SIR!  NO SIR! -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

DAVID CLINE, U.S. ARMY: And they were court-martialed, brought up on various court-martial charges.  But it scared the hell out of the military.  Then they went around and went through the roster of all the units who were supposed to go, and took off who they considered quote "subversive." So a number of people, myself included, were not sent to Chicago.

NARRATOR: In one of the most infamous events of the 1960s, Chicago police brutally attacked the demonstrators in front of the Democratic Convention.

Although the Army had sent a contingent of riot control troops to Chicago from Ft. Hood, they kept them off the streets. It was no longer certain which side the GIs were on.  The military had a problem on its hands and it was about to go from bad to worse.

"RIOT" CONTROL?
1. WE DEMAND AN END TO THE ____ OF GIS AS COPS AND STREET ___ BREAKERS.
2. WE DEMAND THE US TO GET OUTOF SOUTHEAST ASIA.
3. WE DEMAND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR ALL GIS.

* GI SOC *

[HELL NO!]

MICHAEL WONG, U.S. ARMY: We were in the breakfast line, I believe, it was a long line ...

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