I WAS THERE: Donna and Edward Becht
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- Created Date
- 2008-08-28
- Description
Donna Becht was born in Chicago and raised in the Logan Square community area. Edward was also born in Chicago and lived in the West Town community area. At the time of the Democratic National Convention, they lived in Logan Square, and Edward was a Chicago police officer stationed at Lincoln Park Zoo. At 11pm every evening throughout the convention, Edward and the rest of his unit cleared people from Lincoln Park by walking in a single line west...
- Creator
Becht, Donna
Becht, Edward
Long, Tim
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Policemen - Type
- sound
- Format
- Audio file: 51:16 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Becht, Donna, Becht, Edward, Long, Tim. I WAS THERE: Donna and Edward Becht. 2008-08-28. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/11. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Becht, Donna, Becht, Edward, Long, Tim, (2008-08-28) I WAS THERE: Donna and Edward Becht. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/11
- MLA citation style
- Becht, Donna, Becht, Edward, Long, Tim. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/11>.