VLVL2 today in history

[pynchonoid]

April 15, 2004

[...]   1967: First mass draft card burning as 400,000
march in New York City and 80,000 in San Francisco
opposing Vietnam War.

1968: With the Democratic National Convention months
away, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley publicly
criticizes Superintendent of Police James Conlisk's
cautious handling of the riots that followed King's
assassination. Daley said he was giving the police
specific instructions "to shoot to kill any arsonist
and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." 

[...] 1970: Police tear-gas anti-war protesters
staffing flaming barricades which had been set up to
block 13th Ave. access to the University of Oregon in
Eugene.

1974: Kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst is filmed
participating in the robbery of a Bank of America
branch in Sacramento, California.

1980: Marxist existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre dies,
Paris.  [...] 

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History -- April
<http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16698#15>




	
		
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