Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second Day of Rage, Chicago was still there. The Weatherman publicity man had left town, and their nicely structured itinerary was shot to hell. Their withdrawal in search of tactics, oddly enough, became an effective tactic by itself. Perhaps the most important element of music is its silences-the rests between notes. The Weathermen continued to wrench the mind of the press by doing nothing...
Word goes out that the Weathermen are holding a press conference at the Chicago Sheraton at 10 Thursday night...
...What is happening in Chicago is much heavier than the past on the white movement. But it's always been much heavier on the Panthers. 21 Panthers have been killed by the pigs. Bobby Hutton...
...newspapermen weren't listening. Mike Royko, a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. had the Weathermen pegged as aristocratic dilettantes. "They spoke a combination of Negro slang, greaser jargon, and Marxist slogans, which is a bit hard to do if you have a Ph.D. in Anthropology and your father is a stockbroker...
...rally Rubin urged the demonstrators to go to Washington on the fifteenth and "surround the Justice Department" in order to stop the conspiracy trial in Chicago. Predicting that, if the trial continues, it will result in a verdict of guilty. Rubin said, "I have no faith... in the American judicial system. This trial will only be stopped in Washington on the fifteenth or in the streets...