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Despite sleet and freezing drizzle, some 10,000 spectators watched at Griffin's Wharf while history buffs crept aboard the 97-ft. brigantine Beaver II, a replica of one of the three ships sacked in 1773. Like the 18th century patriots, the raiders masqueraded as Indians...
...what followed was not. While the voice on the loudspeaker called out instructions, one of the People's Bicentennial boats circled the harbor with a large papier mache caricature of Nixon as its passenger. The voice on the loudspeaker worked the crowd expertly. Should Nixon be taken to the Beaver and hung? The crowd said yes. Should Nixon be impeached? The crowd said...
...owners of the boat, however, said no. As it became apparent that the demonstrators intended to hang Nixon from the "Beaver's" mast, George Davis approached a member of the People's Bicentennial and asked him to keep the caricature away from the boat...
...Davis kept direct political activity from his boat, he could not kept off the docks. And he made no effort to remove the very political signs hung by the demonstrators from the mast of the "Beaver...
...crowd supplemented the signs. One demonstrator leaned over the edge of the dock, hung precariously for a few moments, and yelled "Shoot the 'Beaver...