" 5251, Chicago." " 5251." "Better send an ambulance out to the Eisenhower... in front of the MacKenzie turnoff." "Got a wreck." "We got coverage." "We'll send it in with the bike man." " Ten-four." " Okay." "5251, clear." "Now, that's his public posture, but he's the one who's right there... with his eyes glued to the screen when the blood starts running" "And he's the one who says, "Ooh, isn't it horrible?" "." "Isn't it horrible?" "." "Let me see some more."" "There are a lot of people who buy The New York Times." "What I mean to say is that it happens" "It has happened always, whether it was a photographer... or a journalist or a cameraman." "When you are in the middle of something happening, you" "It is a risk of the profession." "What's the difference between a person who types something and a typewriter?" "." "The typewriter doesn't really care about what's being typed." "But a typewriter's a machine, and you're not a machine." "Actually, I'm kind of an elongation of a tape recorder." "I've made films on all kinds of social problems." "The big bombs were the ones where we went into detail... and showed why something happened." "Nobody wants to take the time." "They'd rather see 30 seconds of somebody... getting their skull cracked, turn off the TV and say, "Let me have a beer."" "But Hollywood, the news med" "Well, our position is one to-- to record." "The dynamics that are happening in society" "We don't deal with the static things." "We deal with the violence." "We deal with" "Who wants to see somebody sitting, to see somebody lying down... somebody talking peace, unless they're talking loud?" "." "The cameraman makes the choice himself." "He's out to get the blood and guts." "I believe that." "The other night on television... there was a fellow in Gary-- in the ghetto." "If there's something else that maybe is nice, that could fill the news... he'll take the stabbing, even if he's had 27 minutes of stabbing before." "They're someplace safe, away from it." "They deplore it... but they deplore it like all good people." "All good people deplore problems at a distance, like Thomas Jefferson." "He loved the common man, but at a distance." "This is exactly what happened." "Five cameramen have been killed, one in Germany." "He was beat to death by a mob, literally beat to death-- for UPI." "Know the excuse?" "." "The crowd thought he was taking pictures for the police." "They had a couple of fellas in a civil rights protest... that were chained together, and I was taking pictures." "Cops said, "Don't you think you'd better load the camera?" "'" "I says, "I'm not out of film." They said, "Load it anyway." "We wanna move these guys." And he starts pushing the lens." "I says, "The next time you push me, I'll fall down and start crying."" "He walked away." "The 1 20 Angineaux lens, and yanking back and forth... yelling "Black Power" at me, and I'm just shaking to death... with a $1,200 lens on the camera." "I am in the middle." "I got no place to hide." "I'm carrying a 40-pound camera, trying to get pictures of it." "The rioterwants to beat me up, thinks I'm trying to identify him for police." "The policeman wants to elbow me out of the way... and I'm being gentle about it because he doesn't want the sergeant to see... he picked up some guy by his neck and threw him in the backseat of a car." "Then the editor says, "I want the pictures." "My audience doesn't care what brought this on."" "You have to feed your family." "You need the money." "Ifyou don't bring them back, you're not going to have a job." "Forget that." "I've got a job to do, and I'm interested in it." "The point I resent very much is the fact that wherever I go, I'm beat up." "Shoot into those troops!" "." "Shoot 'em!" "Shoot the shit out of'em!" "Get 'em!" "You guys are shot!" "What kind of country is this?" "." "What's wrong?" "." "We're people!" "Why do you have soldiers here with bayonets?" "." "We got a captive." "Hold on." "That was an unprovoked attack that was retaliatory" "Not me." "Not me." "This man has an obsolete weapon." "Make love, not war." "They stabbed one of our guys in the belly." "I am Brigadier General Richard T. Dunn... commanding general of the emergency operation headquarters... of the Illinois Army National Guard." "The emergency operation headquarters... is one which was established last winter... for the purpose ofplanning and controlling operations... in the event of civil disturbances." "Over." "Out in the street, their bayonets are fixed... and they know it's for real in a real riot in the city." "And here we know it's more or less" "It's a war game, more or less." "How's it going so far?" "I couldn't tellyou." "I'm the enemy." "We love you guys." "We have women foryou, beer." "Come on!" " Sing it, now." " Glory, glory, hallelujah" "His truth is marching on" " When do we want freedom?" " Now!" " When do we want equality?" " Now!" " When are we gonna get it?" " Now!" "It is what our forefathers fought for-- the free choice ofpeople!" "Y eah!" "This country is changing." "It is no longer for all the people." " It is for some ofthe people." " Y eah!" " We see a war we do not want." " Y eah!" "We see an apathy towards love and brotherhood." "Y eah!" " Bring out the mayor." " We want the mayor!" " Hold on." " We want the mayor!" "We want the mayor!" "We'll bring thejudge out to talk to you." "We want the mayor!" "We don't want a flunky!" "We want the mayor!" "My friends, I've stood before you many times." "Tell it to 'em, Mayor!" "You elected me mayor ofthis town for the last 20 years." " No, we didn 't!" " Tell it to 'em!" "We've given you everything that we thought you needed." "I've let you use our swimming pool every 4th ofJuly." "We want it every day ofthe year!" "We've operated" "We've operated the liquor store with a minimum ofprofit." "Sock it to 'em, baby!" "Sock it to 'em." "I understand that you have some problems." " You have avoided our problems!" " I understand that you have" "I understand that you have some complaints." "We shall overcome." "We shall overcome." "We shall overcome" "Some day" "Yeah" "Get the guys with the cameras." "Four, three, two, one." "Fade in." "Richard starts back." "And cue announce." "And keep on coming." " And hold." " What's wrong?" "Now." "Down and in slowly." "Very slowly." "You riding iris on