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To: Road Walker who wrote (5753)	1/10/2008 4:24:34 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) of 149317

In the summer of 1968 I watched the police action from the roof of the Field Museum where the National Guard had set up their headquarters. I was 19 at the time, a long haired student at UIC (Harvard on Halsted), working at a summer job at the museum. The opening event, as seen from my vantage point, was a line of protesters charging a police line in Grant Park. I have a vivid memory of hearing the National Guard commander looking at the scene and saying, "Holy Shit!" Donald Rumsfeld, who was staying at the Hilton, was on the phone reporting on the protests to Richard Nixon when the riot started and got gassed when the tear gas wafted up to his room. Working my way home that night on the CTA was a bit of challenge. Interesting times. Earlier that year, I almost (and I mean almost) got caught on the west side when it went up in flames after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. The long departed (at least from SI) Raymond Duray was a student at Loyola that spring. He once told me that one of his greatest regrets was missing the Democratic convention. I told him that it would have made for an interesting trivia question: Which SI member watched which SI member being beaten by the Chicago police?

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