PUBLIC SURVEY RESULTS ANNOUNCED: According to the web site of the OHIO NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION, "Kent State shootings voted top Ohio story of last 75 years"...

"Since the Oct. 4 launch of www.NewspapersMakeHistory.com, more than 4,600 people have visited the website, including those from 47 different foreign countries. Nearly 59,000 page views have been logged in that time."

Why did the BEACON JOURNAL & RECORD-COURIER newspapers omit these important facts while attempting to minimize the historical significance of this epic tragedy?

Here's their aborted version, as published December 29, 2008:

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"Kent State shootings voted top Ohio story of last 75 years"

By Associated Press

http://www.ohio.com/news/36841089.html

POSTED: 03:11 p.m. EST, Dec 29, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio: The National Guard's deadly shooting of students at Kent State University during a Vietnam War protest tops a list of Ohio news events of the last 75 years.

The Ohio Newspaper Association asked visitors to a Web site to rank 75 major news events from 1933 through 2007 as part of the trade group's 75th anniversary. The Kent State shootings in 1970 left four students dead and nine wounded.

Coming in second was the 1969 moon walk by Wapakoneta's Neil Armstrong, followed by Ohio's mourning of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jesse Owens winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games and the blizzard of 1978.

Rounding out the list was Ohio joining the war effort after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, followed by the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, which killed Akron's Judith Resnik, the 1974 tornado that leveled Xenia, the Cleveland Indians winning the 1948 World Series and the 2003 blackout.

Nov. 23, 2008: Kent May 4 Center Director Alan Canfora extends his condolences to the family of Charles Fassinger who died November 22, 2008, at his home in Tennessee. Mr. Fassinger was being treated for leukemia but died in his sleep unexpectedly at home, according to his daughter Susan Crawford.

On May 4, 1970, Lt.-Col. Charles Fassinger was the highest-ranking uniformed officer on Blanket Hill at Kent State University when a different officer shouted the verbal command ordering Troop G shooters to fire 67 gunshots into a crowd of unarmed student anti-war protesters.

In recent years, Mr. Fassinger was the most visible spokesperson representing the guardsmen. Fassinger visited the campus & spoke casually with KSU students, professors and May 4 Task Force students.

Fassinger extended his hand to Alan Canfora on the KSU campus in April of 2007. On May 15, 2008, Canfora & Fassinger appreared together onstage at an educational forum in Columbus, Ohio, sponsored by the Ohio Historical Society. Again, we had the opportunity to meet privately and speak cordially. I believed Chuck Fassinger was getting close to revealing certain truths so I especially regret his passing as a lost opportunity for truth born of diplomacy.

As I said to Mr. Fassinger at that time, I personally welcome the opportunity to meet any of the 1970 Kent State guardsmen, publicly or privately, to discuss truths of our tragedy of May 4, 1970. Here in Kent, Ohio, we do not seek vengeance or retribution at this late date, we only seek the truth.

Hence, my own personal heartfelt sympathy is extended to the family of Charles Fassinger at this time.

DECEMBER 1, 2009: Anticipating the election of our progressive new President Obama, the Kent May 4 Center has been preparing our inevitable approach to a new Attorney General & US Justice Department in early 2009.

We're consulting attorneys now in New York, San Francisco & Columbus, Ohio. We will be presenting our case for renewed investigations of our longstanding injustices at Kent & Jackson State based upon suppressed evidence including our recent proof of the verbal commands to fire upon unarmed students & other new information.

Stay tuned. Here's quotes from today's NEW YORK TIMES newspaper, re: new US Attorney General Eric Holder:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/nyregion/01holder.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq&st=cse&%2334;eric%20holder&%2334;&scp=1

"...[HOLDER] began to read book after book on World War II and biographies of public servants, drawing inspiration from the story of redemption he saw in "The Autobiography of Malcolm X."

"...When he arrived at Columbia in 1969 as a boyish-looking freshman, he was recruited by upperclassmen to help take over the R.O.T.C. office. Armed with pillowcases and sheets, he joined several dozen students and christened the office as a student center named for Malcolm X...

"...As history unfolded around him — the shootings of students at Kent State and Jackson State — Mr. Holder saw the law as an instrument of change.

"The law inevitably is wound up with some great political movements, social movements," he said. "I wanted to be a part of that." [END OF SELECTED QUOTES]

Our new US AG and the Ohio AG will hear our appeals for justice in 2009. Get ready.

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"THE DAY THAT NEVER ENDS: May 4, 1970" --
2008 exclusive interview/commentary: Gerald V. Casale,
questions by Alan Canfora, KM4C Director.

