Dr. Quentin Young, of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, describes the events surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, especially focusing on the violence that injured some 1100 people. He delivers his narration from Grant Park, Federal Building, Daley Plaza, and Bughouse Square.
00:00Copy video clip URL Exterior of the Hilton Chicago and surrounding area. Street sign at Michigan and Balbo in downtown Chicago. Gen. John Logan Memorial Statue in Grant Park.
02:56Copy video clip URL Color bars.
03:09Copy video clip URL Footage of Grant Park.
03:37Copy video clip URL Dr. Quentin Young steps in front of the statue of Logan in Grant Park to discuss the demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Demonstrators gathered at this statue at the start of the protests. Young details his own role with the Medical Committee for Human Rights. He discusses the police attacking journalists and demonstrators and the huge number of people that he and his fellow doctors treated for injuries during those protests. He contrasts the city’s “strategy of confusion” with what the Medical Committee described as a “strategy of contusion” because of the extensive injuries.
05:20Copy video clip URL Repeating the line: “This set the stage for what really happened in Chicago” and walking off camera. Other re-shoots of specific lines. Young elaborates on the injuries that they treated: more than 1100 people injured, caused almost exclusively by the Chicago Police Department (as opposed to the National Guard, which was also present).
07:44Copy video clip URL Another reshoot, with further discussion of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
09:05Copy video clip URL Another reshoot.
10:20Copy video clip URL Shots of Young in front of the Logan statue and around Grant Park.
12:55Copy video clip URL Videomaker Judy Hoffman and Young in front of the John C. Kluczynski Federal Building and the Federal Plaza, includer Alexander Calder’s sculpture “Flamingo,” setting up the next shot.
13:20Copy video clip URL Young, standing in front of “Flamingo,” starts to discuss appearing in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities after the convention.
13:50Copy video clip URL Young elaborates on the HUAC’s history and reads a portion of his testimony, in which he asserted that HUAC was “an illegal and unconstitutional tribunal.”
16:08Copy video clip URL Another re-shoot in front of “Flamingo.”
16:58Copy video clip URL Young repeats his testimony. He elaborates on the decision to participate in the HUAC hearings out of a need to defend the good name of the Medical Committee and to share the truth about the city’s dangerous failures during the convention. His testimony includes multiple assertions of the illegality of HUAC and the need to protect the civil rights of his patients – the protestors – and the doctors of the Medical Committee.
21:22Copy video clip URL Young rereads the end of his testimony, then repeats it after an ambulance siren disrupts the shot.
24:38Copy video clip URL Shots of Young in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building. “I was 45 years old when I gave this testimony.” Shots of the Federal Plaza.
27:35Copy video clip URL Hoffmann and Young
28:39Copy video clip URL Young in Daley Plaza, “the seat of government for Cook County and the city of Chicago.” He crosses the plaza in front of an untitled sculpture by Pablo Picasso while discussing their responsibilities for public health care and the health care for the poor.
31:50Copy video clip URL Shots of downtown Chicago and of the County Building.
35:42Copy video clip URL Young, standing in downtown Chicago on a sidewalk, discusses the present health care crisis and the need for a single-payer health care system to address the need.
36:20Copy video clip URL In Bughouse Square, a middle-aged African American woman stands on a soapbox asserts the need for hosing for the poor while Young looks on.
37:35Copy video clip URL Shots of Bughouse Square, including several shots of pigeons.
39:15Copy video clip URL Young stands in Bughouse Square, “Chicago’s bastion of free speech,” and talks about its history. He steps up onto a soapbox while sharing his longstanding disagreements with the American Medical Association and the need for a national health insurance system despite the AMA’s opposition. Followed by several reshoots and insert shots of Young stepping onto the soapbox and shots of Bughouse Square.
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