Why then did the NG get off? For some reason some of the facts have been lost over the years.
They didn't. The lawsuits could not establish who (if anyone) ordered them to fire, or who fired first, or even who fired and who didn't. Some fired high deliberately. But the guard itself, and its parent, the State of Ohio, had to pay $672,000 (if memory serves me) to the survivors of each of the victims.
