Donald Hirsch
I remember these events:
- Political awakening with Eugene
McCarthy in the neighborhood and John Eaton school "elections" (Humphrey
defeated Nixon.)
- Our family putting up people
from the poor people's campaign, and setting up a Kool-Aid stand on 34th Place
with Anand, to raise money for it. Seeing the shacks at Resurrection City by the Reflecting
Pool.
- People going to school with
transistor radios the day Robert Kennedy was shot.
- Writing poems in school the day
Martin Luther King was shot.
- Two or three years later, those
huge anti-war demonstrations on the Mall.
Here is a link to the BBC 1968 web site, which has a lot of interesting material.
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