this, Jerry, or what?" "Slate on one." "Stand by to take." "Roll tape to record." "In, Arnold." " Stand by." " Four, three... two, one." "Fade in." "You want to move over here, please?" "." "Let's go." "Time is money." "Let's go." "Gus, is the El too loud for you?" "." "No, we can live with it." "Who here is old enough to vote?" "." "I took my physical last week." "Physical to vote?" "." " Why are you working for Kennedy?" "." " He's the best." " He's got long hair." " He's against the war." " What are you doing here?" "." " She's my friend." "He's an idealist." "He's for anyone who hasn't got a chance." " Who are you for?" "." " I don't like him because of Oswald... and Dallas and all that." "What does that have to do with it?" "." "I think he should have looked into it." "There's a lot of serious questions that haven't been answered." "In the Saturday Evening Post there was a statement... that the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico... only two months before John Kennedy" "May I help you?" "Damn it." "It looks like I'm a prime target." "First the hubcaps, now my radio antenna." "Rotten kids." "What's the difference?" "." "Channel Eight's got more where these came from." "That's not the point." "What?" "." " Where do you want to go?" "." " How about a movie?" "." "Come on." "Go after her!" "Attagirl!" "In the crotch!" "Atta baby!" "In the crotch!" "Kill her!" " Kill her!" " Pull her hair!" " Tie her up!" " Kick her in the back!" "Kick her in the back!" "Yea!" "Let's see some action!" "You're just a chicken!" "Go to work." "Go to work." "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" " No cheating." " Goes foryou too." "That's right." "All right." "Deuces are wild, Robert." "Whoops." "All right." "Show him what to do." "Now, deuces are wild, Robert." "They count as anything you want 'em to." "Hold 'em." "Hold 'em." "Take this one." "Throw the rest away." " This?" "." " How many you want?" "." " I want four." " Four?" "." " How many you want?" "." " Five." "You mean four." "No cheating, now." " Two aces." "What do you got?" "." " I got two treys." "Two treys." " What'd you do?" "." "You throw" " I got two aces." "You throwed down my three nines down, didn't you?" "." "No, he got 'em." "I didn't get 'em." "They're in the deck." "He threw 'em down." "Boy, it's hot." "You got anything to drink?" "." "Miss Horton, you have anything to drink?" "." " There's plenty ofwater in the sink." " I don't want any water." "I want a Coke or something." "Let's go get a Coke, Robert." "We'll see you there." " Where'd your friends go?" "." " To get a Coke." "Get a Coke?" "." " What was you playing?" "." " Deuces wild." " Who won?" "." " Nobody." "Nobody." " What's the matter?" "." " Nothing." "You're pretty dirty." "You've been working them birds." "You'd better go wash up before we eat supper." "Well, go on." "Go on, now." "Get." "We thank Thee, Lord, for this food." "Bless it to the nourishment of our bodies." "In Thy name we pray." "Amen." ""The racing pigeon, or homing pigeon... remains faithful to its mate throughout its life... provided that the mate is present at all times... especially when the male bird returns... after a long flight." "In addition, when the pair has young... this bond is even stronger." "If, however, the family is separated... for an extended period... the male pigeon, not unlike his human counterpart... can be relied upon... to seek female companionship elsewhere. "" "Roll it up." "This may be the last time" "May be the last time but I don 't know" "Well, it may be the last time you march on the capitol" "Well, it may be the last time you march on Congress" "Well, it may be the last time you march foryour freedom" "Thinking, this may be the last time" "Appalachia." "You see the si gn?" "." " Could we get a drink of water first?" "." " T o hell with the water." "Let's find this guy." "They're behind the Mexicans, ain't they?" "." "I heard they were behind the San Francisco contingent." " This is in this direction here." " I thought it was a blue tent." "I don't know how these people listen to this crap." "I don't know how long this is gonna keep going." " Well, where is it?" "." " Let's go this way." "I would hope, now that the California primary is finished... now that these primaries are over... that we could now concentrate on having a dialogue... or a debate, I hope, between the vice president and myself... of what direction we want to go in." "Mayor Yorty hasjust sent me a message... that we've been here too long already." " We love you, Bob." " My thanks to all ofyou... and now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there." "We want Bobby!" "Oh, no I don 't believe it" "You say that you think you know the meaning oflove" "You say love is all we need" "You say with your love" "You could change all ofthe fools all ofthe hate" "I thinkyou're probably out to lunch" "You guys here to cover the funeral?" "." "Yeah, that's what we're here for." "I didn't hear you come in last night." "You score?" "." "You left the TV set on." "You know, you can meet a lot of interesting people in a cocktail lounge." "You know that for every man in D.C., there are four and a halfwomen?" "." "It's a beautiful city, huh?" "." "Wow." "Beautiful." "Boy, this air-conditioning really gets you." "Look at these guys." "Couple of hours, they're all set up." "Twenty, twenty-five camera positions-- like nothing." "They've had experience since we did J.F.K. in '63." "Hello, ladies." "What are your plans for the summer-- this, which will be a very political summer... and possibly a very hot one." "Oh, well, now, let's not get into politics." "Well, we always go up to our place... up in Ontario, up in Canada." "It's a place called Desbras." "That's D-E-S." "It's French." "It's not like a girl's name." "And, well, about this time ofyear, we always start looking forward... to getting away from the city and the crowds and the heat." "It's very primitive up there." "And I think sometimes it's good for the soul... to get away from civilization, don't you think so?" "." " Hello." " Hello." " Is your mother home?" "." " Yes." "No." " No?" "." "Is she working?" "." " Yes." "What time will she be home?" "." " At 1 2:00." " I see." " Now, how long have you lived here?" "." " I don't know." " You don't know?" "." " No." "Could you tell