Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A girl comes up to me with some paper towels. Take these, she says, so you can wipe the vaseline off your face when you're in jail. I haven't got vaseline on my face. I am thinking that vaseline is a big petroleum interest, probably makes napalm, and...
Our second bust, the real one, begins to take shape at 2:30 a.m. We hear over WBAI that there are bus loads of TPF (Tactical Police Force, Gestapo) at 156th and 125th and that patrol cars are arriving from all precincts with four helmeted cops per auto. I am...
I take my place with seven others at the front barricade. All along the stairs our people are lined up, ready to hole up in the many lockable-from-within rooms on the three floors above me. We sang "We Shall Not Be Moved" and realize that something is ending...
At about 8:30 a.m. we hear that the cops are coming. One-hundred-seventy-three people jump out the window. (I don't jump because I've been reading Lord Jim.) That leaves 27 of us sitting on the floor, waiting to be arrested. In stroll an inspector and...
The news comes in that Avery and Fayerweather have been liberated. We mark it as such on Grayson's map. At about 8 p.m. we break back into Kirk's inner office, which had been relocked by security when we moved into one room when the cops came in the...