A few months before the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a call came for John Froines, an antiwar activist and PhD chemist from Yale. On the line was Tom Hayden, a fellow member of the anti-establishment Students for a Democratic Society, and a rising star of the left.
Come to Chicago, Hayden urged. Froines’s experience in anti-violent organising – sit-ins, community marches, vigils – was needed. Tens of thousands of demonstrators were expected to stream into Chicago in late August with various views and agendas.
