Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrorists" and "revolutionaries," made no attempt to distinguish between radical leaders, yippies, McCarthy partisans and other disaffected youths. "The dual goals of immediate disruption and ultimate destruction were pursued in Chicago against the Government under the guise of a protest against the war in Viet Nam," said the report. The press and TV, it went on, "responded with surprising naiveté and were incredibly misused...
...array of weapons used by the demonstrators. It included a pingpong ball studded with nails, a jar containing two black-widow spiders, bricks, broken bottles and a razor blade. About 100 such weapons were exhibited-hardly an overwhelming arsenal for 10,000 "terrorists." The principal flaw in the Daley report is that while concentrating on the admitted provocations to police by many of the youths, it virtually ignores the savagery of police in attacking demonstrators, newsmen and onlookers alike. The most that Daley would concede is that "some innocent bystanders may have been injured" in one police assault...
...earlier report, the mayor's emergency truth squads confined themselves to interviewing police, National Guardsmen and hotel security officers-the very people they were intent upon exonerating. In probing the 5 a.m. police raid on the McCarthy headquarters in the Conrad Hilton, Daley's "investigators" failed to question any of the volunteers who were supposedly raining dangerous debris onto the heads of cops and passersby. Some objects obviously were thrown from hotel windows; just as obviously, neither the cops nor the National Guard could have known which windows they came from. Daley's supporters have also made...
Free of Questions. The report was only one phase of the mayor's counterattack. He angrily challenged the three major television networks to grant him an hour's prime time to explain himself and his police. "Certainly," said Daley, "the grave implication of these events to the cities of America, which was not portrayed during the convention coverage, should be presented to the American public...
...battle of Chicago warrants a more honest and impartial investigation than Daley's apparat gave it or than it is likely to get from those who have already picked sides. In fact, there is some likelihood that less passionately involved authorities will eventually report what happened. The FBI, a Chicago grand jury and the President's commission on violence, formed after Robert Kennedy's assassination, are all investigating Chicago's bloody week...