I WAS THERE: Michael Koetting
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- Created Date
- 2008-08-29
- Description
Michael, at age twenty-one, traveled with a group of friends from St. Louis, Missouri to Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention. He was an editor at his college newspaper and felt "sheer curiosity" to witness what was going to happen. He made his way through Grant Park and ended up outside the Blackstone Hotel, arguing with an alternate convention delegate from New Jersey. Michael described the chaos of the crowd at that corne...
- Creator
Koetting, Michael
Grannan, Jill
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Riots
Elections
Politics - Type
- sound
- Format
- Audio file: 42:34 minutes
- Language
- English
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- © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Koetting, Michael, Grannan, Jill. I WAS THERE: Michael Koetting. 2008-08-29. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/74. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Koetting, Michael, Grannan, Jill, (2008-08-29) I WAS THERE: Michael Koetting. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/74
- MLA citation style
- Koetting, Michael, Grannan, Jill. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/74>.