I WAS THERE: Helen Ann Bourke
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- Created Date
- 2008-08-28
- Description
A college student at the time of the convention, Helen showed visitors around Chicago while working for Senator Eugene McCarthy's campaign. As a greeter and "hostess,"she wore a sundress with large daises on it , a symbol of McCarthy's presidential campaign. Helen spent most of her time at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, where she saw people throwing glass ash trays and bags of feces out of hotel rooms onto the police below.
- Creator
Bourke, Helen Ann
Russick, John
- 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: 17:58 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Bourke, Helen Ann, Russick, John. I WAS THERE: Helen Ann Bourke. 2008-08-28. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/19. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Bourke, Helen Ann, Russick, John, (2008-08-28) I WAS THERE: Helen Ann Bourke. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/19
- MLA citation style
- Bourke, Helen Ann, Russick, John. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/19>.