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kent-state-shooting — Part 04

104 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: May 15, 1970 · Broad topic: General · Topic: kent-state-shooting · 104 pages OCR'd
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cr r 5 ‘in the gosoliuce fron 93-2140 “this to the University Police as I folt my ctfort to restrain the cra were futiic I saw no University Police in evidence at this tine. I reported to the desk sergeant that ‘they hava thrown @% railread flare in the R.O.7.C. buiiding, and WiLL burn it down.! Uiss response wes to racio one of his patrol units, to ag is whey could see tho pullding burnive. Their response was apparently nega- tive, and i toid the dosk pergoant that if he and J ptood there diccugsinge whether or not the building was burning, for ten minvies, it certainly would be Ne thanked m2 for my report, and was making other calls on the KRALO, cso I ieft and returned toa the victnity of the .O.7.C,. building, ‘rhe denonustrators were still threvines stoncs at the Windows, and at one point two cr three of then ruched the building with a les and threw it through «a window, bweaking tho cross-rramo. The Zivst reilrond Share anpparcntly did not do the job, anloot bemst teo other attempts wore rade to set the Duildines efire. Gre cenonsisva tor sct the eurteins at one of We windows aflanc, Tooay burned, but did uot appear to set the builcing on fire. Several of tho dcinonstrators then approzched two notoveycles on the cinder parking lot, sealed rass their tanks, and set those af10:30 in the building. I still enforcement officials in the ‘prea. S aeny £ La "A fire truck arrived, and the firemen atteoapted to sef ub their hoses, One apposrec to ccne from the dixsection of the Commons, as I caw water squirting up, and I assumed that the hose had poen cut, I did gee one domonstrater with a ahowthed “huuting knife on his belt, with an eight to twelve inch blade, Guc firoman sucecceed in getting a hone attached at the hydrant at the novthwest corney of the building, and was procceding to draz iv, with water coainz fron tho nouzle, ta the soviinvest corner of the buiiding, where tno five was started. I herard shouts of ‘get the hose! frou the crevd, ans four to six of tie denonstrators Yun uo to the Tirernan, seuffled with hin, 2nd took the hore away fron hin. Tucy apreared to turn the hose on the fire truck, and thea cut it. ! gD ae em Ite RA Nn tl hee ade ee a Re — fa nafeernepent tp cs gongicd b ape amen $ setmureennein
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