McCARTHY KILLED ON CONVENTION floor
MCCARTHY KILLED ON convention floor Apparent Assassin Escapes in Turmoil Following Gunshots. Unruh Blames "Turn-the-Other-Cheek" Methods of Mayor Daley and Chicago Police. Chicago, Aug....
...And I am not going to have anyone accuse Chicago of trying to turn a party convention into a concentration camp.' But Gov...
...He must have had the gun wrapped up in the newspaper he was carrying...
...It has become truistic that Humphrey will receive essentially a block vote from the colored electorate...
...How did it happen that it was the Texas delegation repeat, Texas that suddenly started the stretch drive for Senator McCarthy's rival...
...Our apprehension is based in part on the Wallace support that approaches unanimity among the less sophisticated and large element of our electorate...
...The probability of a Humphrey victory, to be wrought from the paradoxical elements of the Southern electorate, seems very real...
...Shapiro and the President are no less at fault for their refusal to call up the National Guard and enough federal troops to ensure that adequate means would be at hand to deal with the disorders which all informed observers knew were certain to be attempted in both the streets and the convention hall...
...Down here, George Wallace is generally conceded the states of Alabama and Mississippi...
...Horror varying in degree according to the intensity of one's commitment to our republican form of government grips the intellect and emotions of many responsible Southerners when viewing the forthcoming election...
...Further agreement finds Richard Nixon running well, but not as well as Barry tion, the New York Times declares: "Whatever the detailed facts about this new tragedy, Mayor Daley, Gov...
...29 The inconspicuous, sandyhaired man of medium height who, according to dozens of nearby witnesses, fired two shots in rapid succession from a sawed-off shotgun, got to the convention floor by posing as an alternate in the huge New York delegation...
...our apprehension is further based on the broad acceptance of the Wallace candidacy by the substantial portion of the somewhat more responsible sector of the local electorate...
...His work has taken him on extensive travels through the South where his keen political eye was always open...
...It is also generally agreed that Hubert Humphrey will not carry any of the Southern states...
...Shapiro and President Johnson must bear the moral responsibility...
...Our horror arises from the growing conviction that Hubert Humphrey will receive a plurality of the popular vote in every Southern state (other than Alabama and Mississippi), including bellwether states such as Florida, Texas and Virginia...
...Mr...
...I couldn't pay him too much notice because we were so short-handed on account of we had to send most of the convention guards to help in the trouble over in the black section that started when those Yippiepeaceniks marched there from Grant Park...
...Mark Lane, well known for his exposure of the holes in the Warren Commission report, was asked to comment...
...Goldwater in 1964...
...The Mayor does so for his unrealistic decision against tight security measures for convention week, because according to his statement on 'Face the Nation' last week, 'I trust the good will of all our citizens, young and old, black and white, if they are given the chance to express their opinions freely...
...In an editorial prepared for this morning's ediJerry Gerde, an alumnus of the Saturday Evening Club, is a leading young lawyer in Bay County, Florida...
...Warner Matson of MIT, noted authority on mob psychology, stated to the Associated Press: "What did the Chicago police expect when they turned the downtown streets over to the New Left operators, and let them assemble a mob and march toward the International Amphitheatre by way of the ghetto...
...Reprinted from the NATIONAL REVIEW BULLETIN by special permission of NATIONAL REVIEW...
...Asked to comment on the rioting, bloodshed, looting and arson that formed the background of the assassination, Prof...
...The questions that urgently require investigation are, obviously: Who ordered Mayor Daby and his police to let agitators and criminals run loose in Chicago during convention week, after what happened in Dallas, Memphis, and Los Angeles...
...You've got to stop an operation of that kind before it swells to a tidal wave...
...These are the questions, but my prediction is that the FBI and CIA are not going to allow us to get the answers...
...He waved what looked like a delegate's credential," testified a guard assigned to Gate 9, "so I naturally let him through...
...this is now a sizable portion of the voters, amount Continued on Page 9 NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES by Jerky Gerde Page 3...
...What do the Chicago police think they are being paid for...
...Once again the pattern is repeated," he stated...
Vol. 2 • October 1968 • No. 2
