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tularetom

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3. I was in Sproul Plaza on October 1, 1964

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 4, 2014, 01:52 PM

Oct 2014

On my way to get something to eat on Telegraph Avenue. I saw the large crowd of people and wondered what was going on. I wasn't really into protest much back in the day, I had a wife and a one year old daughter, and two jobs to help pay my through Cal.

It was either a Thursday or Friday and I didn't find out what it was all about until the following monday. Engineering students were always the last to learn about those things.

One thing about free speech protests. The spelling on the protest signs is a hell of a lot better what you see at than the Tea Party, 2nd Amendment, anti abortion protests. The protesters seem to be a lot thinner as well.

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