[Ppnews] Probe of FBI role in Kent State shootings - connection to Omaha 2

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Dennis Kucinich launches probe of FBI role in Kent State shootings

October 15th, 2010 1:31 pm ET
http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/dennis-kucinich-launches-probe-of-fbi-role-kent-state-shootings


<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/michael-richardson>Michael 
<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/michael-richardson>Richardson

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has asked the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation to answer questions about the role of informant Terry 
Norman in the Kent State shootings.  Norman, whose whereabouts are 
unknown, is believed to have triggered the killing of four Kent State 
students by the Ohio National Guard with his own gunplay.

Witnesses have alleged that Norman fired four shots with his 38 
caliber pistol immediately prior to the National Guard fusillade and 
now sophisticated sound analysis has confirmed four pistol shots 
preceded the shooting of the students.

Operation COINTELPRO was J. Edgar Hoover's clandestine and illegal 
war on domestic political activists that targeted thousands of 
individuals and groups including the anti-war movement at the time of 
the Kent State killings in 1970.

Norman was taking pictures of the Kent State protest when he 
purportedly was confronted by some of the demonstrators and allegedly 
fired four warning shots triggering members of the National to 
believe they were being fired upon.

Norman's role in the killing of students was previously investigated 
and he was cleared of any wrongdoing during his spying activity.  It 
is now unclear who exactly Norman was working for during the Kent 
State protest--a hallmark of a COINTELPRO informant.  Newspaper 
accounts have Norman working for the FBI that fateful day.  Police 
reports contradict witness statements, another COINTELPRO marker.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer hired sound experts Stuart Allen and Tom 
Owen to analyze a recording of the shootings that was found in a 
library archive in 2007 by Alan Canfora, one of the wounded students.

Allen recently isolated four distinct gunshots characteristic of a 38 
caliber pistol in the old recording.  Allen's colleague, Tom Owen, is 
perhaps the leading forensic audiologist in America and has been 
analyzing controversial recordings since 1981 when he examined 
recordings of the Weather Underground for the New York Police Department.

The Kent State shootings is not Owen's first COINTELPRO-related crime 
assignment.  In 2006 and 2007 Owen worked on the suppressed 911 call 
in the Omaha Two case and concluded the police version of the case was false.

In the Omaha Two case involving the Black Panthers, a policeman was 
killed in an ambush bombing.  Officer Larry Minard was lured to a 
vacant house and his death by an anonymous 911 caller.  To make a 
case against Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice) 
the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover gave the order to withhold a FBI 
crime lab report on the identity of the 911 caller and the recording 
of the call was kept from the jury that convicted the two Panther leaders.

The official version of the Kent State killings is that Norman did 
not fire a weapon.  The forensic evidence and witness statements 
suggest that Norman did indeed fire his pistol.  If Norman did spark 
the National Guard shootings it is not known if the shots were 
warning shots or the more sinister work of a COINTELPRO provocateur.

Representative Kucinich explained his inquiry of the FBI role in the 
matter to a Fox news reporter.  "Certainly we owe it to the memory of 
the students who lost their lives and their families and we owe it to 
the American people to find the truth."

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