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The Walker Report
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Item Title The Walker Report
Guest Zion, Sidney
Guest Rumsfeld, Donald (1932-)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJanuary 13, 1969
Description

"The dispute," WFB begins, "over just exactly what happened in Chicago during the Democratic Convention-I mean other than the nomination of Humphrey-was not settled by the so-called Walker Report, which is itself at least as controversial as the Warren Report on Dallas." The dispute on this show is at times nearly as heated as the one in the Chicago streets five months before, the starting point being the Walker Report's comparative figures for hospitalizations of rioters and policemen. WFB: "It occurs to me that this surely would be the first time in history that one talks about excessive police brutality when the figures seem to suggest the reverse [192 policemen reporting to emergency rooms, as opposed to 101 demonstrators]." SZ: "... Except that I think in that situation, most of the demonstrators were being treated by their own little Red Crosses, and probably didn't feel that they should go to the Chicago hospitals...." WFB: "Oh, come on, Mr. Zion, are you saying-" SZ: "Oh no, quite. You know, people were hysterical-" WFB: "-that hospitals were under orders to what?" SZ: "I'm not saying that at all." WFB: "Give them strychnine?" SZ: "No, but their reaction to what might have happened in the hospitals may have been paranoiac."

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 133
Record Number80040.133
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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