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CONFIDENT RE: DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING AFFEARANCE OF VICE-PRESIDENT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, ETC. No incidents were observed in the vicinity of West kSth Street and Lorain Avenue, and a representative of the Cleveland Police Department advised that his department made no arrests at that location. During the noon period on July 2, 1968, the Vice- President returned to the Cleveland-Sheraton Hotel on Cleveland's Public Square. At 11:45 AM om July 2, 1968, Special Agents of the FBI observed a group of demonstrators gathering on Superior Avenue adjacent to the northwest quadrant .of Public Square. — At approximately 12:00 noon the entire group, numbering an estimated two hundred twenty-five (225) persons, marched — across Superior Avenue and initiated a picket line in front of the Superior Avenue entrance to the Cleveland-Sheraton Hotel. Most of the demonstrators carried placards which were critical of the Vice-President, the role of the United States in Vietnam, the poverty program and Fresident LYNDON B. JOHNSON. One group of three demonstrators, including CAROL MC ELDOWNEY, carried a paper banner approximately 10 feet in length which bore the following inscription: "HHH Equals War, Poverty and Bullshit. A letter from the Ohio Peace Action Council (OFAC), 66 East 15th Street, Columbus, Ohio, which was widely disseminated in February, 1968, listed CAROL MC ELDOWNEY as one of the speakers available through the OPAC, The letter described MC ELDOWNEY as a recent visitor to North Vietnam and as a "former national officer of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). A characterization of the SDS is contained in the Appendix section of this memorandum. During the demonstration leaflets captioned "Warmakers Don't Make Good Presidents" were distributed to passing pedestrians. A verbatim transcript of one of these leaflets is set forth below: "SUBURBARITES AND INNER CITY VOTERS, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, STUDENTS, FROFESSORS, WOMEN IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE: UNITE AGAINST THE WAR AND ITS SUPPORTERS IN HIGH PLACES--ESPECIALLY HUBERT HORATIO HUMPHREY, THE -5- CONMMENTTIAL