Allen Ginsberg telling a Pacifica Reporter about getting tear-gassed:

ALLEN GINSBERG: (CROWD NOISE) "...was gas and I think smoke bombs, too. We weren't close enough, believe me, to see exactly what they were doing. REPORTER: Well, what did you hear? Explosions and - GINSBERG: Gas grenades, mostly gas grenades and they were coming motorized. They weren't walking. Some were walking, some were, uh, riding, either three-wheeled motorcycles or motorcycles, or even cars, I don't know.."

1968 was a pivotal year in American history - and Pacifica was there to report on it, with perspectives and insights not offered elsewhere in radio journalism. This audio comes from the Pacifica Radio Archives Revolution Rewind preservation project.