New analysis of audiotape might settle Kent State mystery

[The Straight Story]

New analysis of audiotape might settle Kent State mystery


KENT, Ohio -- An analysis will be done on a tape that could answer a lingering question in the 1970 Kent State University campus shootings that killed four students.

Nine other students were wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest.

Three years ago, shooting victim Alan Canfora reviewed a copy of an audio recording and said it shows Guardsmen were ordered to shoot. The tape has dense background noise and it's not clear who's speaking.

Now, a high-tech analysis is planned on the original May 4, 1970, recording made by Terry Strubbe. The Kent State student set the microphone of his reel-to-reel tape recorder on his dorm room windowsill.

The tape will be converted to digital format to try to determine if there was an order to shoot.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/29/kent-state-recording-analysis-new.html?sid=101

[ShortnFiery]

1. Why now? This is almost creepy that "all of a sudden" they uncovered THIS tape.

:thumbsdown:

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. This tape has been around all along, since the first day of the first

investigation.

Only in the past few years has technology improved enough to digitalize it and make a definite conclusion if the order that some hear on it is actually an order to fire, or just garbage noise.

Me, I think the order was given, and the guardsmen lied about it.

[arthritisR_US]

2. good, nothing wrong with a bit of sunlight for a change. n/t