美军残酷镇压学生运动的历史旧照
5月4日是美国历史上重要的，而且令美国人记忆深刻的一天。
1970年5月尼克松把越战的战场扩大到柬埔寨，震惊世界，股市狂跌。那时候有超过五十万的美军在越南作战，战场一扩大自然有增兵的趋势，美国大学的校园都紧张了，学生们气不过，在校园中叫嚷不过是为了泄愤，根本没有威胁政府的任何企图，他们也没有这个能力。学生在校园里叫一叫、发泄一下也就算了，顶多打破几个窗子，根本不可能有什么大事。可是美国政府居然下令军队进入校园进行镇压，简直是开玩笑。你想想，校园里都是二十岁左右的年轻人，军队只要一进校园几乎可以确定一定会出大乱子，当然有可能会死人。
从「肯特州立大学事件」我们可以清楚看到尼克松总统动用军队镇压的临界点有多高。这才是重点。尼克松出动军队的临界点太低了。
美国人纪律不行，军队也是一样。 Kent State 校园里面的军队不知是谁喊了一声「有人有枪！」（后来证明没有武器）士兵就惊慌开枪了，这纯粹是一个纪律问题。甚至有一个士兵开枪，是因为一个学生向他比中指。
是的，你没看错，一名学生叫路易斯（Joseph Lewis）距离士兵大约六十英尺，他向士兵伸出中指，立刻中了两枪，一枪中在右腹部，一枪中在左下腿。你说，这是什么纪律的军队？民主的美国又怎样？什么叫擦枪走火？什么叫气头上？你比中指，老子就给你一枪，你有什么人权？混乱中，这么多人开枪，打死你又怎样？
路易斯命大，中了两枪还没死。有四个学生是一枪毙命的，他们的名字是：
米勒（男，Jefferey Miller），距离士兵大约270英尺，嘴部中弹；
克劳斯（女，Allison Krause），距离士兵大约330英尺，左边身体中弹；
史瑞德（男，William Schroeder），距离士兵大约390英尺，左边背部中弹；
雪儿（女，Sandra Scheuer），距离士兵大约390英尺，子弹从左边贯穿她的颈子。
当年受伤的学生之一回忆该事件：
Victim of Kent State University Shooting Speaks Out
April
22, 2010 Hayley Nelson
[email protected]
When Alan Canfora prepared two black protest flags on May 3, 1970, the color chosen to match his anger for the Vietnam War, he never imagined it would lead to a massacre by the Ohio National Guard the following day.
Canfora told his eyewitness account of the Kent State University shootings at the lecture “40 Years Later: Anti-War Student Activism and the Kent State” in Dallas Hall Wednesday evening.
“We were part of an unarmed anti-war demonstration, and we were attacked by government officials,” Canfora said. “Our Constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly weren’t there that day.”
Using a slideshow of pictures from the day of the incident, he gave a detailed account of the massacre. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds that took four students’ lives and wounded nine others, including him.
The Protest at Kent State
The protest against the American invasion of Cambodia was scheduled for noon on Monday May 4, 1970. University officials tried to prevent the gathering by handing out over 12,000 pamphlets saying the event was canceled. This didn’t stop 2,000 passionate students from coming together that day.
“We were angry college students because we loved those soldiers in Vietnam,” Canfora said. “Ten day earlier I had to attend the funeral of my 19-year-old friend, Jim Caldwell, who was killed fighting this war. I had had enough.”
One of the student protesters began to speak after ringing the university’s iron Victory Bell. Fearing rally might escalate, Troop G of the Ohio Army National Guard attempted to disperse the crowd.
“They realized we weren’t going anywhere, so they threw tear gas at us,” Canfora said. “It was nearly impossible to breathe.”
It didn’t stop there. According to Canfora, Kent state student Terry Strubbe recorded an audiotape of the shooting on a reel-to-reel machine that day.
On the recording, a voice shouted “Right here!” “Get Set!” Point!” and “Fire!” The tape, released in 2007, is still under investigation to check for authenticity. It may provide the information needed to prove there was a verbal command to shoot the unarmed students.
At 12:24 p.m. a number of guardsmen fired their M1 Garand rifles at the students. If you were in the crowd, not even a protester, you were a potential victim. Two of the four students killed were not part of the rally, but were walking between classes at the time.
“It was a terrible massacre of American students by American military forces,” Bonnie Wheeler, professor of English at SMU, said.
Tribute to Those Who Died
Canfora ended his lecture with morgue pictures of the victims who were killed to help express the horrors he felt that day.
“Not many know what an M1 bullet can do to kids on a sunny Monday afternoon,” Canfora said. “Unfortunately, I do.”
John Filo, a Kent State journalism student, took many of the photographs in the slideshow. The Kent State shooting memorial site houses some of the pictures of that day’s massacre.
Filo won a Pulitzer Prize for the picture of one student kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller who was killed instantly when he was shot in the head. Miller was one the protesters that day.
“It is so frustrating that innocent people trying to spread peace were murdered,” Kate Jameson, an SMU psychology major, said.
Canfora said students that died left a legacy that lived on through other protesters. Over 450 universities in the U.S. closed down because of both violent and non-violent strikes by 4 million students across the nation to stop the war.
Students at SMU gathered on the steps of Dallas Hall to protest for this cause on May 14, 1970.
Alan Canfora was invited to SMU by the human rights department lecture series.
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