📰 #TBT - Wednesday, April 22, 1970 - 5️⃣0️⃣ years ago this week.⁠ .⁠ On April 15th, a peaceful march protesting the Ordnance Research Laboratory –– a lab established by request of the Navy in 1945 focused on developing torpedo science and technology –– quickly turned into a riot after then Penn State President Eric Walker called in state police to kick the protesters out from Old Main.⁠ .⁠ One week later, on April 22, frustrated by the sustained police presence on campus, protestors began smashing windows at multiple campus buildings. Five bus loads of police, approximately 175 officers, arrived to surround Old Main and six students and two non-students were arrested.⁠ .⁠ Two university professors accused that several police “threw a student into a bus” and “beat him with their fists.” Judd Arnold, Assistant professor of English, and Chad Hansen, associate professor of English, said they were standing near Schwab, about 25 to 50 feet away when they witnessed the incident.⁠ .⁠ As news ...