Kent State University Police Department, Records, 1965-1975
MAY 4 COLLECTION -- Boxes 77-81
Finding Aid
Prepared by Nancy Birk, December 16, 1993; Updated by Cara Gilgenbach, April 2006
5 record storage boxes, 1 slim document case, 5.16 cubic feet, 12th floor
Scope and Content
Certain office files of the Kent State University Police Department
were kept, presumably for their historical value, in a locked file
cabinet in the offices of the University's Legal Affairs until the Fall
of 1992 when they were transferred to the University Archives. Initial
appraisal of these records revealed that they contained records of some
juveniles and victims of crimes. These files were returned to the Office
of Legal Affairs for their destruction as that information is considered
privileged and would have been destroyed in the normal course of events.
The remaining files have been kept in their original order and
divided into appropriate series as follows. Rather than to reorganize
all of the subject files into a straight alphabetic order, the several
series of subject files are maintained as they were when processed. It
was thought by the processor that these distinct subject series had some
significance in their placement together.
Material in Series 8 and Series 9 were transferred to the Archives
also in 1992 but came from the Police Department directly and not from
Legal Affairs.
Series 1: Individual Records
Series 2: Subject Files
Series 3: Subject Files, continued
Series 4: Internal Personnel Files
Series 5: Photographs
Series 6: Exhibits from Trial -- VVAW vs. State of Ohio
Series 7: May 4, 1970 Subject Files
Series 8: Exhibits from Trial -- Krause vs. Rhodes
Series 9: Miscellaneous Materials
Series 10: Films
Please Note: Some files are partially restricted due to the presence
of personally identifiable information.
Box 77
Individual Records: Last Names A - Kl
Box 78
Individual Records: Last Names Ko - Z
Box 78A
Series 2 -- Subject Files
1 -- Akron Neighborhood League
2 -- American Indian Rights Association
3 -- Attorneys
4 -- Center for Peaceful Change
5 -- Community of the Krotch
6 -- Independent Jewish Student Movement
7 -- Institute for Afro-American Affairs
8 -- Ministers
9 -- Musical Bands
10 -- NAACP
11 -- Radha Krushma
12 -- Special Events
13 -- Special Events -- Other Universities
14 -- Student Senate
15 -- Townhall II
Series 3 -- Subject Files, continued
16 -- Anti-Semitic
17 -- Black Panther Party
18 -- Black United Students
Box 79
Folder -- Contents
1 -- C.C.C. Literature
2 -- Communist Party
3 -- C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality)
4 -- Cosa Nostra
5 -- Council on Freedom
6 -- Gay Liberation Front
7 -- Indiana Peace & Freedom Party
8 -- Jewish Defense League
9 -- Kent 25
10 -- Kent 29 -- 4/26/72
11 -- ROTC Disruption -- 5/20/71
12 -- ROTC Disrupt. -- 5/72
13 -- Kent Committee to End the War
14 -- Kent Community Store
15 -- Kent Council on Human Affairs
16 -- Kent Free University
17 -- Kent Legal Defense Fund
18 -- Kent Liberation Front
19 -- Kent Red Guard
20 -- Kent Student Movement
21 -- Ku Klux Klan
22 -- May Day Coalition
23 -- Minority Affairs
24 -- Mobobrious Pit
25 -- Motorcycle Groups
26 -- National Socialist Party
27 -- New Nation Sisters
28 -- New University Conference
29 -- Organization of Arab Students
30 -- Phoenix Publications
31 -- People's Coalition for Peace & Justice
32 -- Protestors in D.C. -- 5/71
33 -- The Right Arm
34 -- R.Y.M. Information Pamphlets
35 -- S.A.N.E.
