Reply #19: Decent TFH article about Kent state in the Cleveland Free Times - [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

http://www.freetimes.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3389&POSTNUKESID=4ecf15252f8f0e75252ddacd85b6d4c7

They broke the windows. Someone set fire to the curtains, hoping it would spread. Another person dipped a rag in gasoline, lit the cloth, then tossed it into a window. Try as they might, though, the fire wouldn't catch. Canfora compares the effort to a Three Stooges routine. Police could have stopped them easily.

"Why, on this evening, was the building left unprotected? I find that to be very suspicious."

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"Governor Rhodes and President Nixon — I think it goes all the way to the top," Canfora says. "I believe it's possible that someone working for the government finished the job we had started. I think the guardsmen were manipulated by Rhodes and Nixon. I believe the triggermen were victims, too."

(snip)

According to documents released by the FBI, Terry Norman had been assisting university police and the FBI in identifying student activists on campus for several months prior to May 4. Members of Students for a Democratic Society recall Norman trying to infiltrate their meetings, toting his camera with him. They suspected he was using the camera to take pictures of the activists which he would turn over to the authorities. For his efforts, the FBI paid him $125 a month.