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Rugo was beaten on a hot and humid spring evening during spring reading period 35 years ago. That night, police arrested 28 Harvard students in what has become known as the Pogo Riot, fought in the name of the famous 'possum from Okeefenokee Swamp in Florida who was eliciting a groundswell of grassroots support--in Harvard Square, at least-for election to the presidency of the United States of America...
...Larry masterminded the Pogo Riot," Lukas says. Savadove, it turns out, picked Kelly up at the airport, but took him for a pit stop at at a bar before driving on to Cambridge...
...townies were spoiling for a fight," he says. He remembers bailing himself out that night with his $25 weekly allowance, and says the one effect the Pogo Riot has had on his life is that his arrest record delayed his being drafted into the Korean...
...What the [riot] revealed," says Ellsberg, "was the rage, envy and fury on the part of the police, a hatred for Harvard boys, a chance to beat the shit out of them...
When the protesters marched down palm-lined Jen-Ai Road toward the Presidential Office Building, they discovered that rows of riot police had sealed the routes with barbed-wire barricades and water cannon. White-helmeted marshals among the marchers moved quickly to keep order. The demonstrators settled for more speeches and sang the opposition's rallying song, United for Taiwan. The police stayed back but blasted martial music from their own sound trucks to drown out the protesters...