Kent Instructor Tells of Killings

A Kent State University teaching fellow. told 30 people at Lowell Lecture Hall last night that last week's confrontation "seemed rather amusing" until guardsmen fired into the crowd.

"There was something playful about it." Leonard Deutsch said as he described National Guard attempts to break up the Kent State rally.

Deutsch. who is also an American Civil Liberties Union investigator, said the guardsmen ignored rock-throwing students and aimed at the larger group of peaceful demonstrators and students walking through the university parking lot between classes.

"They [the National Guardsmen] were hardly hard-pressed." Deutsch said. He added that there were 100 more guardsmen only 1000 feet away, that the soldiers had not been backed against any building, that none were seriously injured by rock throwers, and that the students regrouping in the parking lot posed no threat to guardsmen.

Deutsch, who made his allegations primarily on the basis of ACLU interviews with witnesses of the shooting said that no one-Kent students and faculty included-has been permitted on the campus to gather evidence except for government investigators.

All the guardsmen involved in the shooting have been isolated in an armory 30 miles from Kent where ACLU lawyers have not been allowed to interview them.