Practice Field: End of the Advance
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Thirteen Seconds

Practice Field: End of the Advance, also, Thirteen Seconds. Pagoda. , Practice Field: End of the Advance, Demonstrators and spectators left the Commons and moved off in various directions. Students continued to pass by Taylor Hall on their way to class. , Troop G and Company A marched to the Practice Field. They stayed there for 10 minutes. Some knelt and aimed at a dozen or so demonstrators 150-200 feet away in the Prentice Hall parking lot. Student Alan Canfora waved a protest flag at the guardsmen. , Leaving Company C stationed between Taylor Hall and Prentice Hall, Major Jones easily walked past demonstrators to the Practice Field. General Canterbury conferred with Jones and other officers. Canterbury then ordered the troops to retrace their steps up Blanket Hill. , "Students would have required good right arms like Mickey Mantle's to have reached the guardsmen with even small stones." - James Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why, Thirteen Seconds, As the Guard marched back up Blanket Hill, members of Troop G clustered and looked back toward the Prentice Hall parking lot. At 12:24 p.m., the troops reached the Pagoda. Guardsmen on the trailing edge of the right flank, mostly from Troop G, wheeled 135 degrees in unison to face the parking lot. In the next 13 seconds, 28 guardsmen fired 67 shots. , Guardsmen killed Kent State students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer, 218-396 feet away, and wounded nine others. Joseph J. Lewis, 75 feet, stood closest to the guardsmen and Donald Scott Mackenzie, 603 feet, farthest. Struck when laying prone, 258 feet away, Dean R. Kahler was permanently paralyzed. , "I just stood there and thought to myself that surely they must be shooting blanks to scare the crowd off. Then I saw the bullets kicking up the dirt in front of me. I just turned and ran." - Ron Steel, Kent State freshman