They are putting on their gas masks. They aren very experienced with them.
The ensuing attack, roughing up hippies and network news reporters alike, was broadcast live on television. When the dust settled, several of Fass comrades were arrested for conspiracy and inciting to riot. Fass escaped indictment and returned to WBAI where over the next decade, his show became a kind of an alternative Town Hall; Abbie Hoffman called virtually every night with an update from the show trial of the Chicago Seven, which lasted for months. Anti-draft protestors would phone from the courthouse after being arrested to ask Bob audience for help in raising bail. A woman called to say her landlord had set fire to her building and she had no other place to go — were there any carpenters listening who might help her rebuild? Over the long years of Rubin Carter incarceration for a murder