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Kent State — Part 21
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> 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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