Word: haymarket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen wanted to accept the Weathermen at their word. They were waiting for the Weathermen to start shooting police from the rooftops, to blow up railroads, buildings . . . not something so symbolic as a statue of a policeman in Haymarket Square. Why didn't the Weathermen play their parts in ways that could be counted. measured; or assessed...
...fracas started as the Weathermen were staging a march with a heavy police escort from Haymarket Square to Grant Park as the finale to their "Bring the War Home" demonstrations...
...Weathermen began gathering in one corner of Haymarket Square around noon. Before the march started, however, plain clothed policemen filtered into the crowd and seized five Weathermen leaders, including Mark Rudd, national secretary, who was making his first public appearance during the disturbances...
...Haymarket Square was the scene of a major battle between police and union workers on a rainy May 4 in 1886. Last Monday, unidentified persons exploded a bomb under a statue erected in the square to the memory of seven policemen killed in the riots...
Weathermen have received a permit from the city for an early afternoon march from Chicago's Haymarket Square to Grant Park across from the Hilton Hotel. Weatherman leaders planned the next major action for Saturday becausethe permit makes it possible to rally in large numbers. Police began dispersing any gathering of even small numbers of radicals today and Thursday...