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...Nixon speech. They burned uniforms, smashed typewriters, threw files out of windows and caused at least $10,000 worth of damage. Several thousand students joined the others in blocking U.S. Highway 1 for 40 minutes. Police finally sought the help of National Guardsmen to break it up. At Kent State University in Ohio, 500 students set fires and damaged automobiles in a rampage along Kent's Main Street. The one-story ROTC building was burned to the ground. Fifteen protesters were arrested at Southern Illinois University after several hundred broke windows and battled cops. ROTC ceremonies were forcibly disrupted...
Fourteen different speakers addressed the rally, including Doug Miranda, East Coast Captain of the Black Panther Party, Peter Camejo, of the Socialist Worker Party, a Kent State student, a high school student, six members of Bread and Roses, and two labor union representatives...
Citing the death of the four Kent State students, he asked the audience to "remember how many times black people have stood before you and tried to make you understand how vicious the pigs...
Meanwhile, a memorial service for the four Kent State students slain last week was held at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. After the service, thousands marched to the White House and set burning candles on the fence outside the President's mansion...
...meeting this morning on the steps of Widener Library will attempt to solidify a strike by University library employees. The strikers will protest the four deaths at Kent State as well as U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia...