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the crowd. She recalled that shortly thereafter an archery
shed on campus was set fire by some students and she does not
know any identities and then some other students tried to put
out this fire. She stated she thinks there were some other
small fires started that were put out and then the crowd of
students started downtown toward the city of Kent. At this
point the National Guard stopped them and sent tem back to
the campus and ordered everybody to immediately get out of
Sight and into any dormitory they could. Shortly thereafter
a grace period of half hour or so was given for all of the
students to return to their respective dormitories.
On Sunday morning, May 3, 1970, she went back to
her office to work and heard abvut a rally planned for that
evening. The student body that night started marching all
over the campus and she estimated the numper to be two or
three thousand. The National Guard tear gaaed them on at
least one or two occasions and whentthe crowd started
downtown towards the city of Kent, the Sheriff's Department
or Police Department told them to go back to campus and when
the students did go back they were tear gassed again by the
Guard.
She knew of no more incidents on . that night and the
following morning, which was Monday, May 4, 1970, classes were
resuced and she knew that there were at least a few bomb
Scares some place on campus. She was leaving Fletcher Hall
to go to Malton Hall and recalled seeing some tear gas and
flares. She recalled hearing what she thought was fire-
crackers and then a few seconds later heard noise that _
sounded to her like a machine gun going off but then later
thought it may have been a volley of shots from the Guard,
one right after the other and tit is why she thought of a
machine gun. She could not see the Guerd at the time due to
her position but when she ran towards her dest ination she
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