Kent State/Jewish Connection

[Ria_Longhorn]

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Kent State massacre, when on May 4, 1970, American college students protesting the bombing in Southeast Asia, came under fire from the Ohio National Guard, resulting in the death of four students with several others injured. The killings sparked outrage across American campuses and is indelibly marked on the American conscious.

What many don't know is the Jewish dimension to that tragedy.

Even though Jews were only about 5% of the student body at Kent State, that three of the four students murdered on that day were Jewish, was "an extremely unlikely mathematical probability."

May our young people never again come to harm at the hand of its own government. God Bless America.

Remembering Kent State as an American Tragedy With a Jewish Face

At 11 p.m. on May 3, a group of marchers will begin a candlelight vigil at Kent State University in Ohio to recall what is for many a distant echo from another era. Forwarding the News Thoughtful, balanced reporting from the Forward and around the web, bringing you updated news and analysis of...

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The victims:

William Knox Schroeder - Wikipedia

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Sandra Lee Scheuer - Wikipedia

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Jeffrey Miller (shooting victim) - Wikipedia

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Allison Krause - Wikipedia

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[watchingfromafar]

Oh Lord; may they rest in peace
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[CarlinAnnArbor]

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Kent State massacre, when on May 4, 1970, American college students protesting the bombing in Southeast Asia, came under fire from the Ohio National Guard, resulting in the death of four students with several others injured. The killings sparked outrage across American campuses and is indelibly marked on the American conscious.

What many don't know is the Jewish dimension to that tragedy.

Even though Jews were only about 5% of the student body at Kent State, that three of the four students murdered on that day were Jewish, was "an extremely unlikely mathematical probability."

May our young people never again come to harm at the hand of its own government. God Bless America.

Remembering Kent State as an American Tragedy With a Jewish Face

At 11 p.m. on May 3, a group of marchers will begin a candlelight vigil at Kent State University in Ohio to recall what is for many a distant echo from another era. Forwarding the News Thoughtful, balanced reporting from the Forward and around the web, bringing you updated news and analysis of...

forward.com

The victims:

William Knox Schroeder - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sandra Lee Scheuer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Jeffrey Miller (shooting victim) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Allison Krause - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Am I supposed to feel sympathy here? The ONLY ones I have sympathy for were the two who weren't part of the riot

On April 1, 1969, SDS members attempted to enter the administration building with a list of demands where they clashed with police. In response, the university revoked the Kent State SDS chapter charter. On April 16 a disciplinary hearing involving two of the protesters resulted in a confrontation between supporters and opponents of SDS. The Ohio State Highway Patrol was called and 58 were arrested. Four SDS leaders spent six months in prison as a result of the incident.[12]

On April 10, 1970, Jerry Rubin, a leader of the Youth International Party (also known as the Yippies), spoke on campus. In remarks reported locally, he said "The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. They are the first oppressors." Two weeks after that, Bill Anthrell, an SDS member and former student, distributed flyers to an event in which he said he was going to napalm a dog. The event turned out to be an anti-napalm teach-in.[12]

another rally was planned for May 4 to continue the protest of the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. There was widespread anger, and many protesters issued a call to "bring the war home". A group of history students buried a copy of the United States Constitution to symbolize that Nixon had killed it.[13] A sign was put on a tree asking "Why is the ROTC building still standing?"[14]

Trouble exploded in town around midnight, when people left a bar and began throwing beer bottles at police cars and breaking windows in downtown storefronts. In the process they broke a bank window, setting off an alarm. The news spread quickly and it resulted in several bars closing early to avoid trouble. Before long, more people had joined the vandalism.

By the time police arrived, a crowd of 120 had already gathered. Some people from the crowd lit a small bonfire in the street. The crowd appeared to be a mix of bikers, students, and transient people. A few members of the crowd began to throw beer bottles at the police, and then started yelling obscenities at them. The entire Kent police force was called to duty as well as officers from the county and surrounding communities. Kent Mayor LeRoy Satrom declared a state of emergency, called the office of Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes to seek assistance, and ordered all of the bars closed. The decision to close the bars early increased the size of the angry crowd. Police eventually succeeded in using tear gas to disperse the crowd from downtown, forcing them to move several blocks back to the campus.[9]


