The President’s Commission on Campus Unrest avoided probing the question regarding why the shootings happened. Instead, it harshly criticized both the protesters and the Guardsmen, but it concluded that “the indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable.”
Yes, I just read that.
However, since the troops HAD endured days of rock throwings, fires and various other things that MIGHT have caused firing in those situtations, one has to wonder just why shots were fired at the time they were, and, the targets being so far away from the shooters.