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C CONFIDENTIAL © WY 100-161445 VI, TELEVISION INTERVIEW On April 26, 1969, the subject was interviewed by ALLEN DOUGLAS on the Allen Douglas Show, Keiser Broadcasting Company, Channel 61, Cleveland, Ohio. During this interview, the subject stated in part as follows: "Chicago, my favorite city. There are eight of us who are charged with conspiracy to cross the state line to select a pig, and each of us can do about ten years on that charge. And they put up eight cops to serve as like scapegoats for Mayor Daly and the other people that made the decisions to beat the hell out of us. So, I wore the shirt as sort of an empathetic gesture, gesture towards them. We even offered them our legal services which is quite good. "Well, I'm having a good time, and, uh, trying to correct a system that I believe is basically evil, and, uh, trying to live out an authentic life and not alienate it to my work and my play and my love and for what I'm fighting for. "Wall, suppose it's not so much our words, it's our actions. Well, we feel for example, what we did in Chicago was morally justified, giving the closed political system as 4t exists in this country, and there is no way of reforming that system from within so the fight has to be taken out into the streets. It was our intention when we went to Chicazo to have our Festival of Life up in Lincoln Park, which is about ten niles away from the convention hall, and, lo and behold, the Chicago authorities wouldn't let us sleep in that park, even though people have been sleeping there for hundreds of years and wouldn't let us hold our alternative festival because that obviously was viewed by them as a threat to their concept of law and order, the concept of power. And so it was necessary for us to learn how to defend ourselves in the streets because that's where we were driven every night, and so we ran back. And we are thankful to the Chicago police for teaching us that flower children have to grow thorns if they are to live. | 6S CONFIDANTIAL SR, SE ee ves “ae MS ea tenia etme See eatin s adhd edetel ah a