me where you lived before you moved here?" "." " Yes." " Where?" "." " West Virginia." " I see." "Now, how many rooms do you have?" "." " No-- yeah." "Four." " Four rooms." " Do you have a TV set?" "." " Yes." " Do you have a stereo?" "." " Yes." "And how many brothers and sisters do you have?" "." " None." " You're the only child?" "." " Yes." " And how old are you?" "." " Thirteen." " Thirteen." "Really?" "." " And do you go to church?" "." " Yes." "That's a good boy." " Now, what is your father's name?" "." " Buddy." " What?" "." " Buddy." " Does he live here at home with you?" "." " No." "Could you tell me where I could find him?" "." "At Vietnam." "Let's go see what damage we done up here." " Look at the holes there." " Golly!" "Look around and see ifyou can find another." "Hell, I got something here." "Come here." "I ain't gonna waste this, though." "Drink this." "Come on." " You want to shoot it?" "." " Uh-uh." "It ain't gonna hurt you." "Just put a shell in like that." " It's safe." "It won't hurt you at all." " I don't want to shoot it." "Draw it back." "Knock it off of there." "That's all you got to do." "Come on." "Let's go." "Come on." "Let's go look at pigeons." "Nothing's missing." "I looked." "You out of shape, pal?" "." "What's in the basket?" "." "Dinner." "Why don'tyou admit it?" "Go on.Just say it." "You're a bastard." "Admit it to me." "Admit it to yourself." "You're a rotten, egotistical, selfish... punchy cameraman." "Well?" "." "Well?" "." "Well?" "." "Look at this here." "Look." "How do you like it?" "." "Gus wired it up for me." "Look back there." "Fiber optics." "Great, huh?" "." "See the TV?" "." "Lights." " Look at that." " John." "Do you remember when we saw Mondo Cane?" " We didn't see Mondo Cane." " Well, I saw it." "I saw it, too, but I don't remember seeing it with you." "Well, anyway, that's not the point." "What's the point?" "." "Well, you remember that scene... on an island, where they tested an atom bomb?" "." "Yeah." "Well, there were these big turtles... you know, tortoises, who, at a certain time in their lives... would walk to the sea to lay their eggs." "And they found that the radiation thing... threw the turtles' sense of direction... so instead of heading to the sea, they went inland and died." "Oh, I'm crying." "Damn it!" "Look, somebody took those movies, right?" "." "I mean, do you think did they or didn't they... after they took those movies" "Do you think" " Did they reach down and turn those turtles around... or did they put them in a jeep and drive them back?" "." "How the hell do I know what they did?" "." "Those were Italian cameramen." "I give up." "I surrender." "No calories." "I'd rather keep my kidneys for a while." ""Research physicians at the Istituto del Salvador Muni in Rome... reveal today the results of tests... involving a new device to be worn by expectant mothers... during the entire course of their pregnancy." "This device consists of a steel and plastic cylinder... which can be controlled to create a partial vacuum... around the mother's abdomen, reducing atmospheric pressure on the fetus." "This pressure-- which is at sea level 1 4.7 pounds per square inch-- can be reduced by as much as 50%." "It was Dr. Giacobo Marciani... director of the hospital's research institute... who first made public the results of the test involving the new device." "Although it is anticipated that the price... in the early stages of development, at least... will be prohibited-- prohibiti-- prohibitive-- official comment on the new device... has not yet been forthcoming from the Vatican."" "Don't!" "You're crazy!" "No!" "Give me my sheet back!" "John!" "Give me that!" "I got you!" "You bastard!" "Son of a bitch!" "Let go of me, you fuck!" "Help!" "No, not on the floor!" "Jesus, you!" "Help!" "Put me down!" "Help!" "You bastard!" "Let go of me, you prick!" "Naughty, naughty." "I got neighbors." " Son of a bitch!" " I got neighbors." "Be quiet." "Catch you in the act." "They'll bust your arms." "I like you." "Me too." "I'm gonna knock the shit out ofyou." "Ouch!" "There he goes." "One good deed a year." "I heard that." " You dropped your newspaper." " Who are you?" "." ""Horton." "4444 North Clifton."" "I think this belongs to your little brother." "I don't have a brother." "It belongs to my son." "Mr. Horton go for green beans?" "." " Man." " Not on the car." "Not on the car." "Come on." "Get off the car." "Come on." "Off the car." "Come on." "Get out of there." "Come on." "Come on." "Out of the car." "This is an official car." "Come on." " All those kids out there yours?" "." " No." "They belong to my neighbors." " Are you from the mountains?" "." " West Virginia." " Just spent three weeks there." " You did?" "." "We sure starve a lot when the stamps run out." "Trouble is, you can't get no "tobaccy" on stamps." "So you know about the stamps." "No, not really." "I did this documentary." "Those words are on a tape." "Hello, Marian, this is Gus." "Page Katselas on number 51 2." "Have him report to the wagon immediately." "Ten-four." "Ten-four." "I could've let the bird go." "He would've flown back... but I don't know how he would've carried the basket." "It might've flown back to West Virginia." "Harold spends all his time trying to retrain him." " How long you been up here?" "." " Not too long." " John, call the office." " You got a telephone around here?" "." "In the hall." "Katselas here." "Yeah, but he's right outsi" "He did, huh?" "." "Yeah, all right." "Anything else?" "." "All right." "Thankyou." "You tell Harold the bad guy from the parking lot brought his bird back." " You tell him." "Hear?" "." " I will." "You mind turning this off?" "." "We're gonna make sound." "Would you shut this off?" "." " Shut it off!" " All right." "Where was the money really located?" "." "Was it stuffed in the seat?" "." "It was in an envelope on the floor." "What kind of envelope?" "." "What kind of an envelope was it?" "." "Ask him." "He's counting the money there." "He's counting the money." "How much money is it?" "." " How much money is it?" "." " Don't ask him." "I want to know from you." "How much money did you have?" "." "How much did you count?" "." "Did you count the money?" "." " $1 0,000." " You sure it was $1 0,000?" "." "It wasn't 9,000?" "." "Wasn't 1 1,000?" "." "9,000?" ". $1 