Word: ohio
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...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 at the University...
Governor Ronald Reagan of California yesterday afternoon asked all seven state universities to close until Sunday, so that students could consider "the grave sequence of current events." Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes said that all Ohio universities experiencing unrest should be shut down immediately...
...Kent, Ohio, Adj. General S. T. Del Corso said that he had no evidence to support his assertion Monday that a sniper fired at National Guardsmen before the troops shot and killed the four demonstrators at Kent State University...
Four students-two men and two women-were killed by the volley. They were identified as Jeffrey Miller, 20, of Plainview, N. Y.; Allison Krause, 19, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Sandy Lee Scheuer, 20, of Youngstown, Ohio; and William Schroeder, 19, of Lorain, Ohio...
Citing the plight of blacks in America and the recent deaths at Kent State University in Ohio, Miranda denounced what he called "the frivolous attitude of the meeting." He added, however, that he believed the political consciousness of white students was catching up with that of "Niggers...