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The brisk little Senator, dapper in a different suit each day, was too smart to indulge in any personal histrionics. He simply directed his actors, the witnesses. And like the good showman he is, Bob La Follette provided plenty of comic relief for what was otherwise, grim, gruesome business. The...
With melodramatic swiftness, Senator La Follette shifted from policemen to victims. From a doctor came testimony that total casualties, aside from the dead, were 40 wounded by bullets, some 60 beaten. Seven of the ten dead had been shot in the back. Mrs. Lupe Marshall, a 30-year-old, little...
On the last day of the hearings Senator La Follette had the Caucus Room darkened just before luncheon, showed the Paramount newsreel to a crowd of 700, including delegations of Senators and Congressmen. The audience was on the edge of its chairs. First the entire film was shown. On the...
Senator La Follette made no attempt to use the film as evidence that the police fired without provocation, as neither he nor anyone else has ever seriously contended. Senator La Follette's thesis was that the provocations did not justify the subsequent brutality. The Paramount cameraman, Orlando Lippert, testified...
As soon as the La Follette Committee had shown the film, Paramount released it for public exhibition, explaining that strike emotions had now cooled enough. Though the picture was promptly banned in Chicago by the police censor, the public release was. if anything, more anti-climactic than the showing by...