Don Wildman

This is when the governor of Ohio, Jim Rhodes, he promises at a press conference that he's going to use law enforcement against the students, declares that the protests are caused by a group of agitators going to campus to campus.

This is language we hear even today.

But nonetheless, the room, the university remains open with classes going ahead.

Those demonstrators then block traffic and become dispersed with tear gas and importantly, bayonets.

Right.

This is always a startling thing to me that you would fix bayonets when dealing with what is essentially a bunch of unarmed, you know, rather peaceful in most cases, protesters.

Why the bayonets?

Let us go there.

May 4th, the demonstrations have been banned.

That's announced by a distribution of leaflets.

That seemed interesting to me.

What did the leaflets say?

Brian, you say that the amount of guardsmen on the campus is about 100.

I previously mentioned 1,200.

It's a whole bunch of deployment going on here in the area, right?

It's important to realize that at this point, you're talking about a massive group of people, you know, thousands of students against what is essentially a hundred National Guardsmen, right?

Correct.

How does that unfold?

Okay.

At that point, you had the students pretty well dispersed across what is Blanket Hill, at the top of Blanket Hill.