Don Wildman
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How does that unfold?
At that point, you had the students pretty well dispersed across what is Blanket Hill, at the top of Blanket Hill.
Is that right?
And what would be perceived as the threat that the students were presenting?
Were they going to burn a building down?
I mean, what were they being taught?
To be clear, the National Guardsmen are retreating in effect, right?
Moving backwards.
And it is from that vantage point, from that parking lot, that these shots are fired.
Is that correct?
which is when we get the tragedy and the images that come from that tragedy, the most famous of which is Mary Ann Vecchio over Jeffrey Miller, which goes on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Four students are killed.
Jeffrey Miller, about 100 feet away from the soldiers.
Alison Krauss, 300 feet.
I mean, they're all different places that these people are being hit.
William Schroeder, 400 feet away.
Sandy Scheuer, who was just a person on her way to class, apparently.