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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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” ' wo lo said he ee away fron the soup up n att tovard Taylor’ Hall ‘and from that point saw young people try to start the kOTC Building on J he w was unable | to identi 'y these individuals, noma oS At ‘this point he said he saw an unknown sale oa ‘Andividuad leave an incendiary device on the porch of the ROTC Building, He said the wood started burning but eradua: went out by itself. He said then another person unknown to him threw sone type of incendiary device through the windoy 2 ba the ROTC Bualainig and very Blowy the “building began to UrB. 4 oat. Ala “He said that about this time he observed the pres . of what he had thought were campus police in the vicinity | of the KSU Power Plant, He said shortly aftervards a’fire truck appeared on the scene with a car following it. A =~ _fircman took out the hose in an attempt to put out the fire, ae e Said that he thought someone was getting Sprayed | by ny GOSS AS he Gould see watex Spraying around the area by the fireman at the crowd but he was not close grough to : | Bctually see what was happening. He said shortly after tha‘ he could see students running around with the hose with cuts in it and water squirting out everywhere. He said then more police arrived possibly wearing helmets and possibly. . being campus policemen, He said he thovght there were 5-10 .. of these individuals, He said they appeared to only have ni Sticks and they backed . the crowd onto the Commons. ; “He. said the fire dn the ROTC Building appeaxcd . oS to ‘be dying so the leaders of the crowd left the area and ~ worked thei» wey toward Prentice Hall, He said that in tha! sane vicinity primarily the same 5-10 young people fron the ." erovd began a fire in the storage shed near the: tennis ‘scouts, He Said that he had heard that this fire was starte - ,because the shed supposedly housed ROTC equipment. He said ¢hait the same people who were starting the fires began takir “" items from the shed and breaking them, He stated that the - “-; Sane group of 5-10 individuals went down around the tennis courts toward Terrace Drive,. He said that at this point . " some of the student yere afraid that the trees in the . =: “oy wieinity of the shed might catch on fire and they fornred ..& Bucket linc and put out the fire in the shed, . ic ciated . this: took about 30 minutes. . as eR FEIN ee PTE RS NEE AES ~~ \
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