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My Chicago holiday snaps
In 1968 CHRIS KAUFMAN, on a holiday in US, witnessed the state’s brutal assault on peaceful democratic protesters. His mate Chuck Reynolds took these photographs
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THIS is the time of year when we all yawn discreetly over our neighbours’ holiday snaps. I came back from the US with some of my own but... this was 50 years ago from the Chicago streets when the police attacked anti-Vietnam war demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention.
I defy you to yawn.

First, a bit of background. My first visit to the US was in 1968. I was 21 and got a drive-away car in New York, found three co-drivers in Greenwich village and took four days driving the old beatnik route to the west coast thinking I was Jack Kerouac.

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