"...We stood for a few seconds watching the soldiers move out behind a screen of gas, before deciding to retreat with the crowd of students.
"...A gas cannister landed at our feet, exploding in our faces...
"After a few seconds of recovery, Allison turned in her tracks and froze. She stood in the path of the pursuing troops screaming at the top of her lungs...The hand drawn to her face, holds a wet rag used to protect herself from the gas, and her other hand holds mine, with which I pulled her over the hill and into the parking lot, a safe distance from the troops.
"For several minutes we stood in the parking lot watching these men threaten us with their rifles...And then they turned..."
In his 1981 book Mayday: Kent State, J. Gregroy Payne also noted the following:
"In the fall of 1980, additional information from the FBI investigation on Kent State housed at the National Archives was released to the public. This information revealed that President Nixon instructed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover--who thought the four victims `got what they deserved'--to find information in the fall of 1970 to substantiate the Guardsmen's claims about the incident. Nixon's directive was issued during the FBI's investigation of the incident. Despite the recent shocking revelations, thousands of pages of the FBI report remain classified, therefore, unavailable for public scrutiny..."
(Downtown 4/27/94)
2 comments:
Good entry. I could use your lyrics for "Marilyn Buck" if you can send them along. I recently read a very interesting article in "The Rag Blog" on her seemingly forgotten case. Free Marilyn Buck!
Also I have placed your Afghan series on my blog. For now I am placing all parts in one spot at May 9, 2010 until it is completed and then will push it forward. Thanks, Markin.
Glad you found the entry and Afghan series of interest to you and your readers.
Following are the lyrics to the public domain "Marily Buck" biographical folk song (from a few years ago, when she was then imprisoned out in California).
Way out in California
Is where they have her locked
For she is strong and beautiful
And her name is Marilyn Buck.
They sentenced her to eighty years
Because she is morally tough
Her rebel spirit they cannot break
And her name is Marilyn Buck.
From Texas to Chicago
The War she tried to stop
She fought alongside Black comrades
And her name is Marilyn Buck.
Assata Shakur, from prison freed,
Did give them all a shock
And another rebel they could not find
Her name was Marilyn Buck.
The Capitol bombed, where the Congress met
To finance CIA plots
And one of the resisters charged
Her name was Marilyn Buck.
Political prisoners still locked up
The list is very long
There’s Mutulu Shakur and Sekou Odinga
And each one deserves their own song.
There’s Sundiata Acoli and Mumia
And Herman Bell and Robert Seth Hayes
And Jamil Al-Amin and the Africas
And Carlos Alberto Torres.
So if you get discouraged
And wish you had more luck
Remember the freedom fighters
And the soulful Marilyn Buck.
Yes, way out in California
Is where they have her locked
For she is strong and beautiful
And her name is Marilyn Buck.
To listen to the "Marilyn Buck" folk song, you can go to the Last.Fm music site for Bob A. Feldman at following link:
http://www.last.fm/music/Bob+A.+Feldman/Biographical+Folk+Songs
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