I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully

Terry Strubbe was a Kent State student who set a microphone on the windowsill of his dorm room during the campus protests of May 4, 1970. He recorded what was happening on a reel-to-reel tape. Alan Canfora was wounded by guardsmen that day. He says that on an enhanced version of the recording — just before the volley of gunfire — someone can faintly be heard giving the order to fire.

U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
1970 SUMMARY of FBI REPORTS

"...available photographs indicate that the nearest student was 60 feet away" [at time of shootings].

"...no verbal warning was given to the students immediately prior to the time the Guardsmen fired."

"...one Guardsman, Sgt. McManus, stated that after the firing began, he gave an order to 'fire over their heads'".

"...the Guardsmen were not surrounded...they could easily have continued going in the direction in which they had been going."

"...no Guardsman claims he was hit with rocks immediately prior to the firing..."

"...only one Guardsman, Lawrence Shafer, was injured on May 4, 1970, seriously enough to require any kind of medical treatment. He admits his injury was received some 10 to 15 minutes before the fatal volley was fired."

I lived in Ohio in 1970.  I was 26, married,  and had a three-month-old baby.  My cousin was a student at Kent State.  It wasn't like I trusted my government then, and there had been chaos on campus,  but I certainly wasn't expecting what happened there that day.  No one was.