I WAS THERE: Barbara Geiger
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- Created Date
- 2008-08-26
- Description
Barbara was sixteen years old and living in west suburban Oak Park, Illinois with her family in 1968. Taking advantage of her parents being out of town, Barbara ventured downtown to volunteer at Senator Eugene McCarthy's headquarters, very close to the site of the riots. Hunger sent her back home to make dinner before the violence erupted. Barbara watched it all unfold on live television and the next day went to survey the aftermath of what she ...
- Creator
Geiger, Barbara
Grannan, Jill
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Conrad Hilton Hotel (Chicago, Ill.)
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Riots
Elections
Politics - Type
- sound
- Format
- Audio file: 36:00 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Geiger, Barbara, Grannan, Jill. I WAS THERE: Barbara Geiger. 2008-08-26. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/42. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Geiger, Barbara, Grannan, Jill, (2008-08-26) I WAS THERE: Barbara Geiger. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/42
- MLA citation style
- Geiger, Barbara, Grannan, Jill. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/42>.