100 SEIZED, 13 WOUNDED AND 73 HURT – GUARDSMEN USE GAS AGAINST STUDENTS
From the New York Times, May 1, 1970
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 30 – National Guardsmen and police repeatedly scattered crowds of students on the campus today, firing hundreds of rounds of tear gas and pepper gas, and discharging shotguns at the youths.
Thirteen students were reportedly wounded, 73 injured and nearly 100 arrested. Seven persons were shot in yesterday’s rioting. The two-day arrest total is about 400.
Today’s fighting was touched off by the National Guard and police forces as students began gathering to hold a rally to protest yesterday’s violence.
A university vice president explained that only 500 or 550 guardsmen were on hand on the campus this morning instead of the 1,200 to 1,400 promised yesterday by Governor James A. Rhodes.
The guardsmen and policemen, the university official said, decided on a strategy of scattering the students gathered on a campus mall with tear gas to prevent them from gathering.
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