Piedmont Police Riot

 
 
“The Great Hippie Hunt” Time magazine observed in October of 1969 that Atlanta’s power elite had declared war on hippies. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,839035,00.htmlhttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839035,00.htmlhttp://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,839035,00.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1
Police gathered in advance Sunday September 20, 1969 to provoke a confrontation. Then they surrounded and attacked the crowd - hippies, children, old people, average citizens of Atlanta enjoying the music on a September morn in Piedmont Park. Yet “Law and Order” candidates arrived with film crews to use the riot as a background for railing about the hippie menace! See pictures of the police attack! Read the account from The Great Speckled Bird Sunday in the Park http://bellsouthpwp.net/m/y/mystere2/vol2%23292.htmhttp://bellsouthpwp.net/m/y/mystere2/vol2%23292.htmshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1
Og, King of Basham’s foible on the riot http://bellsouthpwp.net/m/y/mystere2/FOIBLES%20TO%20ADE%20PEOPLE.htmshapeimage_5_link_0