Kent State student speaks at KU
Allen Schott, a student at Kent State University, spoke Friday to three different groups on the University of Kansas campus, giving students his eye-witness account of what happened at Kent last week.
Schott diagrammed on a blackboard the moves of the guardsmen and students on the Kent campus. He also answered any questions from the crowds that gathered at 9:30 a.m. in 112 Blake Hall, at 11:30 a.m. at the campanile and at 12:30 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
The students at Kent moved around campus and were split several times by the guardsmen, according to Schott. Finally the guardsmen tear gassed the group and moved up a hill back to the Commons area, the students following.
Then he saw one guardsman pull a gun from his holster and fire at the crowd. Other guardsmen began shooting, some in the air, some at the crowd. They shot for what he estimated to be not more than ten seconds.
The sniper that was reported spotted by a helicopter patrol has been proved a false report, he said.
When asked whether there was
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any truth to the report that there was a gun in the crowd of students, he said that there was, but it was being carried by a representative of the university and was not fired.
The rock throwing started, he said, after the crowd had been
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tear gassed and were following the guards up the hill to the Commons area. The rocks were the size of golfballs and base-balls, he said.
Allen Schott, a student from Kent State University, spoke to three gatherings on campus Friday about what happened at Kent.
One of the students was shot coming out of her dorm and was on her way to class, but Schott said he did not know if she was one of the ones killed.
After the shots were fired, there was a general panic and students ran, he said. When asked if any guardsmen stopped to help the injured, he said he saw none. He and other people tried to stand around the injured people to keep the crowd from running over them.
Schott, whose next door neighbor was one of the four killed, said he was speaking here, "so that your next door neighbor doesn't get killed."
Schott said he and other people were speaking about the Kent shooting because they want to clarify just what happened. Almost all of Kent's 17,000 students evacuated the campus, Schott said. Only about 200 remained, most of them foreign students.
Schott read for the crowd a section from the 1967 riot training manual for the National Guard on the handling of snipers. The manual said that "snipers should be engaged only on order and by a single selected marksman or team." Laying down a barrage, he read, accomplishes nothing and endangers the lives of other people.
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Schott said he had no idea what kind of action was going to be taken against the guardsmen. He said that the campus was under martial law at the time the guardsmen were on campus.
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