According to the Film, the cause of the student riot at OSU was when the undercover police infiltrated a student group and shut the gate on Neil Ave. It was this one single act that drew a crowd of students that in turn caused the deployment of more police, and National Guard, and State troops. I don’t think that this one act of closing the gate, would cause such an overreaction from both sides own its own merit. I think that there was much more going on that was not really explained in the film. The fact that during that time period our country was still struggling with race issues, it had just been about two years since Martin Luther King was shot, Women were still not being treated equal. And the Viet Nam war protests were going on all across