0,000, right?" "." "It was 9,000." "I put 1,000 of mine to make it 1 0,000." "What you gonna do?" "." "Get funny now?" "." "Gonna start putting me on?" "." "Let's not play games with each other." "I'm here to find out why you turned in $1 0,000." "Where did you get it?" "." "Aren't you thankful I did turn in $1 0,000?" "." "Maybe not." "I'm a policeman." "I'm just here to find out the facts." "Just tell her we coverthe news." "We do not manufacture violence." "Talk to her, okay?" "." "Mrs. Harris, I'm re" " Well?" "." "Remember the shot of the cabby who turned the money in?" "." " Forget it." " There's a story there, Carlin." "A lot of people are interested." "I think it'll go on the Sunday reports." "No." "I got a convention coming up, a war..." "I got baseball, a nervous city... plus I got chickenshit cameramen that are afraid... to go into the ghetto without police protection." "No." "Stay out of those neighborhoods... until I send you in there." " I want film and lab." " They got film." " I want film and lab." " Would you please stop bothering me?" "." "Mr. Evans's office on line six." "Write up a voucher." "Yes, sir." "Good morning." "Hey, TV man." "Are we gonna be on TV?" "." "We wanna be on TV." " TV, that's for us." " Hey, TV man!" "What's happening?" "." "...slaughtered Philadelphia 9-0." "And finally, it was the Mets walloping the Pirates." " Locked?" "." " Yeah." "You know you're two blocks away?" "." "I had some trouble in there last ni ght." "Thought we'd keep the equipment safe." "White bread on sandwiches is not too cool." " Come on, now." " No." "That's out of it." "O-U-T." "Out." "I don't think we have any other kind, but I'll take a look-see." "Frank, I dug your name in the paper." "You're somewhat of a celebrity now." "Want to fill me in?" "." "Well, I'm not really a celebrity... but, yeah, I found the bread, and I turned it in." " You turned it in." " Uh-huh." "Were you acting as a Negro or a black man?" "." "I'm concerned about this." "What do you mean, was I acting as a Negro or black man?" "." "Ifyou were acting as a black man, you would've kept the money." "Ifyou were acting as a Negro, you turned it in." "You're my man." "You're my man and everything." " How much money was that?" "." " $1 0,000." "$1 0,000?" "." "You kidding?" "." "Dig, now, look." "You know" "Do you realize how much ammunition and guns... $1 0,000 would've bought?" "." "Well, I'm not quite there yet." "But I'm talking about, you got to be alive to be honest." " Whatyou doing around here, man?" " Just buying some cigarettes." "You ain't got no right coming here to buy no cigarettes." "Guys like you get shot all up, you know?" "." "Yeah." "Don't come here for cigarettes." "You know what I mean?" "." "We have a visitor." " Frank Baker live here?" "." " Frank Baker live here?" "." " Frank Baker, cabdriver?" "." " Frank Baker, cabdriver?" "." " Does he live here?" "." " Does he live here?" "." " Yeah." "Does he live here?" "." " Does he live here?" "." "There's no Frank cabdriver here." "You don't know him?" "." "He's a cabdriver." "I did a story on him." "I'm a reporter." " What's his name again?" "." " Frank Baker." " Frank Baker." " Come on." "You're putting the guy on." "This is the guy who put me on television." " How you doing?" "." " Very well." "I don't want to bust in." "I just wondered ifyou got five minutes to talk." " Let's do it over a drink." " Good." "You know, Chicago cops... are getting funnier-looking every day." " I'm not a cop." "I'm a soundman." " Bet you got credentials too." "The FBI supplies the best credentials." "We know that one of the best ways... for spying on black people is to impersonate TV men." "We're talking to Frank about doing a story." " Yeah?" "." "What's that?" "." " That's my Pageboy." " Your Pageboy?" "." " Yeah." "Hey, Richard, come and dig this cat's Pageboy." "Now, what do you do with "my Pageboy"?" "." "Well, I don't do anything." "It just hangs there." "If they want me to go someplace or do something, they call me on it." "You mean, they give you orders on this." "Yeah." "Man, you mean to tell me they talk to you, and you can't talk back?" "." "He means he's a receiver and not a sender." "Looks like they're calling you now." "What, you a white flunky or something?" "." "Wrong." "You got a bad idea about" "I forgot something downstairs." "I'll meet you in the car." "All right." "Coming back." "He's coming back." "There he goes." "There he goes." "A honky flunky." "Look, man, I've been on television..." "I've been in the newspapers, and it's made my life total confusion." "I find $1 0,000 in a cab." "I'm boob enough to turn it in... and I get my butt kicked by everybody in the world." " No, man." " That's just it, Frank." "It's a human interest story." "People identify." " It'll be constructive." " Are you coming, Frank?" "." "I'll give you a call, and we'll have another talk about it." "Thankyou." "Excuse me, TV man, you wanted someone for an interview, right?" "." "I haven't got time right now, dear." "I gotta run." "But I wanted to talk to you." "See, I'm a black actress." " Listen, honey" " I haven't got time" " Don't "honey" me." "I'm a black actress." "I demand respect." "I'm not looking for" " You call the station." " No." "You said you wanted somebody." "You want to hear-- know what's going on, what black people are doing?" "." " I'm not interested." " Wait, wait." " Don't "honey" me." " You got to start respecting our women." "I have no disrespect in mind." "I gotta leave." "I don't have time." "I want to talk to you about what I'd like to do." "You people are always busy putting your kind of people on." "I want to talk to you about what I want." " Listen, dear." " I told you about that "dear."" " I'm trying to be very respectful." " We demand" " You demand what?" "." " Demand respect." " Handle it." " I'll try." " Don't call me "honey."" " Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "This is the guy that came by the house." "I know the guy." "So don't give him a bad time." "Leave him alone." "He's all right." " Come on, baby." " He's a jive" "Wait a minute." "I want to talk to you." "Come in." "Let me askyou something." "Are you being friendly?" "." "Am I being friendly?" "." "I just saved your life." " If I got to be afraid" " You understand I just saved your life?" "." "If I got to be afraid