FTV 118 - A Night in Chicago: 1968 DNC
This week on From the Vault, we will listen to more from our 1968 Revolution Rewind Preservation and Access Initiative and the volatile confrontations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. As the stage is set and the nation looks toward the Democrats convening in Denver and the Republicans gathering in St. Paul, the activist, police, politicians, organizers, and journalists here and abroad are taking note of the relevance of the DNC events of 1968. This week, the New York Times reported on the Denver police bracing for the convention protesters and the judge who faced the ACLU and a coalition of protest groups led by “Recreate 68″ seeking a ruling on easing the strict security provisions. The Black Star News ran a new interview with Black Panther Party founder Bobby Seale about 1968 an the ensuing Chicago 8 trial. And the Pacifica Radio Archives is getting noticed, too.
Columnist Christopher Batement wrote in his piece, “Reliving the 1968 Democratic National Convention” highlighting the preservation project that allowed him to hear the “remarkable immediacy” in which Pacifica brought the events to the listener. Although you may have heard excerpts of this program on Pacifica Radio as recently as a few weeks ago, here we present it for the first time in many years in its entirety. Introducing the award-winning documentary, A Night in Chicago is Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman.
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