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28 anything to do with politics. Zdenek Mlynár, Nightfrost in Prague: The End of Humane Socialism (New York: Karz Publishing, 1980), 65.
28 “love at first sight.” Dubcek, Hope Dies Last, 35.
29 porcelain for his wife. Mlynár, Nightfrost in Prague, 66.
29 “narrow-minded bourgeoisie of Bystrica.” Shawcross, Dubcek, 50.
30 “depressing for me.” Dubcek, Hope Dies Last, 82.
30 long walks in the forest. Ibid., 83.
30 “victims of the 1950s repressions.” Ibid., 82.
31 meeting of the Slovak Central Committee. Shawcross, Dubcek, 76.
34 “real conditions in the Soviet Union.” Mlynár, Nightfrost in Prague, 2.
34 a habit of listening to others. Ibid., 122.
CHAPTER 3: A Dread Unfurling of the Bushy Eyebrow
39 adopted nonviolent law enforcement. David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1986), 209.
39 “and stay in the news.” Gene Roberts, interviewed September 2002.
39 “Your role is to photograph what is happening to us.” Flip Schulke, Witness to Our Times: My Life as a Photojournalist (Chicago: Cricket Books, 2003), xvi. Also witnessed by Gene Roberts, interviewed September 2002.
Sheriff Clark swinging his billy club at a helpless woman. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 381.
40 “the pen is still mightier than the sword.” Mary King, Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (New York: William Morrow, 1987), 248.
40 “seems to me somebody foreign to me.” Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 289.
40 King statement should be no more than sixty seconds. David Halberstam, The Children (New York: Fawcett Books, 1999), 433.
40 create fundamental changes—a slow, off-camera process. Mary King, Freedom Song, 480.
41 “you couldn’t shoot two hours.” Daniel Schorr, interviewed April 2001.
41 “attention by doing that.” Ibid.
41 “I’m afraid I did.” Daniel Schorr, Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism (New York: Pocket Books, 2001), 205.
42 enough time to formulate his response. Ibid., 157.
42 “a lot of crap! But it was live.” Daniel Schorr, interviewed April 2001.
42 and playing it that night. Ibid.
43 “tides of rage must be loose in America?” Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (New York: World Publishing Company, 1968), 51.
43 potential supporters of the antiwar cause. Dellinger, From Yale to Jail, 260–62.
44“white people and their attitude.” Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 573.
44 “could really sink us next fall.” Time magazine, January 26, 1968.
44 and economist Milton Friedman. The New York Times, January 12, 1968.
45 Tet as the next chance for peace. Ibid., January 2, 1968.
46 “self-determination in Southeast Asia.” Ibid., January 13, 1968.
47 McCarthy by a margin of 5 to 1. Ibid., January 15, 1968.
48 Time magazine version, Time magazine, January 26, 1968.
49 “what people really feel.” United Press International, January 19, 1968, ran in The New York Times, January 20, 1968.
50 IR8 rice story. Gene Roberts, interviewed September 2002.
51 film could be quickly shipped. Don Oberdorfer, Tet!: The Turning Point in the Vietnam War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 5.
52 killed in an American bombing, Ibid., 42–44.
52 to win a public relations victory. The New York Times, February 1, 1968.
52 more than ten million homes. Oberdorfer, Tet!, 240.
52 “could be incomplete.” The New York Times, February 5, 1968.
53 “stupid,” false,” and “unspeakable.” Ibid., June 20, 1968.
53 “the good offices of the mass media.” Life magazine, July 7, 1968.
54 brought the young man back to life. The New York Times, March 12, 1968.
56 “the blind, and the female.” Ibid., February 17, 1968.
56 weekly casualties, with 543 American soldiers killed. The New York Times, February 23, 1968.
57 surprise on Christmas Eve 1944. Oberdorfer, Tet!, 71.
57 “thousands of people around the country.” Ibid., 247.
58 heads never trusted a word from the generals. Conversation with David Halberstam, May