1) Would you describe your general or specific recollection of Kent's student and/or anti-war culture in 1970? In your opinion, what percentage of 1970 Kent students were identifiable as part of the anti-war, counter-culture or "hippie" subcultures?

CASALE: By 1970 there seemed to be evidence to suggest that about 1200 students belonged to and/or participated in various anti-war groups on campus. That would still account for less than 10% of registered students at Kent State at that time. SDS, of which I was a member, was certainly the most threatening of those groups by virtue of their somewhat militant, politically and socially astute, articulated attacks on the hypocrisy of our federal, state and local government in a supposed free, democratic society. Their ideological, Gestalt type analysis went way beyond passively opposing the Vietnam War. To us, that war was just a symptom of the corrosive power of the military-industrial complex married with corporate capitalism. The co-option of true freedom and the dissolution of local community power were points of serious contention. In light of present day culture all we can say is "I hate to say I told you so".

Our SDS chapter's presence on campus at Kent was certainly an anomaly to mainstream midwest culture and just as much an anomaly to a state university fueled by sports, fraternities, and curriculums favoring career opportunities in business and technology. Having said that, the intense and pioneering artistic/anti-war subcultural community at Kent State during the period of 1966 to 1972 was at least on par with those usually only attributed to famous "A" list Universities such as Columbia in NY and Berkeley in California. We may have been a small, land-locked group but we were harboring a powerhouse of unsung radical talent. Maybe we were outnumbered 10 to one by marquee name university students hogging the credit but in any category, be it political speech making, radical organizing and demonstrations, musical performance art (before it was so-named), agi-pop paintings and posters, independent films, gay and lesbian activists, and yes, even hippie fashion shops and drug dealers, we had a local star that could stand with the best in the nation.

ROBBY STAMPS MEMORIAL TRIBUTE:

Join us at Kent State University, Saturday, October 4, 3:30pm, in the Governance Chamber on the 2nd floor of the Student Center.

Sponsored by the KSU students of the May 4 Task Force and the Kent May 4 Center, we welcome your attendance. This event is free and open to the public. Video and photo images of Robby will be presented and public tribute comments will follow.

The event will conclude with a walk outdoors to the May 4 site where Robby was shot in 1970.

Robby Stamps died in June of 2008 after suffering the deadly effects of Lyme Disease. One of the nine KSU students shot and wounded by bullets at KSU on May 4, 1970, Robby was a longstanding outspoken advocate seeking truth and justice at Kent State.

Robby is the second of our 1970 injured casualties to pass away. Jim Russell died of a heart attack in Oregon in June of 2007. Russell's family will join us again on Saturday in Kent.

Others wounded by bullets on May 4, 1970, will also join us in Kent on Saturday to memorialize our fallen brother, including: Dean Kahler, John Cleary. Joe Lewis, Tom Grace, Douglas Wrentmore and Alan Canfora. Only Scott Mackenzie cannot join us due to distant commitments elsewhere.

You are invited.

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http://media.www.kentnewsnet.com/media/storage/paper867/news/2008/10/03/News/Robby.Stamps.To.Be.Honored.At.Weekend.Service-3468072.shtml

Robby Stamps to be honored at weekend service

May 4 victim died this summer

by Nicole Stempak -- DAILY KENT STATER

Issue date: 10/3/08 Section: News

Former classmates and friends will gather at a memorial for Robert "Robby" Stamps, one of the nine students wounded May 4, 1970, at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Governance Chambers.

Submitted by Alan Canfora on Sat, 2008-04-05 21:19.
May 3-4, 2008: JOIN US in Kent
38th annual Commemoration -- all events free and open to public -- sponsored by May 4 Task Force students at KSU: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

May 3: 7pm, Kiva Auditorium of the KSU Student Center, RON KOVIC will introduce his film, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. Kovic will also answer audience questions after the film. A brief poetry reading session will occur to start the program.

May 3: 11pm-midnight: Annual candlelight march across the KSU campus. March culminates at Prentice Hall Parking Lot where our martyrs died in 1970. All-night vigil from midnight to noon. Contact May 4 Task Force students to sign-up for your 30-minute vigil reservation: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

May 4: 11am-noon: pre-Commemoration music by Tropidelic Band.
May 4: Noon-2pm: 38th annual commemoration event sponsored by the dedicated KSU students of the May 4 Task Force.
Speakers include: Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, expert on Iraq/Iran crisis; Ron Kovic, anti-war activist Vietnam Veteran and author; the family of revolutionary hero & attorney William Kunstler; 1970 KSU wounded students Dean Kahler and Joe Lewis, Jr.; other speakers to be announced. LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF KENT AND JACKSON STATE!

