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1 c 0 0 0 1 8 14 6 .. . J National Mobilization Committee leader outside the Conrad Hilton . demonstrations outside the hotel that evening, to try and work out an agreement to avoid violence. According to his testimony, he told Dellinger the demonstrators would be permitted to continue their rally in the band shell in Grant Park or to march north to Lincoln Park, but would under no circumetanccs be permitted to march to the Inter- national Amphiteater where the Convention was being held. Dellinger told him, "We're going to march. We're going to the Amphitheater. I do not have to listen to you. " Dellinger then turned his back and walked away--whereupon the demonstrators suddenly Wooded" into the stre& and demonstration marshals began shouting: "We're through the police lines; we're out into Michigan Avenue; the street is ours. 'I When confronted by police who headed them off as they marched south, they began throwing "bottles, rock?, ash trays, 'boards, balls with nails through them, shoes. every conceivable missile. 'I Incidents of spitting and shouting began; the police "responded"; and fighting broke out that lasied about fifteen minutes +fore the police supcrin- ten4ent was 'able'to regain control'of the group of police officers" . Hotel on 28 August 1968; and had met with David Dellinger during and bring the situation under control. ',, * . * .. The Government's finaL witnds, Albert BauKher,. an assistant director of Chicago's Department of Human Resources, whd was heard on 4 December, testified that several of the defendants expressed willingness to see violence in the streets during the Democratic National Convention. 'Baugher said he met with David Dellinger the day before the Convention opened and warned him that the planned demonstrations could cause riots. He was told by Dellinger, he said, that the demon- strators didn't care about riots; that they were going to march anyway; and that the riots were Chicagotr problem. Abbie Hoffman, he testi- fied, had told him earlier that he was "willing to die in the streets if necessary to open this city up. It - Mr. Baugher, whose testimony was regarded by some observers. as the most damaging during the ten-week-long trial, bad been assigned in the summer of 1968 to help in dealing with the groups.planning demon- strations during the Convention; and in that capacity had met several times with a number of the defendants to discuss applications for per- mits, proposed march routes, etc. At a meeting on 7 August 1968, Mr. Baugher recalled, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin angrily asked why the city was not i ~ r u i n g them permits to march and to sleep in the city's parks, and were told by him that they had already had at least one permit but had surrendered it. He told them it was bis understanding 4 r..