What Trees Do They Plant?
What Trees Do They Plant?
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE OVERALL VISUAL QUALITY OF THIS PROGRAM IS POOR. IT IS INHERENT TO THE ORIGINAL PROGRAM. THUS, MASTERING WILL NOT PRODUCE BETTER QUALITY. "What Trees Do They Plant? Strategy of a Confrontation" A WTTG-5 Washington, DC Special Report on the Chicago Riots. Program produced by the City of Chicago and the Daley Administration in response to what it felt was "unbalanced" media coverage of the Convention and riots - introduced as "Chicago's side of the story".
What Trees Do They Plant?
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What Trees Do They Plant?
Metromedia News reporter John Corporon introduces program; says that "the public has a right to hear Chicago's point of view" in regards to the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
What Trees Do They Plant?
Card stating that the program was furnished by the City of Chicago.
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Unidentified young Caucasian man with bandaged head standing on stump and speaking to small crowd in Chicago: "We're talking about a campaign of building in the United States, in 1968, a national liberation front."
What Trees Do They Plant?
Crowd of anti-war protestors on the sidewalk. They chant. Opening credits roll over.
What Trees Do They Plant?
Anti-war protesters throwing things at police in Grant Park; tear gas is dispensed.
What Trees Do They Plant?
Chicago police and deployed National Guard patrolling streets, night. TLSs anti-war protesters marching on sidewalk, en route to Convention Hall. TLS Chicago police officers beating protesters with nightsticks (billy clubs).
What Trees Do They Plant?
Title Card over image of protesters marching at night, with audio of chanting "Ho-Ho, Ho Chi Minh" (their faces are darkened and obscured).