Chicago Police Officer John O'Shea remembers the 1968 Democratic National Convention

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Channel: Decades TV Network · 2018 · People & Blogs

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"What initiated confrontations between the police and the demonstrators was objects being thrown at us." Chicago Police Officer John O'Shea was there at the '68 DNC. Hear his story.

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