foryour argument to work, you got no argument." "I want you to understand I saved your life." "You came down here to do some sort of jive interview." "You did that." "Came down here with 1 5 minutes of a black sensibility... and so you don't understand that." "You came down here to shoot 1 5 minutes... ofwhat has taken 300 years to develop." " Grief, you know?" "." " I'm not interested in grief" "All we're trying to explain to you is that you don't understand." "I do something." "I do it well." "That's my job." "You don't do it black enough." "You can't, because you're not black." "We are." "When you come and say you've come to do something of human interest... it makes a person wonder whether you're going to do something... of interest to other humans, or whether you consider the person human... in whom you're interested." "You have to understand that too." "You can't just walk in out ofyour arrogance... and expect things to be like they are... because when you walked in, you brought La Salle Street with you..." "City Hall and all the mass communications media." "And you are the exploiters." "You're the ones who distort... and ridicule and emasculate us, and that ain't cool." "You don't want to know, man." "You don't know the people." "You don't show the people." "Here's some cat who's down and out, you dig?" "." "He's nobody, so he says to his old man..." ""I'm nobody." "I'm gonna die, and ain't nobody gonna know I lived," dig?" "." "So the cat finds a brick and throws it through Charlie's window... or he takes a gun and he shoots." "Then the cat lives, man." "He really lives, dig?" "." "A hundred million people see the cat on the tube." "They say, "The former invisible man lives."" "Everybody knows about his wife and kids-- everything, you dig?" "." "'Cause the tube is life, man." "Life." "You make him an Emmy, man." "You make him the TV star of the hour... on the 6:00, the 1 0:00 and the 1 2:00 news." "'Cause what the cat is saying is truth, man." "Why don't you find out what really is?" "." "Why you always got to wait till somebody gets killed?" "." "'Cause somebody is gonna get killed." "Is that thing loaded?" "." "As a matter of fact, they call it a shotgun." "It looks about 1 2-gauge." " Let's go over here." " Okay." "There's a good background." "Very good." " We can't shoot here." " What do you mean?" "." "Too noisy." "Those gunshots will wipe us out." "It's always too noisy, isn't it?" "." "Let's go back over here." " Good for you?" "." " Yeah, fine." " Pepsi machine." "Good enough?" "." " Fine." "Excuse me." " What do I do now?" "." " Just speak in a normal tone ofvoice." "Rolling here." "Rolling." "Well, there's been about a 46% increase... in pistol registration since last year's riot." "We're getting our business from people... who want to protect their families and homes." " Can you hold on a minute?" "." " Excuse me." " The damn thing's stuck." " Point that down." "I've only got one head." "There we go." "See?" "." "This release." "There." "Okay?" "." " Thankyou." " There you go." " Not bad." " You ready again?" "." "You want to start again?" "." "Well, I don't know what you're looking for." "If a person has a driver's license... he has to know how to drive." "If a person gets a gun, he has to know how to use it." "How he uses it or what he uses it for is a personal right." "Sorry." " Dick, let me have a dime." " Sure, John." "There you go." "I asked him where he was." "He said, "I was on vacation."" "Hey, loverboy." "Dede's looking foryou." " Looking for me?" "." " Johnny." " There might be a little problem." " What is it?" "." "Carlin came around yesterday kind of mad." "Tell me something new." "Johnny, you know the outtakes for that footage?" "." " You know, the draft-card burners?" "." " Yeah." "Did you give that to the light show kids?" "." "For Christ's sakes, don't be cute." "What the hell did he say?" "." "He didn't say anything definite really." "He just complained about you being out when he needed you... and screwing around, shooting stupid interviews." "What the hell is up?" "." "Don't tell me what you think." "Just tell me what kind of shit's flying around." "Jesus, let go." "I'll tell you." "Well, for about a year now... the station's been letting the cops and the FBI... study our footage." "You're putting me on." "You're kidding me." "What am I, a fink?" "." "How can I go out and cover a story?" "." "It's a wonder more cameras haven't been smashed." "I want to know why nobody told me what the hell's been going on... because you can bet in the streets, they know." "You should've told me, Dede." " Just a sec, will you?" "." " Is he here?" "." "Where is he?" "." "I want to see him." "He won't be in this morning." "This is foryou." "Where the hell is he?" "." "Why won't he be in?" "." "What the hell is this crap?" "." "I don't know what day it plays." "Wha" "That was a business call." "Accounting." "Did you get a severance notice for John Katselas?" "." "Just a minute." "Yes, I have it here." "Who's calling?" "I'd tell them to stuff their lousy job in a minute." "Well, you know that." "I would." "I would." "As far as I'm concerned, I'm with you, John." "I'll tell the bastards, "IfJohn goes, then I walkwith him."" "Well, I gotta get moving." "Take it easy, Gus." "Remember me?" "." "Yeah." "Yeah, I almost didn't recognize you in that outfit." "I work over there at Motorola." "Well... it's been good seeing you." "How's the pigeon boy doing?" "." "Real good.Just fine." " You always eat here?" "." " It's pretty bad, isn't it?" "." "Most times I bring my own." "Where you headed?" "." "Did you finish your salad?" "." "You want some of mine?" "." "Sure?" "." "What's the matter?" "." "Maybe it's just that he's not used to company, huh?" "." "What'd you do back home?" "." "I was a schoolteacher." "You were?" "." "Why aren't you teaching here?" "." "Things are very different up here." "Down home I taught five grades in one room for one thing." "Wow." "Like the little red schoolhouse." "Kind of." "But... see, they don't recognize me as a teacher up here." "The education that I had down home isn't good enough for them... for me to teach here, so I can't." "But I'll tell you, I don't think I'd want to anyway." "I wouldn't want to teach in the schools in this neighborhood." " Why not?" "." " They don't teach you