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Kent State — Part 13

41 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: May 2, 1970 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kent State · 41 pages OCR'd
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wet te a eta Gv 98-2140 ‘ Jph)é K it ouffer Hall. He added CDM oo room whom he identi di yh diemgow GIT (Tend, 3 boys named EE” wag WHOSU' Tast names he did not know, CSE nemairemercm in Py . rT re Said that at the time he was ink: room he novcd that students and others were mill ng about ee oe Te. «j-#8f campus and they went out to see what was happening. He said Groups of people were yelling and shouting and he noted that a a American flag was burned. He also noted that some young peor) ge “were throwing rocks at the ROTC building and he could hear the .. Yroecks hitting the building and breaking the windows. He state alas. at this time that it was dusk to dark and he recalls seeing fle being thrown and noted some of them would hit the side of the ” building and fall to the ground. He said there was one group “RF : Of people who were throwing numerous flares and he noted the at group consisted of three boys and one girl, He said that one ar of the boys was wearing long dark curly hair and had on a yello _ light-weight jacket. He said that students on the campus: descr . the students who would do such a thing as throwing rocks and fl _* @8 “the crazies", He stated one of this group of flare thrower te the one with the yellow jacket, left his @roup who were throwin - - flares against one side of the building, ran to the opposite si of the ROTC building and threw flares into an open window at th “ner of the building, the glass in this window having been previ broken by rocks. He estimated it took about 60 minutes from th time of the first flare being thrown until the ROTC butlding wa enveloped in flames, He added he believes the people who set f to the ROfc building were in the bufiding first before throwing the flares and may have poured gasoline on the drape Me Us a ee wR OWS ww Me poe oo “ic tated that when the fire department arrived on the scene “he saw groups of people who would pick.up the fire hose and immediately thereafter would see water spurti a, . Up froa the hose at the point at which {t was picked up: and cs .,° therefore he would have to assume that these’ people were cuttin >. the fire hoses, . Fy, . — a 7 a ™ stated th ws yet nh Bee . that two o weE"“Tour person been previously arrested a .< Who had been released from jail just 2 or 3 days prior to the - * burning of the ROTC building were on the campus Saturday at the 2>" time of the burning. Bo a a & s ie Fy ey, ‘ Pi 7 a a he 2? ars Ty et ca . “ x * iy . J * a _ oa “y re OR See ne = ole Aa Villas feet na boi ye eh eT OW MEAT gf he Eee Rage ae ee
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