Audiotape of Kent State Shooting to Get New Analysis

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(April 29) -- A Kent State University alumnus plans to have a cutting-edge analysis performed on an audio recording he made of the historic campus shooting in 1970 in an attempt to determine whether the Ohio National Guard was ordered to open fire on anti-war protesters.

Four students were killed and nine wounded in the clash.

Terry Strubbe, a KSU communications student, pressed the record button on the reel-to-reel machine in his dorm room on May 4, 1970, capturing a chilling 30-minute audio account of the protest, including cries from students, 13 seconds of shooting and the chaos that followed.

After preserving the recording for the past 40 years, Strubbe and a friend, psychologist and occasional music producer Joe Bendo, plan to have it analyzed by a Los Angeles film archivist who will digitize the audio and reduce background noise in an effort to hear whether an order to fire is audible.


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