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By BAADASSSSS

ChicagoChicago 10
Directed Brett Morgen
Documentary
Paramount Home Entertainment
Release Date: August 26, 2008

“A Democratic Convention is about to begin in a police state. There just doesn’t seem to be any other way to say it.” – Walter Cronkite

“Many of us may fight and die here. We recognize this as the vision of the founders of this nation. We recognize that we are America. We recognize that we are free men. Political pigs, your days are numbered. We are the Second American Revolution. We are winning. Yippie.” – Abbie Hoffman

It was one of the saddest and most sobering moments in American history. At the height of the Vietnam War with the nation sharply divided for the first time since the Civil War, the U.S. was going through a period of great social and political upheaval. The Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Rights Movement were going full force. President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, had presided over the escalation of the burgeoning conflict in Vietnam into a full-blown war and was ramping up the draft to the point where no man was safe from conscription.

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