My uncle was an Ohio National Guard troop way back then waiting on stand by to be called up incase things got worse. Luckily he never had to go. Way back then this was what the guard troops said but the left made it into some sort of fable about strom troopers who opened fire on them. My uncle was an 18 yo man who was serving his country after older brother had been in Vietnam. It’s good the truth is finally coming out.
My thanks to your uncle for serving. I was a teenager at the time so I do remember the incident. The Guard was put into a very bad situation. Nothing good was going to come of it. With SDS, the Weather Underground and other subversive communist movements involved, someone was going to get injured or killed.
Too bad it had to be someone innocent.