Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like millions of others, he was awed by the martial atmosphere which brooded over the city during the convention and the brutality of Chicago's police force. But from his professional point of view--as producer of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report -- Northshield was as much disturbed by the violent...
In the aftermath of the convention, TV newsmen were berated by the police and the public as much as the police had been by the media or the hippies and yippies had been by everyone all along.
The city's defenses were formidable: 12,000 policemen, 6,000 Illinois National Guardsmen and-on stand-by at suburban naval posts-6,000 Army troops equipped with rifles, flamethrowers and bazookas. Even before the convention began, the police were working twelve-hour shifts: at the height of the...
The demonstrators had high hopes of reinforcing their ranks with the disappointed young who had followed Senator Eugene McCarthy-but McCarthy told his followers to stay away. They also hoped for a united front with the nation's black dissidents, but they were markedly unsuccessful in the Chicago slums...
LIFE points out in its current issue that the police districts known to be the most corrupt in Chicago also held the record for some of the worst violence last August. As the Walker report comments, there has been no public condemnation of "these violators of sound police procedures and...