What Was the Public's Response When Police Roughed Up Antiwar

question 47

Multiple Choice

 What was the public's response when police roughed up antiwar demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic convention? 

• A) Only older people were overwhelmingly on the side of the demonstrators. 
• B) The public was nearly evenly split in its sympathies. 
• C) The public was overwhelmingly on the side of the demonstrators. 
• D) Only younger people were overwhelmingly on the side of the demonstrators. 
• E) The public was overwhelmingly on the side of the police.

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