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Originally Posted by CDSmith
It definitely was unjustified. A few of the guardsmen themselves who partook of the shooting appeared mortified on camera in the documentary I watched a few years ago, and if they were expressing honest feelings (which I think they were) they have had to live with their guilt all these years.
It was shameful, needless, and in viewing the footage of it I was outraged beyond words, as anyone should be.
Yet another huge shame on the particular administration of that period in time.
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Yes...it was a shameful spectacle. I assume that you are referring to that particular State Administration...since it was the Governor that called out his State National Guard and not the Federal Administration.