throwing individuals like Village Voice reporter, Don McNeil, through glass doors, and dragging others out and arresting them.
Decades before CNN or the World Wide Web existed to transmit news in eal time, Radio Unnameable was there providing a link between people inside the terminal and the audience listening at home. (Fass even called the police precinct to let the cops know that the station was monitoring the attack live on the air). He broadcast eyewitness accounts from the scene and spoke to Abbie Hoffman, who was getting his wounds patched up at Bellevue Hospital. Washington Post reporter, Nicholas Von Hoffman, came directly from Grand Central to join Fass on the air. s a member of the establishment press, he opined, d have to say the police used excessive force.
It was a brutal initiation for the Yippies but it was also the moment that solidified Bob Fass