All things sixties
Story in the Times about the reunion of the Chicago police from 1968. For more on Chicago 68, see No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968 by John Schultz.
PBS has been rerunning a Chicago 10 documentary on Independent Lens. It has some great archival footage combined with animated courtroom scenes.
NPR has a story on the protest of the Miss America pageant in 1968 that sparked the women’s liberation movement and started the bra-burning myth. Click here to listen to the story.
Good story with some chilling audio from the streets. Click here to listen.
Peter Marcuse (son of Herbert) writes a defense of the sixties in In These Times.