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Kent State — Part 15

104 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: May 15, 1970 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kent State · 104 pages OCR'd
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AL 98-963 the crowd. She recalled that shortly thereafter an archery shed on campus was set fire by some students and she does not know any identities and then some other students tried to put out this fire. She stated she thinks there were some other small fires started that were put out and then the crowd of students started downtown toward the city of Kent. At this point the National Guard stopped them and sent tem back to the campus and ordered everybody to immediately get out of sight and into any dormitory they could. Shortly thereafter a grace period of half hour or so was given for all of the students to return to their respective dormitories. On Sunday morning, May 3, 1970, she went back to her office to work and heard abcut a rally planned for that evening. The student body that night started marching all over the campus and she estimated the numper to be two or three thousand, The National Guard tear gaaed them on at least one or two occesions and whentthe crowd started downtown towards the city of Kent, the Sheriff's Department or Police Department told them to go back to campus and when the students did go back they were tear gassed again by the Guard. She knew of no more incidents on | that night and the following morning, which was Monday, May 4, 1970, classes were resumed and she knew that there were at least a few bomb scares some place on campus. She was leaving Fletcher Hall to go to Malton Hall and recalled seeing some tear gas and flares. She recalled hearing what she thought was fire- crackers and then a few seconds later heard noise that _ sounded to her like a machine gun going off but then later thought it may have been a volley of shots from the Guard, one right after the other and tit is why she thought of a machine gun. She could not see the Guard at the time due to her position but when she ran towards her dest ination she
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