50 yrs ago at the the May Day protests in DC (the largest acts of civil disobedience in US history), 3 unlikely radicals go undetected: my father (one month before publication of the #PentagonPapers), Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky.
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They were not among the 12K arrested, but they were maced. "Wow, that's good Mace!" my father exclaimed, "As if I were a connoisseur. What I meant was that this was a product that really worked as advertised." Afterward they dispersed, my father to a lecture by McGeorge Bundy at
the Council of Foreign Relations in NYC. "It was a surreal experience, after a morning of mobile tactics on 14th St. to be sitting in a room surrounded by my fellow war criminals, listening to LBJ's assist. for national security tell lies about the war."
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