[chambers brothers Time Has Come Today plays] Time Has Come Today all Strike Strike Strike young hearts can go their way the students push forward and the Police Push back. Cant put it off another day thats what the cops did. I dont care what others say dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , assassinated in memphis, tennessee. Time has come Today Senator Robert Francis Kennedy was 42 years old. The enemy is no longer closer to victory. Oh, the rules have changed today we demonstrate against the war in vietnam. Have no place to stay the number of men killed last week in vietnam was the highest this summer. They are running an allwhite Political Party in 1968. My tears have come and gone we all need george c. Wallace for our President Of The United States. Hey i have no Home Vote Republican in november. The Peace Groups are demanding permission to march on Convention Hall. These cops here are tough. Theyd kill you with a smile. Time as long as i am mayor of this town, there will be Law And Order i
this time we re going to win! my fellow americans, for a few moments let us look at america. let us listen to america. as we look at america, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame. we hear sirens in the night. we see americans dying on distant battlefields abroad. we see americans hating each other, fighting each other, killing each other at home. and as we see and hear these things, millions of americans cry out in anguish, did we come all this way for this? listen to the answer to those questions. it is another voice. it is a quiet voice in the tumult of the shouting. it is the voice of the great majority of americans, the forgotten americans. the non-shouters.
states has, by reflection upon the integrity and morality of the police of this country made it impossible to convict a criminal, made it impossible to arrest one and today in the cities of our nation you cannot walk the streets of public parks without fear of physical molestation because if you arrest someone today they try the policeman on monday instead of the criminal. george wallace did not win the presidential election in 1968. he did all right better than you might think. five states. he did well enough in 68 he scared the republicans he might take so many of their voters he would cost them their election. with his rhetoric on the supreme court in particular he pushed the republican nominee much further to the right. the republican nominee was richard nixon, who believe it or not started off as a california moderate and even a liberal by california standards but soon enough richard nixon was on the campaign trail doing his best george wallace talking about the forgotten ameri
enough richard nixon was on the campaign trail doing his best george wallace talking about the forgotten americans, non-shouters, the non-demonstrators, not racists or sick that plagues the land. he called them the real voice of america and pitched himself as the law and order candidate and went hard right to the supreme court in particular and said he would appoint supreme court justices to overturn the recent rulings from the warren court about miranda rights and the rest of them and restore the country to a system of law and order with conservative judges. that was part of nixon s southern strategy, part of his plan to peel off george wallace s supporters to make them his own. chief justice earl warren saw what was happening. he saw richard nixon, a front-runner for the presidency was threatening to roll back everything the warren court accomplished, it was becoming a big campaign issue and nixon was
he s here today, and if he were alive today, he d be on that platform speaking for this minority plank. thank you. this is still a volatile convention as you see here with this demonstration on the floor. would stop the bombing now without any preconditions. there s a minority among us represented over in grant park, and let me say the police department, mayor daley, must all be related to job, they ve shown that much faith. they want pot instead of patriotism. and they would substitute riots for reason. as the forces of the counterculture are girding their loins, the battle of the police out in the streets, the civil