[calex59]

Would you wait until you were wounded to fire back? Of course you wouldn't. The whole purpose of firing was to NOT wound any guardsmen, if there were wounded guardsmen then the whole thing would have fallen apart. As it was the students were throwing chunks of cement and had already wounded policemen with rocks and such and were driving the guard back up the hill because they were not allowed to fire.

They did have permission to fire back if fired upon and they did. You can believe what you want, I don't know how old you are but I lived through those times and I can tell you it was a planned riot with the purpose of making the military look bad and play into the "get us out of Nam" BS meme.

[RedMDer]

I lived through those times and I can tell you it was a planned riot with the purpose of making the military look bad and play into the "get us out of Nam" BS meme.

Me too and I was just a dumb teenager at that time. It was obvious that SDS and other subversive groups planned all of these events even to me then. Wonder where the POS Bill Ayers was that day.