"It was immediately known that there had been deaths, but the initial report was that the deaths were of Guardsmen, based on a misunderstanding by a United Press International reporter,” Alex Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writes in the foreword to my guest’s book. “That wrong information was circulated instantly throughout the nation by other newspapers. The Beacon Journal’s reporter on the scene said it was four students who had been killed. The issue was fraught, as one version of events had the students firing on the Guardsmen. But the editors went with their own reporter’s ver
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