Chicago — So your brother's bound and gagged...

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9. I watched the convention gavel to gavel.

Saw the folds in the signs that were smuggled in under our delegates' shirts.

Saw Dan Rather beaten to the ground. And, late that night, heard Walter Cronkite tell a sleeping America what he thought of the thugs who did it.

Years later I worked in a film library and saw a fraction of the footage that was never broadcast. I saw Eugene McCarthy running out into a hotel hall calling for medical help for injured protesters in his suite.