"There were several moments of pretty close topanic among the students," she says. "There wasnowhere for them to go and the police were wadinginto them," trapping demonstrators against thewalls.

Police pushed from one direction, trying tofunnel students out the opposite side. There, agauntlet of officers shoved them into waitingpaddy wagons. Many students, jammed together inthe small space, were simply herded out by policewithout being attacked.

Elizabeth was shoved outside but was unhurt.James was beaten on the head with a billy club butwas uninjured once his bruises healed. Others wereless lucky.

"There was one girl who was in the Cambridgejail with me afterwards who had a pretty severelaceration on her head and later we learned had aconcussion," Elizabeth says.

She says women were treated no differently frommen, and James agrees that many women were beatenby officers.

In the confusion, "one woman was thrown fromthe window and landed on her back," James says."All sorts of people were beaten up prettybadly...A lot of people were hit on the head orhit on the shoulder, arms."

The couple was separated in the attack, andJames says he could not find his future wife untilmuch later in the day.

Students were taken to a police station in EastCambridge, where they were booked for trespassingand slowly released on bail as lawyers arrived.Although Harvard decided not to press furthercharges, an irate Watson, the dean of students,personally charged one graduate student withassault and battery--a decision that provedfateful for James.

While testifying in the graduate student'strial that fall, the district attorney directlyasked James if he had touched Watson. James wasforced to admit that he had.

He says the FBI had placed an informant amongthe group of activists who planned the graduatestudent's defense.

"The only way he would have known that was fromwhat we discussed in those meetings," he says."They had a pretty clear idea about who everyonewas, what everyone had done, and what the D.A.could use against them."

In May 1970, James, too, was tried andconvicted of assault and battery. The judgesentenced him to nine months in jail--the firstjail sentence ever doled out by a Massachusettscourt in an assault case with no injuries, hesays.

James served his full sentence. The day beforeCommencement, the University refused to issue hima diploma; he was only reinstated and allowed tograduate by a Faculty vote that took place whilehe was in jail.

Despite the injustice, he says, his treatmentat least convinced his parents to forgive theirson.

"They were very upset and angry with me, untilthey came to my trial," he says. "And then theywere very angry at Harvard."

The Kilbreths were married in 1971.

Today they say they have no regrets about theirparticipation in the takeover, although they havenot forgiven the University for what happened.

"It seems to me [that] the student movementactually did eventually end the war in Vietnam,and that's a tremendous accomplishment," Jamessays.

"On the other had, it's pretty clear it didn'tchange Harvard," he adds. "Harvard is, from what Ican tell, pretty much the way it's alwaysbeen--smug.