Saturday, May 2Edit
City officials and downtown businesses received threats, and rumors proliferated that radical revolutionaries were in Kent to destroy the city and university. Several merchants reported they were told that if they did not display anti-war slogans, their businesses would be burned down. Kent's police chief told the mayor that according to a reliable informant, the ROTC building, the local army recruiting station, and post office had been targeted for destruction that night.[15] There were unconfirmed rumors of students with caches of arms, plots to spike the local water supply with LSD, of students building tunnels for the purpose of blowing up the town's main store.[16] Mayor Satrom met with Kent city officials and a representative of the Ohio Army National Guard. Following the meeting, Satrom made the decision to call Governor Rhodes and request that the National Guard be sent to Kent, a request that was granted. Because of the rumors and threats, Satrom believed that local officials would not be able to handle future disturbances.[9]

The decision to call in the National Guard was made at 5:00 p.m., but the guard did not arrive in town that evening until around 10 p.m. By this time, a large demonstration was underway on the campus, and the campus Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) building was burning.[17] The arsonists were never apprehended, and no one was injured in the fire. According to the report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest:

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Founders of the TERRORIST SDS

Founded: 1960
Headquarters location: New York, NY
Extinction: 1974
Predecessor: Student League for Industrial Democracy
Founders: Tom Hayden, Bill Ayers, Aryeh Neier, Alan Haber
Purposes: Left-wing politics, Student activism

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

You send hundreds of thousands of unwilling draftees to fight a war 12,000 miles away, dropping napalm on villages and killing a few million people, most of whom only wanted to be left alone by foreigners who had been occupying their country for ages ... guess what? You get opposition! SDS was just one opponent of that terrible war. MLK and church leaders were another. Figures someone with a name like "Death Angel" would support the killing of unarmed students!

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

You send hundreds of thousands of unwilling draftees to fight a war 12,000 miles away, dropping napalm on villages and killing a few million people, most of whom only wanted to be left alone by the foreigners who had been occupying their country for ages ... guess what? You get opposition! SDS was just one opponent of that terrible war. MLK and church leaders were another. Figures someone with a name like "Death Angel" would support the killing of unarmed students!

A Bill Ayers supporter! Obama welcomes you!

They were EXACTLY the same people who are the current ANTIFA.

They were involved in riots, arson and deadly threats. Yes, they worked hard to get shot.

Here are some of the communist groups involved in "burning down" the establishment:

Black United Students ( BUS)
Mayday Coalition,
Kent Liberation Front ( KLF)
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

What do you know about it? Did you live through those years?
For Christ's sakes you have to read about it in an official report written at the request of that lying war criminal Richard Nixon.

Ever even read the Pentagon Papers?

 

[there4eyeM]

The horror of Kent State is exactly what so many extremists here rail against; abuse of power and murder of citizens without punishment for the criminals.
The hypocrisy of America is shamelessly displayed in this matter. Justice was never served. The guilty were exonerated. The stain, that became part and parcel of the Vietnam error atrocity and was largely obscured by it, continues. Americans, beware! Never believe that those in uniform will not shoot you!

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

What do you know about it? Did you live through those years?
For Christ's sakes you have to read about it in an official report written at the request of that lying war criminal Richard Nixon.

Ever even read the Pentagon Papers?

Are you talking to me? Yes I was around then. Curious. Do you support the goals of Antifa too? They are the same creatures
This still makes me smile

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

written at the request of that lying war criminal Richard Nixon

Never followed any of your posts but THIS tells me who you are.

 

[there4eyeM]

The craven cowards who fired on unarmed civilians should have been parachuted directly into North Vietnam unarmed themselves.

 

[there4eyeM]

The craven cowards who fired on unarmed civilians should have been parachuted directly into North Vietnam unarmed themselves.

...and notice the kindness inferred that parachutes would be provided!

 

[there4eyeM]

The "dislike" button is like the trigger on a Nat Guard rifle; so easy to do and so cowardly. It shows someone unable to confront a question with integrity and intelligence.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

The "dislike" button is like the trigger on a Nat Guard rifle; so easy to do and so cowardly. It shows someone unable to confront a question with integrity and intelligence.

You KNOW you were axing for it.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Ths is what the SDS and the Weathermen were calling for (and got):

 

[Corazon]

Sad! They were so young! May they rest in peace!

 

[there4eyeM]

Sad! They were so young! May they rest in peace!

And may the criminals who murdered them never rest in peace.