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    Reviving the spirit of '68

    by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency Aug 30, 2018 4 minutes

    I was a hippie/bicycle delivery boy living in San Francisco when the Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago 50 years ago, so I absorbed the chaos, the police riot, from half a continent away, but I knew with absolute certainty that the nation was changing and I was part of it.

    We were in the violent spasm of transition. How long would it last? MLK and RFK, as they called for peace and sanity and civil rights for all, had just been assassinated. This was the God of War, turning its vengeance inward.

    A year earlier I had been part of the march on the Pentagon. At one point a group of soldiers charged

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