Kent State anniversary

Absent the declassification of the FBI's entire investigative file, many questions remain unanswered — including why the documents quoted here were overlooked, or discounted, in the Justice Department's official findings. At a minimum, the FBI documents strongly challenge the received narrative that the rioting in downtown Kent was spontaneous and unplanned, that the burning of the ROTC headquarters was similarly impulsive and that the guardsmen's fatal shootings were explicable only as unprovoked acts.

I remember the heat from this on the TV. About the only way these revelations makes sense is if the docs were fabricated at the time and then it was decided there was no way the fabrications would hold up under the scrutiny that would be brought to bear in the atmosphere that prevailed after the shooting, so they were just buried with the rest of the file ...