I WAS THERE: Donna Berlinger Mercier

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Collection:: Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
Title:: I WAS THERE: Donna Berlinger Mercier
Creator:: Mercier, Donna Berlinger
Long, Tim
Publisher:: Chicago, Ill. : Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum
Date of Original:: 2008-08-28
Subject:: International Amphitheatre (Chicago, Ill.)
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, Skokie, 42.03336, -87.73339
Medium:: oral histories (literary works)
Type:: Sound
Text
StillImage
Format:: audio/mpeg
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Description:: Donna Berlinger Mercier was born in Chicago at Grant Hospital and raised in north suburban Skokie, Illinois. When she was sixteen years old, she got a job with the Andy Frain usher service and worked for the company throughout college. At nineteen, she became an "usherette" at the Democratic National Convention and was assigned to stand in front of the main podium. Her role was to keep order on the floor, and she was the "benign front" that was to tell the appropriate undercover personnel if anything was going wrong. Throughout the entire convention, she was completely unaware of the riots going on in the city.
Metadata URL:: http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/84
IIIF manifest:: https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:84/manifest.json
Language:: eng
Additional Rights Information:: © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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Extent:: Audio file: 19:22 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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