[Leica] chicago in 1968

[frankandaubrey at mindspring.com (Frank Farmer)]

Kyle,

"But I found it very strange standing there thinking 'I almost got my a$$
thrown in jail, but here I am talking to Pat Buchannan instead.'"


Indeed, very surreal.  But also one of the best quotes I've read on the LUG
in at least a week - ; -).

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
Sent: Sep 9, 2004 5:46 PM
To: "'lug@leica-users.org'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] chicago in 1968

Jon Stanton said:

>I was in Chicago in 1968....A student at Roosevelt Univ and the Chicago 
>Conservatory... lifelong resident of Chicago....The student body at 
>Roosevelt was pro active in organizing protest groups for the 
>convention.....

After i got away from ground zero i went back to MSG and found myself in the
relative safety of a conversation with Pat Buchannan who told me a story of
being sent to the 68 Democratic convention by President Nixon. He was
outside and it was getting pretty scary, cops whacking on people with
sticks, and he was wearing a suit, and all the demonstrators thought he was
FBI, which was possibly more dangerous, so he went back to his hotel and
called Nixon who asked him "What are you doing? Are you at the convention?"
And Pat stuck the phone out the window where a crowd of a couple thousand
people was at that very moment chanting "F**K NIXON! F*** NIXON!" 

It was a surreal experience. For me. It might have been for Buchannan too.
But I found it very strange standing there thinking "I almost got my a$$
thrown in jail, but here I am talking to Pat Buchannan instead."

kc
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