nothing." "It's a Chicago school." "They got to teach you something." "They don't." "They run a television in there." "Well, they use TV these days." "They use educational" "Yeah, but not that kind ofTV." "You watch anything you want." "They don't try" "When you ask them to-- that you want to do some work... they say, "No, you do what I tell you."" " They let you watch TV, is that it?" "." " Yeah, that's all." " They don't do nothing else." " Don't you like TV?" "." "Yeah, but" "You're probably doing what you like." " Where you from?" "." " Right here." "Chicago." "C.Y.O. welterweight boxer, 1 958." "You ever boxed?" "." "Or do you just wrestle when you fight?" "." "People down here use sticks, rocks... guns, and everything down here in here." " Nah, you don't use rocks, do you?" "." " Yeah." "I don't." "They do." " Only dirty fighters use rocks." " And guns and sticks." "You got a gun?" "." "Play gun?" "." "That's good." "I shot a gun when I was eight-- I mean, ten years old." " Where?" "." " West Virginia." "I'll take him with me to C.Y.O. maybe... and let him hit the bag." "Can I watch TV?" "." "Help me put the plates in the sink, and then you can go watch TV." "I'll give you a hand here." "Is your bird okay?" "." "The other day, I thought you were stealing something off my car." "I don't steal!" "Anyway, what's so great about your shitty car?" "." "I brought your bird back, didn't I?" "." "Anyway, it's not my car." "Beverly Hillbillies, normally scheduled forthis time... will not be seen tonight." "Instead, we bringyou the third part ofa network special... on John F. Kennedy, Martin L uther King... and Robert Kennedy." "Why'd they fire you?" "." "Can you get another job?" "." "Can you get welfare?" "." "I mean, unemployment?" "." "Do I look worried?" "." "Too many questions." "Why they canned me?" "." "I'm not sure I know the answer." "I started a story about a cabdriver who found all that cash... somebody lost and, for unknown reasons, wouldn't claim." "Why?" "." "There's only one kind of money a guy would be afraid to claim." "I had some idea maybe there was a connection... between guns, vigilante groups... maybe getting ready for a blowup this summer, you know?" "." "Then I got sort of sidetracked-- interested, so to speak." "But nobody said anything about this." "My director just told my union local..." "I had taken company film without authorization." "You see, it gets pretty complicated." "People rarely say the real reasons for things." "Big corporations never do." "Just politics... plain bureaucratic politics." "I guess it's the season up here." "Anyway, we only been in Chicago a little while... not even long enough for me to vote." "Come on." "Tell me how you managed to teach five grades in one classroom." "I didn't manage." "One thing I did was" "Well, I just had three in the third grade... so I put one boy up to fourth... and a boy and girl back to second." "That way I only had four grades." "Is that the new math?" "." "Gather with the saints at the river" "That flows by the throne ofGod" "Shall we gather at the river" "Where bright Angel's feet have trod" "With these Christians at the river" "That flows by the throne of God" "Yes, we shall gather at the river" "The beautiful, beautiful river" "Gather with the saints at the river" "That flows by the throne of God" "Yes, we shall gather at the river" "The beautiful, beautiful river" "Gather with the saints at the river" "That flows by the throne of God" "Well, I don 't know what will happen now." "We've got some difficult days ahead... but it doesn 't really matter with me now... because I've been to the mountaintop." "I don 't mind." "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life." "L ongevity has its place... but I'm not concerned about that now." "Ijust want to do God's will." "And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain." " Jesus, I love to shoot film." " And I've looked over... and I've seen... the promised land." "I may not get there with you... but I want you to know tonight... that we, as a people... will get to the promised land." "Do you feel it?" "." "X rays, is that what it is?" "." "Does it grow hair?" "." "Is it vitamins?" "." "Can you feel violence?" "." "I don't know what to think." "It seems like no man's life is worth anything anymore." "You see... the media's got a script now... by the numbers." "Flags at half-mast." "Trips canceled." "Ball games called off." "Schools closed." "Flags at half-mast." "Memorial meetings." "Memorial marches." "Moments of silence." "A widow cries, and then she says brave words." " More moments of silence..." " Standing by..." " in our Washington studio is..." " then the funeral procession." "a foremost expert on urban violence on the contemporary scene." "A lot of experts... saying how sick our society is, how sick we all are." "The script is a national drain-off." "People say, "Yeah, yeah, we're guilty." "We're bad."" "'Cause a lot of people are afraid." "They're afraid... the Negroes are going to tear up their stores, burn neighborhoods... so they have this nationwide... coast-to-coast network special called "Mourn the Martyr."" "Nobody's really on the hook, you see?" "." "Traditionally, religion has supplied the moral backstop." "When the script is finished and Tuesday comes around... or Saturday and..." "National Drain-Off Week is over... everybody goes pretty much back to normal." "Normal this, normal that." "You know, normal." "We will be able to speed up that day... when all ofGod's children-- black men and white men..." "Jews and gentiles..." "Protestants and Catholics-- will be able to join hands... and sing in the words ofthe old Negro spiritual" "Free at last!" "Free at last!" "Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" "Goose bumps." "It reminds me of church down home... sitting there with Clovis... and Grandma and Buddy." "This program, the third ofa series... was brought to you as a public service by station WHJP." "Stay tuned for the Late Show next on Channel 8." "I know your husband can't come charging through the door." "It'd be too corny, like the Late Show." "Buddy's dead." "UnitedAirlines says, "Come fly with me. "" "We make it easy foryou to dojust that... with Discover America Fare for vacation people." "And foryoung people, we have a great family plan... for families