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Kent State — Part 21

114 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: May 2, 1970 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kent State · 112 pages OCR'd
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5 > CG 98-1975 . advised that at the intersection of Main and Lincoln Streets he observed the Ohio National Guard (ONG) approaching in trucks and jeeps. He advised that the people standing on the sidewalks began to scatter but then stopped when they realized that the ONG would not do anything anyway. He advised that the group in the streets, however, began throwing rocks at the ONG, which then picked up speed and proceeded into downtown Kent without ever entering the KSU campus. He advised that this was at about midnight. He advised that this a seemed to encourage the crowd and as a result some students began smashing windows in a information booth located in front of the library. QE yised that the crowd then proceeded back Tote the Commons at which point the KSU police again shot gas. He advised that the crowd began to scatter when numerous people began shouting "back to the Commons", and he observed large flames on the horizon near where the ROTC building was located. He advised that » a cheer went up from the crowd as they realized that the ROTC building was burning out of control and would soon be destroyed, GEES «2. <<: that at about 12:30 AM, he left and went back to his dormitory. He advised that ‘“throughtout the night there were small groups of people milling around the campus and he heard and saw many Students leaning out the windows of the dormitorics yelling obscenities at the ONG. GD + :v:scs that Sunday was very quiet and many students acutally Socialized with memhers of ee ee ee ee TF the ONG and the entire atmosphere seemed to him to have calmed down considerably. He advised that he and some friends spent approximately one hour talking with some guardsmen and he would have been the last to think that ‘any additional violence would have broken out.
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