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Apr 21, 2010 · Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 4, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 25 Keeping the Cops From Rioting by Nat Hentoff...
Apr 21, 2010 · Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 4, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 25 Keeping the Cops From Rioting by Nat Hentoff As Don McNeill’s story in last week’s Voice made clear — much, much clearer than any of the writing in the Times on the event — members of the police […]
Apr 20, 2010 · The Grand Central Riot: Yippies Meet the Man. by Don McNeill. All the brass was watching Chief Inspector Sanford Garelik, shielded by a cluster of Tactical Patrol Force heavies, leaned against...
- The Yippies Stage A Counter-Convention
- Tensions Paved The Way to Violent Protests
- The Chicago Eight Go to Trial
Rubin proposed organizing a counter-convention called the “Festival of Life” to be held in a nearby park. There would be music, marijuana and crowds of beautifully freaky young people laughing down the convention of death. They’d nominate a pig for president, dance through the streets of Chicago and grab media attention from the meaningless spectac...
But a lot changed between January and August. In March, President Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not be running for reelection. Then came the shocking murders of King and RFK, the latter widely considered the frontrunner for winning the Democratic nomination. In Vietnam, the Tet Offensive(January-September 1968) brought high casualties that...
But the true watershed moment for the Yippies was yet to come. Six months after the convention, Hoffman, Rubin and six other men—from the SDS, Black Panthers and other groups—were arrested and charged with conspiracy to incite a riot, obstructing police officers during a civil disorder and other crimes. Their trial, known as the Chicago Eight (late...
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Oct 6, 2020 · Inside A Yip-In. All the brass was watching. Chief Inspector Sanford Garelik, shielded by a cluster of Tactical Patrol Force heavies, leaned against the wall in the 42nd Street entrance to...
Aug 28, 2017 · True to their name, on Friday March 22, 1968, the Yippies filed into Grand Central Station for what might be the most prickly, New York response to the Human Be-In imaginable. Peacefully,...
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Nov 2, 2018 · He was determined to combat recreational drug use and redevelop much-loved areas of the city. So, the stage was set; for the five years, it was yippies and hippies versus the city government, the police and the so-called good citizens of Vancouver. Hippies settled where the rent was cheap.
