Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Daley produced his own version of Chicago--"The Strategy of Confrontation" -- starring his police department, and in it charged that the news media "responded with surprising naivete and were incredibly misused." Letters from angry citizens--almost unanimously critical of the networks--poured into the studios of NBC and CBS, and into the office of the FCC as well, prompting an investigation of the major networks' coverage...
...amphitheatre consisted of long, uninterrupted film sequences shot understandably when there was something happening -- when the clashes between police and protesters reached their height. The same films were aired over and over again whenever Chet or David referred back to the events, as after Senator Ribicoff blasted Mayor Daley for running a police state. Consequently, both the intensity and the frequency of the clashes may have seemed greater than they were...
...report also places the start of the confrontation considerably earlier than the convention week-there had been riots in Chicago's black ghettos in 1966 and again in April 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King. Mayor Daley's own riot-study committee (Daniel Walker was No. 2 man) cited the restraint practiced by the police as a major factor in keeping the April riots from becoming even "more violent and widespread." But after April 1968, Daley criticized his police for their restraint and urged them to shoot to kill arsonists and maim looters. Says the report...
Diabolical Threats. The report makes clear that Mayor Richard Daley and his police and military aides appeared to accept at face value all of the fiery statements made by the demonstration leaders. Chicago's newspapers repeatedly listed diabolical threats aimed at the city, ranging from burning Chicago down by flooding the sewers with gasoline, to dumping LSD in the water supply, to having 10,000 nude bodies float on Lake Michigan. Also widely accepted was the boast that from 100,000 to 200,000 demonstrators would descend on Chicago. Actually, the report estimates, only about 5,000 demonstrators came...
...yippies, who seem to have been the most baffling to Chicago authorities. The yippies appeared to be, in Norman Mailer's approving term, largely "existential," meaning that they lacked any clear-cut ideology or program. Yippies accept no leaders, not even their own, and Daley and his men could scarcely make much sense of yippie manifestos like that of Abbie Hoffman, who saw the movement as "new phenomena, a new thing on the American scene. Why? That's our question. Our slogan is Why? You know as long as we can make up a story about it that...