Summer 68 Newsreel 505 (1969)

This documentary provides an indepth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago It documents draft resistance the growth of GI coffee houses the development of alternative media and the early days of Newsreel itself It is particularly useful in its exploration of the problems the movement faced in using mainstream media to broadcast its message It is also a document of the philosophies tactics and problems of the student movement in the crucial year of 1968 It is most useful when background information can also be provided