[AGL] Fw: commie grampa

[Fontaine Maverick]

Friend Ted sent me this-there are a bunch of pix frm the riots.

http://digital.utsa.edu/cdm/search/collection/p9020coll2/searchterm/%27%27San!auditorium%20riot%20%28san%20antonio,%20tex%29!%5B1939%20august%2017/mode/all/page/1


Firemen hose mob outside of Municipal Auditorium during a riot, of August 25, 
1939.

Today the streets around San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium are  peaceful, but 
on August 25, 1939 , they were the scene of frightening  violence. An angry mob 
of 8,000 people  defied appeals to reason, police lines, tear gas and fire hoses 
to storm  the Auditorium and break up a meeting of 100 communists. Smashing  
windows, tearing up seats and hurling rocks, they reserved their  greatest anger 
for Mayor Maury Maverick , Sr., who had permitted the  meeting under the 
constitutionally guaranteed right of assembly. When  the crowd went home, when 
the debris had been cleared and reason  returned to these streets, San Antonians 
reflected on that long, dark  night. How could such a thing happen here? 

    Fontaine
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