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Mossfern

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15. My first "taste" of tear gas

Reply to Le Roi de Pot (Original post)

Sun Oct 18, 2020, 07:13 PM

Oct 2020

during a demonstration in D.C.

I was also at the Grand Central Station Yip-in.
I volunteered for Eugene McCarthy's campaign even though I was not able to vote.
The voting age then was 21 and I was 20.

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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