I WAS THERE: Ronald Smith
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- Created Date
- 2008-08-27
- Description
Mr. Ronald Smith was on the frontlines of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Working as a beat officer for the Chicago Police Department, personnel from his district were transported to Grant Park for crowd control. Though he did witness a lot of tension and some violence inflicted by officers, he recalled that his captain gave an order to not swing any batons and that his district managed to escape the ordeal with few incidents. According ...
- Creator
Smith, Ronald C
Grannan, Jill
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Riots
Elections
Politics - Location
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Type
- sound
- Format
- Audio file: 53:33 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Smith, Ronald C, Grannan, Jill. I WAS THERE: Ronald Smith. 2008-08-27. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/116. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Smith, Ronald C, Grannan, Jill, (2008-08-27) I WAS THERE: Ronald Smith. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/116
- MLA citation style
- Smith, Ronald C, Grannan, Jill. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/116>.