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59 it seemed to Cronkite and Salant, Walter Cronkite, interviewed June 2002.
60 Viet Cong attack. The New York Times, February 12, 1968.
60 another forty-five wounded. Ibid., February 16, 1968.
63 “and for CBS to permit me to do.” Walter Cronkite, interviewed June 2002.
CHAPTER 4: To Breathe in a Polish Ear
66 “a very large, unlimited ego.” Marian Turski, interviewed July 1992.
67 he was meeting with Gomułka and other leaders. Dariusz Stola, historian at Istitut Studiów Politycznych, interviewed June 2001.
70 “but there was no other.” Jacek Kuroń, interviewed June 2001.
70 “noble human beings I have met in my life.” Jan Nowak, interviewed May 2002.
71 “He was boyish . . .” Ibid.
72 “anti-Semites call me a Jew,” Adam Michnik, interviewed June 2001.
75 “nude and full, as it were, face.” The New York Times, April 30, 1968.
75 from the bathtub in Brook’s production. Paris Match, June 29, 1968.
76 “Really stirring,” Michnik, interviewed May 2002.
76 “to attack Mickiewicz.” Ibid.
76 “We decided to lay flowers” Ibid.
76 “against students in Poland,” Ibid.
77 “an extremely dangerous man.” Ibid.
CHAPTER 5: On the Gears of an Odious Machine
82 “where most of the seniors are headed.” The New York Times, March 19, 1968.
83 “It suddenly occurred to me.” Cronkite, interviewed June 2002.
84 Seeger had turned into a civil rights song when sit-ins began in 1960. King, Freedom Song, 95–96.
84 at the counter until they were served. Register, North Carolina A&T, February 5, 1960.
85 “Tennessee and involved fifteen cities.” The New York Times, February 15, 1960.
85 “civil rights organizations completely by surprise,” King, Freedom Song, 69.
85 “identification with their courage and conviction deepened.” Tom Hayden, Reunion: A Memoir (New York: Collier, 1988), 32.
87 completely unaware of it. Tom Hayden, conversation May 2003.
87 “the South was beckoning,” Hayden, Reunion, 47.
87 “beating to beating, jail to jail,” Ibid., 73.
88 in green suitcases to the Naked . . . Allen Ginsberg, “Kral Majales,” Planet News: 1961–1967 (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968), 89–91.
88 “compelled to enforce federal law.” Isserman and Kazin, America Divided, 34.
88 from a bus here Saturday morning. Montgomery Advertiser, May 21, 1961.
88 Parchman Penitentiary. King, Freedom Song, 70.
89 with twenty thousand people arrested. Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam Books, 1987), 129.
89 North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, King, Freedom Song, 407.
91 “(I had no idea what that was anyway)?” Mario Savio, “Thirty Years Later: Reflections on the FSM,” 65. In Robert Chen and Reginald E. Zelnik, eds., The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
95 their own California party. King, Freedom Song, 490–91.
95 wearing only bathing suits. Jonah Raskin, For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 64–65.
96 more than 20 percent white, King, Freedom Song, 502.
97 “might feel bad if you didn’t share it.” Ibid., 406.
97 “bread by some dark skinned sharpie.” Raskin, For the Hell of It, 77.
98 “wrapped around induction centers,” Ibid., 96.
98 “sweep-in” was “a goof.” Ibid., 102.
99 to say it stood for Youth International Party. Ibid., 129.
99 SDS was more than half Jewish. Paul Berman, A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997), 44.
102 “what a reporter could do to a president, do you?” Langguth, Our Vietnam, 49.
102 “an epidemic around the world.” Walter Cronkite, interviewed June 2002.
CHAPTER 6: Heroes
103 had labeled “a conundrum.” Life, February 9, 1968.
105 “America was falling apart at the seams.” Raskin, For the Hell of It, 137.
105 “should activate the politician within him.” The Times (London), March 14, 1968.
105 primary inducement. The New York Times, April 1, 1968.
106 said British economist John Vaizey. Time, March 22, 1968.
106 The houses were all burned. Neil Sheehan,