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The sixties youth movement was born on May 13, 1960, when hundreds of demonstrators, most of them UC Berkeley students, began a two-day protest at San Francisco’s City Hall. The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) had convened a series of hearings there, and students were chagrined to learn that they were barred from the proceedings. A riot broke out as police turned firehoses on the protesters, the intense pressure forcing them down the building’s imposing marble stairway. Police clubbed protesters and made sixty-one arrests, including more than thirty students. “Black Friday,” ...more
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
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