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Slate: WNET 13 New York. Series Bill Moyers' Journal, Recd: 12/19/72; Air 12/19/72; Title Justice Delayed; ppm no. 106; length 28:50

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Slate: "Justice delayed is not only justice denied...it is also justice circumvented, justice mocked, and the system justice undermined."
-Richard M. Nixon, March 11, 1971. with narration

Cutaway to a montage of b&w still photos (to the beat of a drum) depicting the horrors of the Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970.

Moyers standing outdoors in front of a parked car on a dreary day and wearing a trench coat, announces the statistics of that day - four students dead, one paralyzed, eight wounded. He states, "...but 2 1/2 years later, the Federal Government has refused to call a Grand Jury to investigate the killings and determine whether anyone who was involved should be brought to trial." He states that students at Kent State are wondering why the killings occurred and why justice has been delayed.

Bill Moyers in the studio continuing talk about the topic of tonight's program, why has there not been a grand jury called to investigate the killings at Kent State. Why has the federal government refused to act.

Moyers reads further from September 26, 1970 President's Commission on Campus Unrest that determined..."The indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were un-necessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable."

Moyers sitting in front of large TV screen showing photos of var suspects, Daniel Elsburg, the Berrigen Brothers and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. zoom in on b&w photo of the veterans at a protest.

Moyers sitting in front of large TV screen On the screen is a still of himself standing next to Professor Jerry Lewis, Faculty Marshall at Kent State who witnessed the tragedy.

Lewis takes Moyers' arm turns him around and points to exactly where the Guard fired down into the parking lot. He states he heard no orders, "they just turned and started firing...61 rounds in 13 seconds..."

Wide shot of the campus parking lot

Michael Delaney, National Guardsman with long hair and mustache - the only one who would talk to Moyers. Delaney talking with Moyers (unseen) states the Governor ordered there would be no student assemblies legal, peaceful, or otherwise.

Michael Delaney explains the moments and what they saw before the actual shooting - people playing tennis, basketball, couples, students walking.

Same talking head male student other students sitting around him listening to what he has to say about how the National Guard began to fire and the events of that day.

Zoom in on another more conservative looking Kent State faculty member explaining some events that happened after the shooting.

Same National Guardsman talking head Delaney remembers talking with a secretary from the municipal office who seemed unusally happy, and when he told her the news of what happened she said, "oh yeah its about time someone showed them a thing or two, I wish you had lined up all the kids, you know, with sandals and long hair, and shot them." !!

Zoom in on Voorenberg, he discusses, with unseen interviewer, about the process, purpose and responsibility of a Grand Jury.

Ahearn, a member of the President's Commission of Campus Unrest, discusses their findings. He states they concluded that the guard was not threatened or in serious jeopardy, and that the shootings were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable.

Moyers unseen introduces, Joseph Rhodes, Jr., former member of the President's (Richard Nixon) Commission on Campus Unrest

Rhodes explains there seemed to be coaching on the part of the Guardsman and a repetition in the report to say they were threatened, he states that Justice Dept's summary of the FBI report indicates justification of a Grand Jury based on a falsification of evidence.

Moyers unseen introduces two students at Kent State, Paul Kean and Greg Ramble who spearheaded a drive for a petition for Richard Nixon to convene a Grand Jury investigation into a tragedy.

Pan out on the room with Kean, Ramble, Olds and Bill Moyers as they speak about the petition and what happened when they took it to the President (Nixon).

Moyers unseen introduces Arthur Krause - his daughter Alison was killed during the massacre

Still photo Allison Krause, a student who was killed by a National Guardsman at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

Interview with Kraus concludes. Moyers outside on a gloomy day at Kent State sums up the program. A cry for justice. He states, "30 months later, the question remains, WHY?"

fade out, show end.

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