Word: beavers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the "official patriots" dumped the last crate of tea into the harbor, the People's Bicentennial boats emerged from their hiding spot under the Congress St. bridge and charged the 18th century replica of the British ship "Beaver...
...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...