Some 3,000 anti-war demonstrators clashed with police and Illinois National Guardsmen on Aug. 28, 1968, near the convention. Police clubbed demonstrators and conducted mass arrests. An investigative commission later described the clash as a “police riot.” Richard Schultz remembers exactly where he was on the evening of Aug. 28, 1968. Along with colleagues from the U.S. Attorney’s office, he was at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo, watching a riot stemming from the Democratic National Convention. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.
Davis and four co-defendants Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot during the Chicago Seven trial in 1969 and 1970. A federal appeals court overturned the convictions, citing errors by U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman.
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some 5,500 illinois national guardsmen, 2,000 fbi, secret service and other federal agents, and the 11,000-man chicago police force. we re concerned about the buildup of force. anything that s built up like this is liable to be used. you re a girl, are you afraid of violence that may occur? there will be violence, yes, no doubt about that. i m not afraid of it. about 500 students, hippies, yippies, radicals, activists, mccarthy kids, and other demonstrators marched four miles to the hotels housing the democratic convention delegates. they stayed on the sidewalks. they stopped for traffic signals and they did not try to cross police lines. you re here to work for a living, you wouldn t be out here. as the protesters marched back toward lincoln park, they clashed with police. we were told that we would have to leave the park at 11:00 at night.
how do you feel about the anti-war demonstrators? i don t like them. i don t like them one bit. there s no reason for them. they accomplish nothing. the police, largely working class people, who d come up the hard way, see these privileged white students and have to wonder what do they have to be angry about? and many of those police officers, themselves, identified with the soldiers coming back from the war in vietnam. we re coming not because our fight is with policemen or national guard troops, our fight is with the policies of this administration. on this eve of the beginning of the 35th democratic national convention, chicago is nearly security-tight. the police, several thousand of them, are now deployed. u.s. army troops began arriving in chicago in substantial numbers this morning. at least 50 planeloads but they will be available to reinforce some 5,500 illinois national guardsmen, 2,000 fbi, secret service and other federal agents, and the 11,000-man chicago polic
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