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Kent State — Part 6
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* When they heard the rally forming on the Kent State =.”
University Commons, they went to talk to the students,
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talked to numerous students in the group that was attendi
the rally. He knew many of the students, haever, he re-_
fused to identify any of them and he stated that his |
position with the University prevented him from: igentifys
any of the students that he saw during the whole evening
although he knew many of them, He stated that he would
furnish this informstion, howevers if he were ‘compelled: t
Go so in court. | - — a Lo
. ; After milling around the ‘Commons ‘for a short rv
the crowd gravit wards the bell located at one end
ef the Commons. & sonoted a number of very young kids
possibly high schoéT age in the crowd. He then saw a com
pletely unfamiliar individual get up on the bell and urce
the students to go towards Tri Towars, a dormitory to get
more support. At that time there were roughly 500 studen
there. . , .
; The mob then headed towards Tri Towers.
did not follow, They returned shortly thepegficer,
tg then asked
gained a few more members of the mob,
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- some students among the white armed band or responsible
‘ student leader group to cut out of thé crowd ariyone they
could, He refused to identify these individua].s also.
These individuals did separa several people Iirom the mo
The mob then moved quickly the ROTC Buidirig. This *
approximately 8:30 P.M. There was no security whatever. £
the building. When the mob arrived at the bui].ding, a he
core group of 20 to 25 persons moved in and thr-ew rocks
at the ROTC Building. Then they moved back quj.ckly appa
waiting for a response €rom the police, There was none,
so they moved forward again and resumed rocking: the buil«
Ee this group of hard-core individuals none ¢ >of whom
“Yenew at all, one individual who he counlé! not recot
7 and would not be able to “recognize again “moved out, ran ‘
the ROTC Bujlding end threw. an incendiary devic ‘eof some :
into the east £xde of the building. He did not: think th
“were any Faculty: member 5 near where these hard core e indi
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