued to fire 67 times into our crowd of unarmed students. The well-coordinated actions of these triggermen seemed quite planned and executed like a firing squad upon orders to shoot.
A conspiracy? We seem to be viewing the evidence of conspiracy like we're putting together the pieces of a large puzzle. Someday, when the triggermen and ONG officers speak the truth, we will see the full picture. I'm convinced we will see a full-blown conspiracy picture.
It's impossible now to PROVE a conspiracy. However, there's evidence that leads many of us to speculate that there may have been a conspiracy to commit murder at Kent State. The evidence:
President Nixon was long aware of strong anti-war, anti-Nixon protests at Kent State;
Ohio Governor James Rhodes, a conservative, pro-war, Republican friend of President Nixon, spoke with the White House on the phone twice during the weekend of the Kent rebellion in May, 1970;
Governor Rhodes was 8% behind in pre-election polls one week before his May 5, 1970, election--so Rhodes came to Kent personally and made a widely- publicized speech that condemned the Kent students in an exaggerated way;
Governor Rhodes was with Ohio National Guard General Sylvester Del Corso. Del Corso was a hardcore conservative pro-war man who often delivered Ohio speeches condemning student anti-war protesters;
when the KSU students failed to adequately burn the ROTC building on Saturday night, May 2, 1970, there's reason to believe that the fire was re-started AFTER the building was controlled by law enforcement personnel and after students were chased away:
the suspicious ROTC fire was the excuse to bring in the Ohio National Guard and that was followed by the governor's controversial speech;
while the ONG first attacked on May 4, 1970, they suddenly prevented the TV and news media to stop following the troops as they began their march on the unarmed students who were being tear-gassed and chased by the marching troops; Why? Did the ONG know they were going to shoot students even before they marched against the students?
within minutes, the ONG troops and teargas chased all the protesters away over a hilltop--why did the ONG follow up and then down the hill? So they could better locate and shoot the most vocal and militant students;
on two occasions before the shootings, for no logical reason, the ONG troops stopped and aimed their powerful M1 rifles at unarmed student protesters;
while the ONG was assembled on the practice football field, minutes BEFORE they marched up the hill and fired, Colonel Charles Fassinger told his men to prepare to fire when they reached the hilltop if the students were viewed as a threat;
when the troops then marched up the hill and fired, among those 76 men, only about a dozen from Troop G--standing altogether in a close line-- stopped, turned and fired and continued to fire a total of 67 shots during 13 seconds of murderous gunfire;
at least one officer admits he ordered his men to "FIRE over their heads!" Several of the ONG triggermen later admitted they heard a verbal order to fire;
after the massacre, the troops only admitted to firing 31 bullets; immediately after the massacre, several guardsmen "conveniently" stationed near where the victims fell, marched to Jeff Miller's freshly-dead body. One officer stooped and pretended to find a pistol on Jeff's dead body (the same ONG officer claimed he found "brass knuckles" on another student protester. The officer later admitted he planted these items in an attempt to blame the students as "violent");
other possibly well-planned excuses and cover-ups were used immediately such as: lies about student snipers firing gunshots before the ONG shot; lies about rocks and other objects thrown at the ONG; lies about students being "three feet away" from the ONG and rushing the soldiers and threatening the lives of the ONG;
two news conferences by ONG General Robert Canterbury included lies, cover-ups and misinformation that effectively confused the American people;
the victims were immediately blamed by the ONG, Governor Rhodes and President Nixon;
the Ohio and Federal courts and investigators, were prevented from fair investigations by Ohio Governor Rhodes and President Nixon;
the triggermen have never served a day in jail for their crimes;
the triggermen and commanding officers have cooperated in a conspiracy of silence for nearly 30 years;
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We now know that after RFK was gone we got Nixon and all that came with it.
The lies, politics, subragation had started.
