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\/ VA “ ‘ FEDERAL BUREAU CF INVESTIGATI.. :% qc Dere___5/16/70 | advised on May 16, 1970, he iS a first year : rent State University, Ohio, and resides on campus =. Me Dowell iliall. . On the evening of May 2, 1970, a student rally had been announced to be helid on theg weocated on the caiapus at 8 p.m, that evening. yarrived 37 some 8:30 p.m., with fFeilow students * and f$pproximately one to two thousand stugents Were I CL y» which began moving away from the Cormons about the Cine es ie heard no inflammatory speecies urging the burning of the ROTC building or any vuther colleze buildings. frees S M2Ae SN i SE) Fa The crowd circled around the caapius until approxi- mately $:3G om 58 u.m., when the students returned to the Commons area where Qa °>servea the ROLC building on fire. The ecord oF students went up to a hill cverlooking the Commons area and watched the Fire. Vhere were numscrous ¥Yireinen and fire apparatugse tne scppeeeety this time, hed become seperated fro: an “eee Od Was alone. Later on at perhaps ll p.m., or after, Ghio National Guerd Troops arrived and began firing tear sas to disperse the crovd of students and forced their return to the dormitory area. a jenied any knowledge of which person or which Eroup wos pesponsible --for the fire and estimated about £80 to 1,000 Kent State students ar2 hard-core j;ilitents wno would destroy the system by viclent means and said there were many more who are sympathetic to such militants. stated that he himself is sympathetic but rould not VEPELCLpAate in violent action too, as an expression of protcst. 1 furnish no information on those responsibie i nm a a es ee File#_Philadciphia 98-7502 _ -Dete dictoted__._ 9/7 1.6/79 Ths document contoins nellher recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FB] ond is looned to your agency: itond its conients are notte be distribuled oulside your ogency. 20 aA ee —nacnepcinmeegegin mmr me + were nsmss 4 oh rs eee pt pee Hote <5 mea tema amt