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Kent State — Part 6

70 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kent State · 70 pages OCR'd
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an " Shortly after nae, two students obtained | Rn bare! ““: and uSing it as a bottcring ram, broke one of the ROTC ~: ' windows. Shortly after this he saw a flare which he | | des scribed as 2 regulnr highway type flare, being thrown: through the broken vindow. He was approxinately 20 foet | from the window at this timc but did pot see the student | vho threw the flare. After the flare was thrown inside, he saw the light from | Llanes inside but did not actually ce the flenes. a a Shortly after this, a fire truck arrive d ond firencn begin to attenpt to put out what fire wes inside | the building, but students harassed them and cut their _ ee water hoses, The water was then turned off and-the firene “aos Just stood arcund and did not ettempt to extingvsh the ORES fiames. He stated the flames apparently went out by then- Selves and ct this tine one student became highly incensed we at the crowd and attempted to get other students to fight Poco... | back against the rioters. He stated that in order to Be bring sone sort of peace to the situation he took this Pat student, name unknown, to the Student Union Building vhere “ - " they sat and talked and hed a cold drink. ‘He stated that aa while he was trying to enln this student, one of his a graduste students : Werte enae into the Buicn oe ——Z /he was doing in the aren. §& phere only to observe the situatio aryen -S Te as in the Student Union Building for coco. 6Bpproxinttely 30 minutes and decided that he had better le ‘= $0: go back and check on Willians feo. go Cith him and"? declined. Res.) 3 apparently wondered Back to the crov = previously not seen ee, ot HE Crowd during the tine the students were a ng to set fire to the building, oy Pee ont back to Willians finll and approximately - Sone hour latex started back to the Commons, areca at which Dae rine he saw a glow in the sky and knew that the students | wits hed been successful in setting the ROTC building on fire, Sopa bore Coc ae stated that he ‘dia not. ‘niow any of the a me students aetually participating in the riot or attemptin 3-1 to set the building on fire and did not know which |. [oe 6 gtudents vere actually successful in setting the buildin oop ly. OM Lire. He stated that while he tas there he believed Jf. ¥"- there was no more than five students doing the "dirty work “."" and there was probably only four or five students that were actually throwing the rocks at the building and he di not believe he could identify these individuals should he *. gee them again. —B9F BO Shar tee ae Oe ieee Poe art ~. <r re --.7 ee Koes, ies ae % rid % os ” oF a 3% a Fe RET CL gos Vib PTT GOED eee
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