I grew up 6 miles from KS. Those SDS criminals had been agitating for quite some time on the campus. Local news was broadcasting their speeches about “burning the beorgouis in their beds”. My dad slept on the couch with a shotgun.
I feel no sympathy for them.
Beat me to SDS. They were also hanging around the High Schools at the time. Before the Kent State incident my teacher Father was well aware of them at his own school. (suburb of Cleveland) They weren’t there for very long ;)
None of us were shocked by just WHO was disrupting at KSU. The knee jerk reactions were exactly what we have now. Not much has changed..only the players.