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In reply to the discussion: Let's have a poll on JFK [View all]former9thward
(33,424 posts)I am from Chicago although I didn't get a cracked head in 1968. None of the locals did. We told the people from New York (Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden and David Dellinger) exactly what was going to happen but they would not listen to us. They knew better and would negotiate permits from the city.
Well I am getting off topic. Richie Daley who took over as mayor when dad passed (after a brief period of non-Daley usurpers) bought off all the 68 radical crowd giving them jobs in his administration. He got endorsed by all 'right' lakefront liberals. So he was not right wing in any respect as long as you bowed to him. He happily allowed the Mafia to man the city laborers union and transportation workers that work for the city. He was friends with near northwest side mobbed up aldermen. And they with him. As long as they are making money they don't care if Stalin is running the show.