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MoonRiver

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3. I thought it was a great movie, but

Reply to Le Roi de Pot (Original post)

Sun Oct 18, 2020, 11:30 AM

Oct 2020

my husband was literally there, in front of the restaurant where the police violence took place. He said things were a lot different from what the movie presented. According to him, there were no windows on that level of the restaurant, which is why he and other protesters sought refuge inside. He saw several protesters being viciously beaten by police, and the horror is still with him.

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Watch "The Trial of the Chicago 7" on Netflix .. [View all] Le Roi de Pot Oct 2020 OP

It was fantastic! Satch59 Oct 2020 #1

We never left "that direction". Voltaire2 Oct 2020 #2

+1 jalan48 Oct 2020 #7

Great post malaise Oct 2020 #16

I thought it was a great movie, but MoonRiver Oct 2020 #3

hmmm - I was there too, but I have a different recollection, plus there is a photograph. Voltaire2 Oct 2020 #8

I wasn't there, but perhaps his perspective was different. MoonRiver Oct 2020 #9

it was odd seeing their re-creation of events Voltaire2 Oct 2020 #11

Your version is correct. former9thward Oct 2020 #14

I wasn't even born then.. Le Roi de Pot Oct 2020 #10

we retired beachbumbob Oct 2020 #4

Tom Hayden, a political giant...as well as Abby Hoffman and Bobby Seale.. asiliveandbreathe Oct 2020 #5

Thanks for the suggestion! smirkymonkey Oct 2020 #6

I did! I can't believe how the issues of those days are still with us. ancianita Oct 2020 #12

At the time of his death Hoffman was not "stalked, hunted, on the run, he went underground" former9thward Oct 2020 #13

No, not at that exact time. Sure, they laid off him for awhile to manipulate him into surfacing. ancianita Oct 2020 #17

My first "taste" of tear gas Mossfern Oct 2020 #15