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Kent State — Part 6
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an " Shortly after nae, two students obtained | Rn bare!
““: and uSing it as a bottcring ram, broke one of the ROTC ~:
' windows. Shortly after this he saw a flare which he | |
des scribed as 2 regulnr highway type flare, being thrown:
through the broken vindow. He was approxinately 20 foet |
from the window at this timc but did pot see the student |
vho threw the flare. After the flare was thrown inside,
he saw the light from | Llanes inside but did not actually
ce the flenes. a
a Shortly after this, a fire truck arrive d ond
firencn begin to attenpt to put out what fire wes inside |
the building, but students harassed them and cut their _
ee water hoses, The water was then turned off and-the firene
“aos Just stood arcund and did not ettempt to extingvsh the
ORES fiames. He stated the flames apparently went out by then-
Selves and ct this tine one student became highly incensed
we at the crowd and attempted to get other students to fight
Poco... | back against the rioters. He stated that in order to
Be bring sone sort of peace to the situation he took this
Pat student, name unknown, to the Student Union Building vhere
“ - " they sat and talked and hed a cold drink. ‘He stated that
aa while he was trying to enln this student, one of his
a graduste students : Werte enae into the Buicn
oe ——Z /he was doing in the aren. §&
phere only to observe the situatio
aryen
-S Te as in the Student Union Building for
coco. 6Bpproxinttely 30 minutes and decided that he had better le
‘= $0: go back and check on Willians
feo. go Cith him and"? declined. Res.) 3
apparently wondered Back to the crov
= previously not seen ee, ot HE Crowd during the tine
the students were a ng to set fire to the building,
oy Pee ont back to Willians finll and approximately
- Sone hour latex started back to the Commons, areca at which
Dae rine he saw a glow in the sky and knew that the students |
wits hed been successful in setting the ROTC building on fire,
Sopa bore
Coc ae stated that he ‘dia not. ‘niow any of the a
me students aetually participating in the riot or attemptin
3-1 to set the building on fire and did not know which |.
[oe 6 gtudents vere actually successful in setting the buildin
oop ly. OM Lire. He stated that while he tas there he believed
Jf. ¥"- there was no more than five students doing the "dirty work
“."" and there was probably only four or five students that
were actually throwing the rocks at the building and he di
not believe he could identify these individuals should he
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