I WAS THERE: Michael Koetting

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Collection:: Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
Title:: I WAS THERE: Michael Koetting
Creator:: Koetting, Michael
Grannan, Jill
Publisher:: Chicago, Ill. : Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum
Date of Original:: 2008-08-29
Subject:: Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history
Interviews
Riots
Elections
Political science
Location:: United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Loop, 41.88407, -87.6333
United States, Missouri, City of Saint Louis, St. Louis, 38.62727, -90.19789
Medium:: oral histories (literary works)
Type:: Sound
Text
StillImage
Format:: audio/mpeg
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Description:: Michael, at age twenty-one, traveled with a group of friends from St. Louis, Missouri to Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention. He was an editor at his college newspaper and felt "sheer curiosity" to witness what was going to happen. He made his way through Grant Park and ended up outside the Blackstone Hotel, arguing with an alternate convention delegate from New Jersey. Michael described the chaos of the crowd at that corner. While trying to protect a friend from injury, he was struck on the head during a surge of police activity. After receiving stitches, he watched some of the action from a distance in the Loop before heading home the next day.
Metadata URL:: http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/74
IIIF manifest:: https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:74/manifest.json
Language:: eng
Additional Rights Information:: © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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Extent:: Audio file: 42:34 minutes
Original Collection:: Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
I WAS THERE: The 1968 Democratic National Convention Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum
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