NOTE: the annual anti-Iraq War march from KSU to downtown Kent will follow the commemoration.

May 4: 6pm: The Kent Stage, East Main Street, downtown Kent: music event with several live bands and more.

“RIGHT HERE, GET SET, POINT, FIRE!” – exact words of the recently-discovered Ohio National Guard verbal command to shoot unarmed Kent State students on May 4, 1970. Seconds before the massacre, which ONG officer shouted this order? General Robert Canterbury? Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fassinger? Major Harry Jones? KENT STATE COVER-UP ENDED May 1, 2007!

Click here for EXCLUSIVE April 30, 2007, Alan Canfora preview announcement of proof of 1970 ORDER TO FIRE by KBOO radio in Portland, Oregon -- audio file (Windows Media)

* MEDIA INQUIRIES: phone KM4C director Alan Canfora: 330-745-1097.

AOL NEWS audio, video and poll results 52% support new 2007 investigation

Yahoo ABC-TV news video Alan Canfora, May 1, 2007

MSNBC video interview Alan Canfora, May 1, 2007

two audio files of order to fire command revealed by Alan Canfora

NPR: National Public Radio audio, Alan Canfora announcement, two versions audio

Cleveland Plain Dealer writer Connie Schultz article re: Alan Canfora news, May 1, 2007

On April 12, 2007, the highest ranking uniformed officer of the 1970 Ohio National Guard troops at Kent State University met with members of the May 4 Task Force student organization on the campus of Kent State University. In 1970, although General Robert Canterbury was the highest ranking officer on Blanket Hill at the moment of the historic student massacre, Lieutenant Colonel Fassinger was the top uniformed officer because General Canterbury was wearing a suit and tie along with a gas mask perched upon his head.

Charles Fassinger, now age 76, was filmed during his two-hour question/answer session which was attended by Kent May 4 Center director Alan Canfora, one of the nine students wounded by gunfire at KSU on May 4, 1970. Fassinger also was filmed twice earlier that week including his visit to the May 4 educational class at KSU taught by 1970 tragedy eyewitnesses Dr. Laura Davis and Dr. Carole Barbato.

Is it a coincidence Fassinger suddenly re-emerges at Kent weeks prior to the imminent announcement of new proof of the May 4, 1970, National Guard verbal command to shoot unarmed Kent State students?

Here's a recent article published by the DAILY KENT STATER student newspaper

"National Guardsman meets with May 4 Task Force for first time"

by Kiera Manion-Fischer

Issue date: 4/16/07 Section: News

Was the shooting justified? - That was the question on the May 4 Task Force members' minds when they met with retired Lt. Gen. Charles Fassinger, one of the commanding officers of the Ohio National Guard in May 1970.

On May 4, 2006 following the Commemoration, a large group of students marched from Kent State University into downtown Kent. The following is a video taken by Alan Canfora and Brock Brown, edited by Karen Kilroy.

Click here to watch the video


Click here for photos of 2006 protest

Beware of California tourist-guide author William A. Gordon.

Beware of his misleading books about Kent State 1970: FOUR DEAD IN OHIO and also THE FOURTH OF MAY. Both are the same bogus 1981 book sold with two titles in 1990 and 1995.

Beware of his repeated attacks against Alan Canfora, Kent May 4 Center (KM4C), May 4 Task Force (M4TF) students, KSU professors and many others.

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William A. Gordon's Kent State vendetta: 1984-2007

During 37 years of our ongoing May 4 Movement for truth and justice at Kent State in Kent, Ohio, one peculiar individual has maintained a perpetual vendetta against Alan Canfora, Kent May 4 Center, May 4 Task Force, Kent State University, KSU Professor Jerry M. Lewis, the late KSU Professor Glenn Frank and others too numerous to mention here.

William A. Gordon, aka Bill Gordon, was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, and attended Akron University as a freshman when the students were killed at Kent State in 1970. Bill Gordon transferred to KSU, curried favor with KSU student government leaders and, for a brief time, played a small role in the early KSU movement seeking truth and justice until he graduated KSU in 1973.

Later, saying he was writing a book, Bill Gordon won the trust of our 1970 victims’ families until he began to associate with attorneys for the Ohio National Guard during our 1975 civil lawsuit trial in Cleveland’s Federal Court House. I was chosen by the plaintiffs to stop Gordon’s ongoing attempts to attend our families’ meetings with our attorneys in Cleveland.

Later, in 1975-76, the first year of our May 4 Task Force student organization at KSU, Bill Gordon was the apartment room-mate of M4TF leader Steve Timinsky until Timinsky bitterly denounced Gordon and exposed Gordon’s repeated subterfuge.