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Kent State — Part 8

20 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: May 10, 1970 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kent State · 20 pages OCR'd
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“UN. STATES QOPARTHMENT or f° nee “EDERAL. BUREAU OP INVESTIGATION Copy tos q- USA, CLEVELAND 1c a | Repo ot: SA th Office: “CLEVELAND Fleld Office File #: 98-2140 — | _ i - Buea File #, wd 2M ogee pela : Titles UNEDO! i SUBJECTS: : Firebombing of Army ROTC Building, Kent State University (Ksv) | Kent, Ohio May 2, 1970 SABOTAGE: SEDITION; oO REX DESTRUCTION OF GOVERN: 1ENT PROPERTY} CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1968 - INTERFERENCE WITH] PEDERALLY PROTECTED FACILITY | On evening of 5/2/70, the Army ROTC : ‘building at ‘Kent ‘stat University (KSU), Kent, Ohio, was destroyed by fire durin campus disruption. -Investigation wes initiated bY, the . Ksu currently has enrollment of epproxinately 21, 000 ‘stud ue It is second largest university in State of Ohio’ and As. ! “io, keportedly ranked 24th in size nationally, | me Civil disorders started in the City of Kent, Ohio, ‘during a the evening of 5/1/70 When crowds gathered ‘in the streets and went on a rampage breaking windows: in downtown stores On the evening of 5/2/00 a crowd of about 500. indi: s gathered adjacent to the Army ROTC building on . Some merbers of this crowd threw rocks and debi building and set it on fire. Members of the’ cro threw rocks at menbers of the KSU campus police. d and the Kent, City Fire Department, whe Were .attemp Kestore order and a put out fire.
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