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wee DERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIO gu wee -} <, Varginia, advised t EET AR x 2 g vent to visit theib daughter at Kent State University. — . 6 ie weekend of May 2 - 8, 1970, and that they stayed in a: > — _ hotel in the Town of Kent, Ohio. She said that she remembered | “. that the motel was directly across or in the immediate vicinity. of the Kent State University campus. She said she recalled. .,.. they went over to the dormitory where her daughter was living — : a and the students became excited because tore) rally on the campus at the time Mr. and Bee wer ' the dormitory. She recdled that her husband suggested they _. leave and go to their motel, and she sugpested that they remain _ at the campus because she was curious to know what happened, and what the "kids" had to say. She remembered that some of her daughters friends (students at the University), her daughter her husband and she left the dormitory and started toward the area where the rally was to take place. She said that they ~~ were at the front of the group, but soon the students passed — , them and her daughter commented she was going on down and would ; see them back at the dormitory after the rally. '- a + See ; wna remembered that the group was singing .— and shouting and taunting the police, She also recalled that when they got to the crest of the hill overlooking the area. where the main body of students was holding the rally, she ~ _ and her husband decided to stop. She recalled that it was some distance, but she had no idea as to how far they were from the , ROTC Building which was burned at the time they were on the . = _ top of the hill looking down on the group. She said she could | “not see well enough to identify any of the students who set _~¢ . .- fire to the ROTC Building. She said she was too far away and. - it was too dark to see actually who was responsible for setting ', fire to the building.. She remenbered the National Guard troops had been in the Town of Kent but had not been on the campus until after the ROTC Building burned. She said she had not | — seen any confrontations by students and police or students and . Natisnal Guacd during Saturday night, May 2, 1870, She recalled | they Zeit the campus at about 11:00 PM and returned to Norfolk, _ Wirginia, Sunday, May 3, 1970. She safd that National Guardsmen Were observed on Sunday when they left Kent, Ohio. 0. 7 s - ; . i S/22/70 at __Norfolk, Virginia Fite # Norfolk 98-430 ~ har and of ne ye Date dictated 5/22/70 . This document contains neither recommendations aor conrlusions of the FBI. i is the property of the FBI and ix loane¢ , Four agency, Re and its contents pre not to be dizteibuted outside your agency. Coe tt : pee ooh spe omer — RPE GOS Lees ctor,