Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portage County, Ohio, courthouse last week, the trials began for the first of the Kent 25-students, outsiders and one professor indicted a year ago for rioting, arson and other crimes supposedly committed just before the campus shootings of May 4, 1970. On that day, four students were killed and ten wounded by National Guard gunfire. The same grand jury that handed down the indictments exonerated the National Guardsmen of any blame for the deaths. Last week a trial jury of eight men and four women visited the campus to examine the site of the slayings. TIME Correspondent William Friedman...
...Portage County, Ohio jury found Jerry Rupe guilty of interfering with firemen but was deadlocked over the felony counts of arson, first-degree riot, and assaulting a fireman. The jurymen were dismissed after eight hours of deliberation on the three felony charges...
Common Pleas Court Judge Albert L. Caris dismissed charges of arson and first-degree riot against the second defendant, Peter C. Bliek, on account of insufficient evidence. Four prosecution witnesses had been unable to place Bliek at the scene of the fire...
...Jersey City. A week later in Cambridge, Md., amid racial tension, he declared: "If America doesn't come around, then black people are going to burn it down." After parts of Cambridge did indeed burn down that July of 1967, Brown was charged with inciting to riot and arson. He vanished in March 1970 while out on $10,000 bail, shortly after a bomb blast killed two of his associates while they were driving in Bel Air, Md.-where pretrial hearings for Brown were being held...
...community can escalate toward tragedy. Michener convinces the reader when he says: "Kent could be your community." He conveys the diverse personalities involved: the shy, scholarly university president, the ambitious anticampus county prosecutor. He demonstrates fondness for the students who died and also revulsion at the window-smashing and arson tactics of the student rioters. Michener puts some controversies into perspective. There were off-campus agitators inflaming the crowd, and most students were unaware that the fatal Monday rally had been declared illegal...