North and Clark » Riot http://northandclark.net Interviews, Chicago, and Whatever else We Want Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:24:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Chaos: How One Chicago Cop Survived the Riots of 1968 http://northandclark.net/2009/08/chaos-how-one-chicago-cop-survived-the-riots-of-1968/ http://northandclark.net/2009/08/chaos-how-one-chicago-cop-survived-the-riots-of-1968/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:43:00 +0000 shbh http://northandclark.net/?p=88

1968 saw the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In Chicago 1968 was the year of The Democratic Convention. Officer Wayne Wiberg was there and he gives us the rare perspective of a policeman in the middle of a “police riot.”

Photo by: Oscar Arriola
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“They were up on the stage in the middle of the show and they were angry.”
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