Tuesday, September 7, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Nation/World
Waco revelations raising Oklahoma City questions
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Ever since her grandons were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, Jannie Coverdale has doubted whether the government has been entirely truthful about what happened.
Revelations about the FBI's use of flammable tear gas canisters at the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas — accusations denied by the government for six years — have raised even more questions, Coverdale said.
"After what I've heard about Waco, I'm beginning to blame the federal government for my grandchildren dying," Coverdale said. Her grandsons, Aaron and Elijah, were among the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the
"I don't trust the information we've gotten so far about Waco or the information we've gotten on the bombing," she said. "I can't believe what we've been told."
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Survivors of the bombing and relatives of those killed are divided about whether the government's new information about its role at Waco has any bearing on its investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Government prosecutors have said the bombing was in part retaliation for the April 19, 1993, fire that killed Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and more than 80 of his followers at Waco.
"Some of these people like blame the government for everything. That is such a shallow interpretation of the real evidence," said Dr. Paul Heath, a psychologist for the Social Security Administration who survived the bombing.
But Coverdale's distrust is shared. "I'm thrilled to see the truth surfacing. It's sure cleaning the slate for the people who have been deemed the right-wing nuts," said Kathy Wilburn, who also lost two grandsons in the bombing.
Conspiracy theorists contend the government started the fire that ended the 51-day siege at Waco. The government says the fires were set by the Branch Davidians.
"Truth has a way of surfacing after a while," Wilburn said. "I'm hoping that the truth also comes out about the Oklahoma City bombing. The more truth we get, the more it vindicates my husband and I."
Memorials will mark parking spaces where four died in Kent State riot
KENT, Ohio—The promise of young lives shattered. Tear gas wafting across a place of learning. A nation at its most divided and chaotic.
The Associated Press
The deaths of four Kent State University students shot by National Guardsmen during a 1970 Vietnam War protest seemed to crystallize the turmoil of an unsettled and tragic era.
The emotional power of the shootings lingers, even among students who weren't born when it happened. This week, new markers are to be dedicated in the parking lot where the students fell.
"It's really an emotional subject," said Kent State senior Kim Larson, 24. "It's such a shame that it had to happen. Every one of those people had a great future ahead of them."
As part of the student-run May 4
Task Force, Larson helped collect petition signatures last year to press the university to mark the parking spaces where Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder fell dead.
The memorials are to be dedicated Wednesday.
Guardsmen were sent to the campus on May 2,1970, after days of student protests and the burning of the campus Army ROTC building. On May 4, they used tear gas to disperse students.
The shootings sent shock waves across a country growing weary of the war.
About midday, 28 Guardsmen fired at least 61 shots in a 13-second burst, hitting protesters, bystanders and students walking to class.
The shootings have given Kent State a unique and painful legacy.
Guardsmen climbed to pursue protesters. A granite plaza stands as a memorial to the victims, while 51,175 daffodils have been planted in honor of the nation's Vietnam War dead.
There's the sculpture marked by Guard gunfire and the hill the
The university has offered a course about the shootings for years and has institutes that study peacemaking and conflict resolution.
The four parking spaces have been roped off each May 3 for an overnight vigil, with a single student holding a lighted candle at each spot.
Work on the parking space markers took three weeks and cost about $100,000, which was raised from private sources. Each memorial has a rough-edge granite border and six waist-high lamp posts. A polished triangle of granite in each space has the date May 4, 1970, and the name of a slain student.
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