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Kent State — Part 6
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os OMA small group of “the , crowd,’ cocbspay” "20 people,
picked up cocks and beyan thr owing then. at the ROTC buildi
. Some of the rocks broke out windows if the building. - At’ t!
time Someone in the crowd threw a red flare on the roof of.
the ROTC building, but the roof was metal and the. flare ro!
oft without doing any famage. ats Sof re bee
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the crovd with 4 or § other faculty ‘Rarshals, oe
—aand Glen Frank. ee ee
"At this time the rock throving ceased ‘and 4 or.
young peaple came out of the crowd, unidentifiable to nee!
took handkerchiefs from their pocket, dipped then into =
the gasoline tank of a motorcycle (parked on the edge of *”
the parking lot) ran to the ROTC building, ignited the _
handkerkerchiefs and dropped them thrdugh the broken... =
“window Of the building. Approxinately 3 or 4 handkerchiefs
vere dropped into the building all through the Sane window,
located on the woutheast side of the building. oe —
nAt thts point the orowd Béened to. move ‘bask ‘and
waited for the building to catch on fire... In about 5 te 7
minutes a single fire truck appeared coming down Portage.
Drive, parking in the lot to the north of the ill-fated RO’
_ building. At this tine a Small L flpoker of ‘flame could be Z
seen | through the window. ot as
"A single fireman cane ott of the truck with 2 ~
‘hose and when the water pressure was turned on, four young
people came out of the crowd and wrestied him to the grounc
I could not identify these people, but I did not bee anys.
weapons in their hands. I was about 46 feet fron the.
incident. The fireman then retreated to the fire truck.
“At that time 2 or 3 young people slashed the fire hose, ee
7 “apparently with, knives, which I could not, Bee... ee
"A second fire ‘truck arrived with a “group of ae
“approximately 20 armed men in blue uniforms, apparently .
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police officers, Ths unifornsed men formed 405 TxXGUT OF the
ae ROTC building and fired tear gas into. the. 2 Sronde 0»
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. “ Soe “The crowd then ‘pulled back to’ ‘tha northeast, tye
; to ‘the @dge of the tennis courts.: And the firezan attenpte
_ to Pat ths fire out. _ Than a _Broup | of. students Bet f8 | to
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