36 -- Seattle Liberation Front
37 -- S.M.C. (Student Mobilization Committee)
38 -- S.N.C.C. (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
39 -- Socialist Workers Party
40 -- Strike (Kent) Paper
41 -- Student International Meditation Society
42 -- Student Peace Union
43 -- Student Religious Liberals
44 -- Student Rights Committee
45 -- Students For Calley
46 -- Weatherman
47 -- Women's Lib
48 -- Y.A.F. (Young Americans for Freedom)
49 -- Y.I.P. (Youth International Party)
50 -- Y.S.A. (Young Socialist Alliance) Information Magazines --
folder 1
51 -- Y.S.A. -- folder 2
Series 4 -- Internal Personnel Files
52 -- Ruckman's Case
Series 5 -- Photographs
53 -- Commons Demonstration (#5) -- 5/22/69
54 -- Demonstration, Music & Speech -- 4/16/69
55 -- SMC March -- 4/14/70
56 -- Akron University Fire -- 4/15/71
57 -- Liberation of Student Union -- 4/7/71
58 -- Proof Prints & Negatives -- Apr-Nov/68
59 -- Student Committee for Betterment of Housing
60 -- Akron Mobilization Committee -- 12/13/69
61 -- Demonstration, Bowman Hall -- 11/14/69
62 -- Ravenna High School Closing -- 4/21/71
63 -- Index to Photos
Box 80
Folder -- Contents
1 -- Washington March -- 2/68
2 -- Rally at Union, SDS -- 4//8/69
3 -- Music & Speech -- 4/16/69
4 -- Presidential News Conference
5 -- Miscellaneous Prints -- 11/68-4/69
6 -- Demonstration, SAC -- 11/8/68
7 -- Demonstration -- 11/5/68
8 -- Demonstration -- 11/18/68
9 -- Music & Speech -- 4/12/69
10 -- President Olds Convocation Speech -- 9/30/71
11 -- Administration -- 4/8/69
12 -- Presidential Commission
Series 6 -- Exhibits from Trial -- VVAW vs. State of Ohio
13 -- Exhibit A
14 -- Exhibit B
15 -- Exhibit C
16 -- Exhibit D
17 -- Exhibit E
18 -- Exhibit F
19 -- Exhibit G, folder 1
20 -- Exhibit G, folder 2
21 -- Exhibit G, folder 3
22 -- Exhibit H, H1
23 -- Exhibit I
24 -- Exhibit J
25 -- Exhibit K
26 -- Exhibit L
27 -- Exhibit M
28 -- Exhibit N
29 -- Exhibit O
30 -- Exhibit P
31 -- Exhibit Q
32 -- Mohr's Reports
33 -- Sources of Intelligence, folder 1
34 -- Sources of Intelligence, folder 2
35 -- Sources of Intelligence, folder 3
36 -- Sources of Intelligence, folder 4
Series 7 -- May 4, 1970 subject files
37 -- May Riots, 1970
Box 81
Folder -- Contents
1 -- ROTC Statements-May Disturbances 1971
2 -- Downtown Statements-May Disturbances 1971
3 -- Visitor Pass Log
4 -- Intelligence Meetings
5 -- Daily Patrol Radio and Phone Log 5/1-4/70
6 -- Reports of Investigation 5/1-4/70
7 -- Attendance Record 5/1-4/70
Series 8 -- Exhibits from Trial -- Krause v. Rhodes
8 -- Group 1
9 -- Group 2
10 -- Group 3
11 -- Group 4
12 -- Group 5
13 -- Group 6
14 -- Group 7
15 -- Group 8
16 -- Group 9
17 -- Group 10
18 -- Group 11
19 -- Group 12
20 -- Group 13
21 -- Group 14
22 -- Group 15
23 -- Group 16
24 -- Group 17
25 -- Group 18
Series 9 -- Miscellaneous materials
26 -- Visitors' Passes -- Used in 1970-71
Series 10 -- Films (most have no sound)
[Note: a VHS copy of the films listed below has been made for research purposes
and can be found in Box 95B of the May 4 Collection.]
1 -- 6/4/69 ROTC Day -- 16 mm, color
2 -- Tues. 4/8 Administration Building -- 16 mm, color
3 -- Wed. 4/9 Rally & Arrest -- 16 mm, color
4 -- November Riots and Interviews during SAC Sit-in -- 16 mm,
color
5 -- 3/69 Kent Moratorium; 10/15/69 March in Kent; 11/5/69 Union & ROTC -- 8mm,
color