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And here I am in 2020, watching it all again live on TV.
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The whole world was, and still is, watching.
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As a Vietnamese, my deepest gratitude for your selfless protests which helped ending the war earlier.
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This gave me the shivers.  I was there and it all came back. Wow.  What have we learned in 50 years ? Let's try peace.
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brave. that older lady in the pink... thank you Grand Mother
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I thought i would just watch it without too much emotion, but idk why as soon as the video startes playing i felt a strong urge to cry
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Thank you for this video. My best friend who passed away a couple of weeks ago was at the convention protest.
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They showed this to us in grade school in the early 90s in the Chicago suburbs
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America hasn't learned a goddamn thing in 50 years.
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i was in the Army,18 and home on leave from overseas,staying at my Mothers place and watched this on TV,i could not believe it..i was overseas when Bobby Kennedy and MLK were killed,helluva year that was
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Democracy in action in the "greatest nation on earth".
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My daughter and I are going and I can't see this replicating itself like in Daileys Chicago. We are brings a message of peace and a message of change. I can't see the US wanting to looking foolish to the rest of the world. I was 9 years old in 1968 and watched the whole thing with my parents. I learned your.
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The whole point was that Americans were attacking other Americans who were within their rights to assemble peacefully. The majority who were there were not hippies as every one thinks. The majority were librarians, ministers, mothers and even children. The so called hippies were a small number. My 45 year old uncle went there to demonstrate against America's policy in Vietnam and he was no hippy. He got clubbed and arrested for exercising his right to freedom of speech.. 
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I was 18, I cried then. And; I still cry today
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For those of us old enough to remember Chicago 1968, what's happening in Ferguson, MO right now is eerily similar. Forty-six years later, have we not made any progress. Ferguson police authorities, remember - the whole world is watching you too! How do you want to be viewed 46 years from now?
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Here we go, watching it again in 2021
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That is some world class ass kicking. The cops were swinging their nightsticks like a pro ball player.
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You've got to admit, the cops in those days were in better shape than the ones today.
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Ahhh ... the more things change, the more they stay the same. USA 2020.
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We have the constitutional right to protest in this country. The whole world is watching.
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In 1989 the Chinese authorities thought: If the US authority could do it 21 years ago so can we do it now, only more cruel.
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I recall going down town with my mom and her friends... Not really understanding why the police were so mad at these peaceful people (protesting convention, war ect...) Yet it stayed with me all these years. The confusion~what seemed like war to me, as my uncle is in Vietnam. To see things in Chicago that were called rally & I'd get excited, thought PEACE. Cops and authorities did , from my lil girl view, made it harder & scary. Especially knowing some of these peace filled people as a kid. As the B.S. which was happening then, has escalated out of mans hands. God be with us all 🙏 God bless you Abbie Hoffman #ourcountry #saveourkids #bringhometroops #preservepeace #freedomrings #peace #stopsupportingwar #charitybeginsathome #worldpeace #lovelife #demonseed #freeleonardpeltir #respectlife #mypix
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Unfortunately history has repeated itself. This has been happening in North Dakota for months and it happened at Occupy Wall St
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They beat the crap out of us, and that's a fact. My dad was so mad at me for going there. lol
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People should not be afraid of their government. Government should be afraid of their people.
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we are we at occupy use and love this chant
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The War Profiteers decided to end the Vietnam War in 1973 by ending the military draft to defuse the protests and then "Vietnamizing" the war sealing the fate of South Vietnam which ended in a spectacle of mad horror in June 1975. It was all fought over money.
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awesome. my 7th grade history went to this and he also said they beat they crap out of him, and he specifically disobeyed his father because he had told him not to go.
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Folks who go up against cops just don't understand that the cops are more than willing to give them an intimate introduction to their friend William Club.
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My dad was there at the time he was 16 and lived on 97th Springfield EVERGREEN PARK
They were warned not to block streets and to leave parks when they closed, they thought they were above that, guess not
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Wow full circle
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The whole world is watching, that reminds me of The Trial of the Chicago 7
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That one cop @ 2.00.. Nothing human about that. That is animal tactics. One should fight those tactics with those tactics. All power to the people. No matter what your politics.
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Somehow, Chicago's (the legendary jazz rock band) 1969 protest song "Prologue, August 29, 1968/Someday (August 29, 1968)" brought me here.
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In the words of Rob Tyner of MC5, "it was a police riot."
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@CrystVeno Your comment moved me to tears. Having seen the trajectory of American history since I became involved in the anti-war movement in 1968, I often wonder if we cried and bled and struggled for nothing. Having heard you, I no longer believe it.
Today is the the same as old same old. 6/23/2020 😢
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The whole world is watching... almost 60 years later.
Man, that was pretty tough to watch. But to be honest, things could've gone even worse, but that was still pretty rough
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