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<h2><b>Dennis Kucinich launches probe of FBI role in Kent State shootings
</b></h2><font size=3>October 15th, 2010 1:31 pm ET<br>
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<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/michael-richardson">
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<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/michael-richardson">
Richardson</a></b></h3><font size=3>Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has
asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to answer questions about the
role of informant Terry Norman in the Kent State shootings. Norman,
whose whereabouts are unknown, is believed to have triggered the killing
of four Kent State students by the Ohio National Guard with his own
gunplay.<br><br>
Witnesses have alleged that Norman fired four shots with his 38 caliber
pistol immediately prior to the National Guard fusillade and now
sophisticated sound analysis has confirmed four pistol shots preceded the
shooting of the students.<br><br>
Operation COINTELPRO was J. Edgar Hoover’s clandestine and illegal war on
domestic political activists that targeted thousands of individuals and
groups including the anti-war movement at the time of the Kent State
killings in 1970.<br><br>
Norman was taking pictures of the Kent State protest when he purportedly
was confronted by some of the demonstrators and allegedly fired four
warning shots triggering members of the National to believe they were
being fired upon.<br><br>
Norman’s role in the killing of students was previously investigated and
he was cleared of any wrongdoing during his spying activity. It is
now unclear who exactly Norman was working for during the Kent State
protest--a hallmark of a COINTELPRO informant. Newspaper accounts
have Norman working for the FBI that fateful day. Police reports
contradict witness statements, another COINTELPRO marker.<br><br>
The <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i> hired sound experts Stuart Allen and
Tom Owen to analyze a recording of the shootings that was found in a
library archive in 2007 by Alan Canfora, one of the wounded
students.<br><br>
Allen recently isolated four distinct gunshots characteristic of a 38
caliber pistol in the old recording. Allen’s colleague, Tom Owen,
is perhaps the leading forensic audiologist in America and has been
analyzing controversial recordings since 1981 when he examined recordings
of the Weather Underground for the New York Police Department.<br><br>
The Kent State shootings is not Owen’s first COINTELPRO-related crime
assignment. In 2006 and 2007 Owen worked on the suppressed 911 call
in the Omaha Two case and concluded the police version of the case was
false.<br><br>
In the Omaha Two case involving the Black Panthers, a policeman was
killed in an ambush bombing. Officer Larry Minard was lured to a
vacant house and his death by an anonymous 911 caller. To make a
case against Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice) the
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover gave the order to withhold a FBI crime lab
report on the identity of the 911 caller and the recording of the call
was kept from the jury that convicted the two Panther leaders.<br><br>
The official version of the Kent State killings is that Norman did not
fire a weapon. The forensic evidence and witness statements suggest
that Norman did indeed fire his pistol. If Norman did spark the
National Guard shootings it is not known if the shots were warning shots
or the more sinister work of a COINTELPRO provocateur.<br><br>
Representative Kucinich explained his inquiry of the FBI role in the
matter to a Fox news reporter. “Certainly we owe it to the memory
of the students who lost their lives and their families and we owe it to
the American people to find the truth.”<br><br>
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