of all ages and all sizes." " Well..." " So the next time... you andyour family plan a vacation... it's raining like hell, and I'm riding the C.T.A. these days." " 1 :00's the last one." " rememberto fly..." " the friendly skies ofUnited." " Well, thanks." "It's 1 1:30 on WHJP." "Harold must have me on his list." "No, you're wrong." "Once he speaks his mind, he's clear." "Tonight Channel 8 proudly presents Brigitte Bardot..." " Wait!" " andJack Palance... in a film by the controversial French director,Jean-L uc Godard." "In a moment, Contempt." "Here." "Don't want you to get wet." "I won't." "Come on, boy." "Listen." "You know... there's a lot of things that you don't understand about womenfolks..." "I want to talk to you about it, ya hear?" "." "A man has got to be boss of his home." "There ain't no two bosses in the family because it ain't right." " You understand that?" "." " Yeah." "The thing I'm trying to show you is that women don't understand a man." "Your home is your castle." "I don't care how bad orwhere you live or what it is." "That's your castle, and that woman was made foryou and belongs to you." "You don't belong to her, but she belongs to you." "You twain become one flesh, and that flesh is you." "She belongs to you, you understand?" "." "There's a lot of good womenfolks in the world, don't get me wrong." "I mean, the majority of them, they get high ideas..." "like they want to go out on their own." "They want to take over things." " That's right." "Yeah." " Is that what you mean?" "." "But don't you never let them, son." "Come here." " Wow!" "Somebody made this." " You see it?" "." "Yeah, I made it." "Look at this." "Wow!" "That's a shower." "You take your clothes off over here... then you jump in there." "What'd your daddy do in West Virginia?" "." "Coal miner." "Why isn't he coal mining now?" "." "Coal mine shut down, I reckon." "We moved to Chicago." "He left, and we ain't seen him since." "Just took off." "I don't know." "We'll be good friends, okay?" "." "Bye." "Hey, champ." "How you doing?" "." "You see, the object of this one... is speed and power... so... you work on both." "You see... really, the object is... to knock the other guy's brains out, and then you win." "Roll numberthree, numberthree." "Sound roll numberthree." "National Democratic Convention, August 1968." "Hey, how goes my boy, Johnny the Greek?" "." " All ri ght." "Good." " Good, good." "You look like you're doing all right these days." "I saw you in the film with Norman Mailer." " What kind of a guy is he?" "." " He's out of sight." "I mean, Mailer is wild." "He's crazy." "But the thing about Mailer is that he cuts through the bullshit." "I mean, Mailer is a force." "He's a heavyweight." "Excuse me." "May I make up your room, please?" "." "Sure." "Listen, you don't have to start until Thursday." " Can you get your own equipment?" "." " Yeah, sure." " We shooting EF?" "." " Yeah, but not pushed." "Excuse me." "I'll just change the towels... and then I won't disturb you anymore." "You seem kind of down,John." "Sometimes up, sometimes down." "Nah, I'm okay." "I'm just anxious to get working." "The photography is not the problem with this job, baby." "This job is keeping up without being crushed... or having your clothes torn off." "You'll see the day after tomorrow." "You still see the nurse?" "." "No, not for some time now." " What was her name?" "." " Ruth." "And her number?" "." "Testing station two." "One, two, three, four." "Station two is good." "Let's go on to station three." "One, two, three." "One, two, three." "L et me see station three." "Station three." "L et me see your light up there." "L et's see your light up there, station three." "That's good." "L et's try station two now." "Station two." "One, two, three." "One, two, three." "L et me see station three." "Station three." "L et me see your light up there." "I used to come here for the circus when I was a kid." "I can still smell it." "That's the stockyards." "America is wonderful." "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful" " It really makes it" " Free" "Who's that?" "." "Oh, wow!" " Y eah, man." " What's happening, man?" "." "Flashing." "Flashing." "Flashing, man." " Flashing, man." "Crazy, man." " The sky is blue." "Out of sight, yeah." "Listen, are you hung up?" "." " A little strung out, mate?" "." " I can't understand." "Out of sight, yeah." "Listen, are you hung up?" "." "Hi, boys and girls." "I'm Jimmy Carl Black." "I'm the Indian of the group." "What's there to live for" "Who needs the Peace Corps" "I'm completely stoned I'm hippie, and I'm trippy" "And a gypsy on my own" "I'll stay a week and get the grass and take a bus back home" "I'm reallyjust a phony" "But forgive me 'cause I'm stoned" "Every town must have a place where phony hippies meet" "Psychedelic dungeons" "Popping up on every street" "Go to" "San Francisco" "How I love ya, how I love ya How I love ya, how I love ya" "Frisco" "How I love ya, how I love ya How I love ya, how I love ya" "Oh, my hair is getting good in the back" "Every town must have a place where phony hippies meet" "Psychedelic dungeons" "Popping up on every street" "Go to" "San Francisco" "First I'll buy some beads" "And then perhaps a leather band to go around my head" "Some feathers and bells" "And a book oflndian lore" "I will ask the chamber of commerce how to get to Haight Street" "And smoke an awful lot ofdope" "I will wander around barefoot" "I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times" "I will love everyone I will love the police" "As they kick the shit out ofme on the street" "I can't." "Harold's in there." "Please don't." "Don't." "Please." "Harold, you up here?" "." "I asked his friends." "I told you..." "I asked everybody in the whole neighborhood." "I've been up all night long looking for him." "Please, please, can't you send somebody to help me find him?" "." " You people" " Hello?" "." "Look, lady, we can't help." "The city's been invaded." "I can't spare a man." "They usually come back, lady." "Ladies and gentlemen!" "My name is Harold Horton!" "This is Harold Horton!" "Hawaii votes 26 votesyes." "Idaho, 25." "Idaho casts 22 1/2 votesyes... 