7 hurt at Kent St. in 1970 shooting want answers

[struggle4progress]

2. ... In a news conference Thursday, the survivors said they are launching a campaign

to persuade state and federal lawmakers and other officials to convene hearings to examine new evidence from the May 4, 1970, shootings, which were a defining event of 20th-century America.

Four of the wounded former students were present at Thursday's briefing. Three others signed a consensus statement ...

The survivors' group, their attorneys and the May 4 Task Group, an organization of current KSU students, are backing a broad-based effort to root out more information about the shootings. It includes appeals to Congress, the Ohio legislature, Gov. John Kasich, Attorney General Mike DeWine and human-rights groups to initiate inquiries ...

"We're not going to courts first, filing lawsuits," said Paul Meyer, a Cleveland attorney who is advising the group. "We'd rather build up a groundswell of public opinion to support the effort to seek the truth and achieve some reconciliation. We think if elected officials are aware of the [new] evidence, they will be persuaded to take effective action. There are people who know things who have yet to tell their stories . . . and we are looking for them, too." ...

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/05/may_4th_wounded_from_kent_stat.html