I got a special education in the counterargument to this film on July 4th, 1970. At the Honor America Day festivities -- which brough almost 1 million people to Washington, DC -- I witnessed several hundred black-clad "protesters" wield flat-black-painted baseball bats, rocks, broken cinderblocks, and CS-gas they had brought (CS is worse than tear gas -- tear gas irritates only mucus-covered surfaces [eyes, noses] while CS will "burn" any exposed skin). The night of the concert, they harassed and injured thousands of people who came just to enjoy the Bob Hope Vietnam-type show on The Mall. We saw what they were doing (I was a marshal), but when The Media turned their cameras to the frescas, they'd stop …
I got a special education in the counterargument to this film on July 4th, 1970. At the Honor America Day festivities -- which brough almost 1 million people to Washington, DC -- I witnessed several hundred black-clad "protesters" wield flat-black-painted baseball bats, rocks, broken cinderblocks, and CS-gas they had brought (CS is worse than tear gas -- tear gas irritates only mucus-covered surfaces [eyes, noses] while CS will "burn" any exposed skin). The night of the concert, they harassed and injured thousands of people who came just to enjoy the Bob Hope Vietnam-type show on The Mall. We saw what they were doing (I was a marshal), but when The Media turned their cameras to the frescas, they'd stop …