2 1/2 votes no." "Iowa passes for the time being." "Iowa passes." "Kansas, 38." "Kansas casts 38 votesyes." "Kentucky, 46." "Ifyou do not leave, I will orderyour arrest." "L eave the park at once." "L eave the park at once." "You are in violation ofthe law." "Hell, no, we won't go!" "Peace!" "Now!" "I'm looking for John Katselas." "Yes." "Yes." "Where is he?" "." "Do you have the phone number?" "." "Where is the amphitheater?" "." "Peace!" "Now!" "Peace!" "Now!" "Join us!" "Join us!" "Join us!" "Move out." "Move out, man." "Join us!" "Join us!" "Join us!" " Come on, now." " Michigan and 1 8th." "Join us!" "Join us!" "Join us!" "Retreat!" "Retreat!" "Everybody retreat!" "This way!" "State Street!" "State Street!" "Stay together!" "Don't panic!" "Let's go!" "Everybody, move out!" "Move it!" "Move it!" "Where's the secondary?" "." "Stay together!" "Stay together!" "We can't get beat ifwe stay together!" "Don't panic!" " Over to the right!" " Sit down!" "Drop down!" "Get down!" "Back up and sit down!" "The whole world is watching!" "The whole world is watching!" "All right, you guys, move!" "Remember Prague!" "Remember Czechoslovakia!" "Don't forget Budapest!" "Get those cameras out of here!" "NBC, come back!" "Stay with us!" "NBC!" "Hey!" "Come back!" "Stay with us!" "All right, people." "Let's keep our cool." "There's nothing to fear ofthese people." "Keep our cool." "Yeah, tanks." "It's incredible." "They're stopping them on 1 8th." "Reinforce that lock." "Don't turn your backs to them." "Watch those two." "Just move ahead." "Move right ahead." "That's it." "Turn left." "Turn right." "Turn right." "Reinforce the single line." "You are subject to arrest." "Fuck you, pig!" "You are in violation ofthe law." "You are subject to arrest." "We have information for the persons amongyou... who may attempt to injure police officers." "We will take all necessary precautions..." " to protect the policemen." " Fuck you!" "This is the final warning." "L eave now." "Look out, Haskell!" "It's real!" "The mayor of Chicago." "Everybody gather in the center ofthe park." "Don't struggle with them." "Just hold hands." "Pigs!" "Get the badge numbers!" "Pigs are whores!" "Pigs are whores!" "Get up and get off!" "Let's get out of here, you son of a bitch!" "Move!" "You stinking' Commies!" "Pigs!" "Go home, pigs!" "Go home, you fuckin' cops!" "Mr. Chairman, Colorado rises... to a point ofinformation." "Is there any rule under which Mayor Daley can be compelled... to suspend the police state terror perpetrated this minute... on kids in front of the Conrad Hilton?" "The" "Mr. Chairman." "The chair must announce... that we are calling the roll ofthe States... and we recognize... delegates for no otherpurpose than to answer the call." "Pigs eat shit!" "Pigs eat shit!" "Pi gs are whores!" "Pi gs are whores!" "Ifyou don 't move up on the parkway, I'll orderyour arrest." "Move up on the parkway or I must orderyour arrest." "There isn 't any distinction anymore for us." "You go up on the side ofthe fire structure, we're gonna get you." "You come off on our side, then you get out." "You dig?" "I got a message now from the drop-off community." "There are people in the streets all over this country." "Up against the wall, motherfuckers!" "Will the sergeant at arms enforce order in the convention?" "The question is on the motion." "So many as in favor, vote aye." " Aye!" " Aye!" "Those opposed, no." "They ayes have it." "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "No more war!" "No more war!" "Join us!" "Join us!" "Join us!" "Mama!" "Ma!" "A friend ofmine from El Paso was with me." "Somebody threw something." "He said, "Didyou see that?" "It was a cap or something. " I said, "No. "" "Some cop says, "What'dyou throw?" "What are you doing here?"" "He said, "I'm from El Paso, Texas. " Then he pushed him into the crowd." "They're trying to keep them contained... so they can beat them up later." " That's right." " Then this girl passed through" "The policemen are grabbing and beating everybody in sight." "A line ofpolicemen has cut off the very front ofthe Hilton." " There's mayhem in the streets." " The victim was identified... as former Channel 8 News cameraman,John Katselas." "Katselas was taken to Michael Reese Hospital... where he's reported to be in critical condition." "Cause ofthe accident is under investigation." "A woman companion, not yet identified, was dead on arrival." "People were being clubbed-- and I mean in Technicolor 3-D-- and they were crying and screaming." "I don 't know that I've seen any bloodyet... but I've seen some liquid on the ground." "People were standing around crying." "What's your reaction to this girl with the McCarthy pin?" "I have no comment." "Girls, girls, boys, people of every description are being grabbed... and dragged into paddy wagons." "What didyou say?" "And they're chasing people, particularly people... with anarchist flags or anything like that." "You can see crowds running in all directions... and plenty ofthings are being thrown." "Police have just grabbed somebody... and are beating him over the head." "The whole crowd across the street isyelling, "Sieg heil."" "Another melee is taking place in the park... right in front ofthe nation." "Right in front ofthe entire nation, this is happening." "NBC" " TV is on the roof of the Haymarket Cocktails/Restaurant-- part ofthe Statler Hilton-- seeing these people being dragged into the police wagon." "The whole world is watching!" "The whole world is watching!" "I'm a successful businessman." "I've been saying, like everybody else..." ""These kids are a bunch ofbums. "" "Then I finally found out when I got down here... that, goddamn it, the kids are right." " What made you find out?" " I got gassed." "I came down here, and I got gassed." "Andyou kids, go, man, go!" "The police just grabbed somebody... and are beating him over the head... and are trying to throw him... into the paddy wagon." "A scoop, made ofpolice, simply... flies out and-- flies out" "Move!" "Move!" "I'm being made to move." "The cameraman, everybody's being made to move now." "Move!" "Move!" "Everybody move!" "We're being thrown up against the wall." "Let's go!" "Ijust got out ofbeing smashed against the wall... by the skin ofmy teeth... by showing my press badge to a kindly policeman." "People are being smashed up against the wall... and are being hit... by the police with their clubs." "And those are real night sticks... and people are really being hit."