From the Project Gutenberg Newsletter:
Rewriting The History Of The 1968 Chicago Police Riots
“The police and demonstrators were going after each other. The protestors were provoking the police.” — Tom Brokaw 11/16/04
This seems to be quite at odds with his former commentaries, which you can find searching “tom brokaw police chicago 1968” in which he says he fought with his parents “we had a huge fight” and that he thought his “parents who were FDR working class democrats” “would be very sympathetic towards the demonstrators.”
Apparently you really do get more conservative as you get older. [1968 was Mr. Brokaw’s first year of convention coverage.]
[By the way, as predicted here, it appears that both Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather will be marching off to join the other dinosaurs in the near future, and I predict Peter Jennings will join them. The average age of these three passed double the median age of the United States years ago when the median was 33 years of age. Their average age is now around 73 years old. Mr. Lehrer is only just now coming up to 70.]
AND
John Wayne on “stealing” the America from its original inhabitants
Q: “For years American Indians have played an important — if subordinate — role in your Westerns. Do you feel any empathy for them?”
A: “I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that’s what you’re asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
Beginning tomorrow, VatulNet will join The International Campaign For Justice In Bhopal in marking the 20th anniversary of the Union Carbide disaster which claimed between 3800 and 20,000 lives, depending on who you believe. Yet, the truth remains that “such body counts become meaningless when you know that the dying has never stopped.”
