Don Wildman

Was this a typical situation with these campuses and how local communities reacted?

Let's go through the chronology of these days.

May 1st, two peaceful rallies are held on the campus, followed by unrest downtown in the town of Kent.

Fires are lit, windows smashed.

The National Guard is called in and a state of emergency is declared.

Who calls that emergency?

The governor?

The next day, a thousand gather on the campus.

And this is what you refer to, the ROTC, the Army Training Building, is burnt down by a couple of protesters.

Was this an intended mission of that group or did this sort of happen in a random kind of way?

That's a big question for me in this because nowadays we are so conditioned to see these this news video of forces in answer.

You know, they all have their costume.

They all have their uniforms.

They all have their helmets.

Everybody around the world is now.

ready to control a riot somehow with big plexiglass shields and so forth.

Back then, it wasn't really like that.

And I wonder, although of course we see riots being controlled by everybody, but that's what I always wondered about this situation, whether it was a matter of training and understanding the circumstances as much as it was the intentional desire to control these things in a different way.

Yeah, exactly.

May 3rd, third day of these events unfolding, 1,200 National Guard are on the Kent State campus.