Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Speaking of Chicago, and the people who think that the poor police were only responding appropriately - Can you say Kerner Commission Report? ;-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Farmer Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:32 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] chicago in 1968 Kyle, "But I found it very strange standing there thinking 'I almost got my a$$ thrown in jail, but here I am talking to Pat Buchannan instead.'" Indeed, very surreal. But also one of the best quotes I've read on the LUG in at least a week - ; -). Frank -----Original Message----- From: Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu> Sent: Sep 9, 2004 5:46 PM To: "'lug@leica-users.org'" <lug@leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] chicago in 1968 Jon Stanton said: >I was in Chicago in 1968....A student at Roosevelt Univ and the Chicago >Conservatory... lifelong resident of Chicago....The student body at >Roosevelt was pro active in organizing protest groups for the >convention..... After i got away from ground zero i went back to MSG and found myself in the relative safety of a conversation with Pat Buchannan who told me a story of being sent to the 68 Democratic convention by President Nixon. He was outside and it was getting pretty scary, cops whacking on people with sticks, and he was wearing a suit, and all the demonstrators thought he was FBI, which was possibly more dangerous, so he went back to his hotel and called Nixon who asked him "What are you doing? Are you at the convention?" And Pat stuck the phone out the window where a crowd of a couple thousand people was at that very moment chanting "F**K NIXON! F*** NIXON!" It was a surreal experience. For me. It might have been for Buchannan too. But I found it very strange standing there thinking "I almost got my a$$ thrown in jail, but here I am talking to Pat Buchannan instead." kc _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information