There is no longer any investigation which disclosure can compromise by revealing sources or techniques which would preven "justice" and invoke a larger interest than his personal interest in having it disclosed.

You may be right, but Congress has disagreed and created a whole bunch of privacy protections, including the one I mentioned.

If the courts are consistent, they'd rule in this information requrest the same way they did before. In the case I mentioned, National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish, the investigation had been closed for years. Favish just wanted the photos so he could prove his conspiracy theory. The court ruled that he couldn't have access to the photos even though the subject of the photos, Vince Foster, was dead (and thus had no privacy right). In what was pretty novel at the time, the court "discovered" that the family had an independent privacy interest in the photos.

A bunch of university students were attacked by the National Guard and four of them were shot dead -- four young students shot dead -- because they were protesting the invasion of Cambodia.

As with any controversy, there is more than what you just summarized.

You negelect to mention the non-students on campus.

You neglect to mention the burning ROTC building.

You neglect to mention the bonfires and private property trashing all during the weekend.

You neglect to mention the students throwing rocks at the Guards.

You neglect to mention that Kent State and Guard officials believed the Gov Rhodes prohibited rallys.

Even though there's 2 sides, none of it justfies or even explains why

twenty-eight Guardsmen suddenly turn around 180 degrees, walk back a few steps, and fire their weapons into the group located in the parking lot. Sixty-one shots are fired in thirteen seconds. Four students are killed and nine others injured

Your answer, though deliberately unhelpful, at least gives me some idea of why you think it's significant. The idea of protesters being killed by the National Guard seems to strike some powerful resonance with you. We also know that the Kent State Massacre and the Vietnam War as a whole had an life-changing impact on Jeralyn. But I'm asking, "Why is this important to me?"

On the one hand, we could go with the author of the zdnet piece that Jeralyn linked: "Until they learn the lessons that the anti-war movement tried to teach them, we can expect more Vietnams ahead of us." Except that's more of an indictment of the Vietnam War, than it is about the relevance of Kent State.

I suppose we could try and draw an analogy to the anti-war movement of today, except that there is no student protest movement like that of the Vietnam War, and there certainly aren't any National Guard shootings.

The best thing I can come up with is the standardized, "Don't forget history or it will find a way to kick you in the rear when you least expect it."

For what it's worth, Al, I get the feeling that the issues surrounding the Vietnam War may be forever stuck in an insurmountable generational gap. I didn't live through it. It's just history to me. It's so remote that there's an entire generation between it and me.

The Kent State Massacre is not something that's discussed much these days. They don't teach it in schools. Wikipedia doesn't even have a comprehensive page on it (and that's a telling indication of its modern impact!). As formative as it and the Vietnam War were for people like Jeralyn, the life-changing events of my young life are entirely different in kind.

It should be forbidden in K thru 12 because the student has only a limited maturity and almost no experience.

Bad things do not happen in emotionally charged situations when one entity is American civilians and the other entity is it's own military.

What? Are you denying what happened?

I repeat.

I have never paid much attention to it, just put it down to being a government wrong provoked/caused by anti-war wrongs...

Is there something there you don't understand? Not enough outrage to make you feel all warm and fulfilled?

Tell you what. Just for Tracy.

There I stamped my foot and held my breath until my face turned red...dangerous for an old man..

Now I would guess that if I had friends there, or had been there, I would have been maximum pis*sed.

But I wasn't. And in this life I have discovered that if you pay close attention and take care of you and yours, and do the right thing yourself, things seem to work themselves out.

In otherwords, there is a limit to the outrage you can carry around all the time and be a functional human being living a productive life. Save the heavy stuff for a time and place that you can have an impact.

Twenty-year-old Will Klatt, wearing a green knit hat,

Ah yes, the voice of experience speaks.

Or is it..

Re your question. Don't know.

For example, we all could have learned of Imus suing CBS from CNN. But Jeralyn posted about it here and so now we can have a nice little discussion about it as a 'net community.

Who sets the goals? That is a long history and I recommend to anyone that they read The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto for an informative look at the cabal in charge of our public school system. My point is that Gabriel is an example of the product that Public schools strive to produce--efficient workers and malleable consumers and citizens/voters.

  It never makes clear whether Canfora has heard the original and made a copy of it or whether he obtained an "unofficial copy" from someone other than the owner of the original.
  It really doesn't even state he has not heard the "government copy at the Yale Archives"  and perhaps made an authorized or unauthorized copy of that.

  Nor does it explain why the "government copy" would be in the archives of a private university. Could the Yale copy be a copy of the government copy and he wants to check if the government perhaps turned over a redacted copy to Yale and has a "smoking gun" copy in its possession?

Not to be cryptic, but this is a public forum, and I am not at liberty to say more.

It has a mix of veterans and non-veterans.

My point remains that the "command" doesn't make sense.

That groundwork served me well when I switched to a private catholic high school, as it was surely responsible for giving my religion teachers heads full of gray hairs with my constant questioning.  Aside from the religion nonsense, the private high school was top notch as well.  My American history teacher covered Kent State, the picture at the top of the post was in my textbook that year.