Kent State Shots Fired by FBI Informant - Allison Krause
Sister Sends Open Letter to President Obama

My Open Letter on Kent State to President Obama

by Laurel Krause

May 6, 2011

http://mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/my-open-letter-on-kent-state-to-president-obama/

Dear Mr. President,

My sister Allison Krause was killed at Kent State on May 4,
1970. I co-founded the Kent State Truth Tribunal with Emily
Kunstler and we opened our doors for the first of three
tribunals last year right around this time.

On May 1-4, 2010 we recorded, preserved and honored the
stories of original participants and witnesses of the Kent
State shooting on May 4, 1970. It was a blessing that my
mother Doris Krause, 85, was able to be present for the
beginning of the Kent State healing.

As I returned to my home in California, I received word from
Mom that the Kent State Tape had been examined for the very
first time and a story was breaking in the Plain Dealer
tomorrow, article here http://bit.ly/aM7Ocm That she had
given a quote applauding the news of this long-denied order
to shoot. That it had been analyzed and verified by Mr.
Stuart Allen, a top forensic scientist (also Stuyvestant
colleague of General Holder).

In October 2010 at the Kent State Truth Tribunal, we invited
Mr. Allen to participate as a meaningfully-involved
participant, to examine the Kent State Tape before our
cameras. At KSTT-NYC, I received word that there was more
than the command on the Kent State Tape. That Mr. Allen, in
preparing for his KSTT testimonial, discovered a violent
altercation recorded just 70 seconds before the national
guard command to fire and ensuing barrage, 67 shots for 13
seconds. Read http://bit.ly/als1xB

As we opened our doors in NYC for our KSTT on October 9-10,
2010, and as a result of Mr. Allen's shocking new evidence,
Representative Dennis Kucinich, chair of the Domestic Policy
subcommittee responded by immediately opening an
investigation into the Kent State shootings.
http://bit.ly/cO69Yx

Then the other shoe dropped. The Democrats lost the election
and Rep Kucinich lost his seat as chair in the Domestic
Policy subcommittee. http://bit.ly/hmM2SH

Looking back on my Kent State path, I was 15 years old when
Allison was murdered. For nine years after, my family life
and world were also blown apart forever, especially as my
folks pursued justice for Allison in the courts. Mr.
President, no one from the government ever came to help us,
except for Senator Ted Kennedy, and now recently with Rep
Dennis Kucinich.

Recollecting those horrible years, I remember my Dad
entering the Kent State Tape into evidence in his lawsuits.
Lots of folks called Dad Krazy Krause, he would not let this
go. 40 years later, it was heartening to realize Dad knew
that the tape held the key to the truth at Kent State. It
has taken us over 40 years to be able to decipher and once
in for all, hear the recorded sounds via Mr. Stuart Allen's
expertise and kgb audio software.

Mr. Allen verified the long-denied `order to fire' at the
unarmed students, and surprisingly discovered new evidence
in the violent altercation between Mr. Terry Norman and
students. Mr. Allen heard Mr. Norman's later surrendered
pistol shoot off four pistol rounds, creating the sniper
fire claimed by the national guard. Mr. Norman was a
consensual informant for the F.B.I. and working that day.
More on Mr. Norman http://bit.ly/gSN9pP and
http://bit.ly/994afB

Mr. Norman is one of many present that day, cogs in the
wheel delivering four homicides on May 4, 1970 and crossing
the line at Kent State, yet Mr. Norman's actions directly
connect the FBI with the command to fire. Mr. Norman's
actions prove the intent to create, as in instigate sniper
fire 70 seconds before the guard shot. Now we understand the
odd `Alright' in the `command to fire' order.

It is for this reason that I formally request you Mr.
President examine the new evidence in this cold case
homicide of Kent State. Furthermore I ask you to create an
impartial and unaffiliated team to investigate the F.B.I.
This is the same instruction I gave Congressman Kucinich.

From Wikipedia: Impartiality is a principle of justice
holding that decisions should be based on objective
criteria, rather than on the basis of bias, prejudice, or
preferring the benefit to one person over another for
improper reasons.

Mr. President, please examine the new evidence in the Kent
State Tape.

Sincerely,

Laurel Krause

P.S.   Recent writing on learning the truth at Kent State in
2010, also published at the request of Rep Dennis Kucinich
in the 2010 Congressional Record: Truth Emerging in the Kent
State Cold Case Homicides http://bit.ly/fgI0h2

*******

In today's snail mail letter to President Obama, I enclosed
my father's words & image:

Yesterday on the Internet I discovered my father's words
from 1979 and wish to share them with you. Here's a picture
of united Kent State, May 4th folks at a press conference,
taken at the end of their nine year search for justice
through the judicial system.

http://mendocoastcurrent.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/dadtrial78.jpg

[Photo caption: Arthur Krause is the tall man in the back,
smoking a cigarette & my mom Doris Krause sits in front of
him. My father shared, "The thing that I hope people
remember ... is that it could happen to their child. I was
like everyone else and then it happened to us."]

Arthur and Doris Krause carry on their lives ten years after
the incident, but the pain and the lessons of the last ten
years are evident. "I think we are all responsible for the
killings at Kent. You can't get away from the hatred being
spread by national leaders during that time. That political
period was one which bred hate and with Nixon and Rhodes
fanning the fires you can expect killings to result."

Krause, the parent who initially began the quest for justice
in the Kent State case continued, "I knew what was going to
happen; that justice would not be served, but I wanted to
make sure that there was pressure applied. In the beginning
the other families were not as believing that nothing would
be done; I think they thought I was some sort of radical.
But I can tell you that if you don't stand up for your
rights they will be taken away from you just like they were
from Allison and the others."

Arthur and Doris Krause have mixed feelings about the 1979
settlement. "We don't want the damn money ~ we want the
truth. If we had wanted the money I would have accepted the
one and a half million dollar bribe I was offered to drop
the civil suit, offered to me in the presence of Peter
Davies in 1971.

We want the facts out about how the four died. We aren't
afraid of the truth. We aren't the ones who have been saying
`no comment' for the past ten years."

Arthur and Doris Krause hope the movie would generate more
of the same hate mail they have received for the past ten
years. "They always point out that my daughter had gravel in
her pockets . . . that this was the rationale for killing
her . . . why didn't they throw gravel at her?"

"The political climate is very similar to that in 1970,"
Krause added, "Kent State, 1970 means we no longer have our
daughter, but it also means something to all Americans. Our
court battles establish without a doubt one thing. There is
no constitution. There is no Bill of Rights." 
- Arthur S. Krause

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