No One Was Killed "A more valuable factual record of events than the city’s white paper, the Walker Report [Rights in Conflict] and Theodore B. White’s Making of a President combined." - Christopher Chandler, Book Week What did happen in Chicago during August 1968 when the Democratic Party staged its Convention to nominate a candidate for President and a series of confrontations - vital, often raw, at times complex - erupted between demonstrating citizens and police and Guardsmen, the Democrats among themselves, and the black community? The DNC of 1968 in Chicago has been called "the central moment" of the period. Novelist John Schultz, covering this central Vietnam era event as reporter for Evergreen Review, observed almost every confrontation in the parks, streets, at the Hilton Hotel and in the convention itself at the International Amphitheater for ten days and nights. No One Was Killed is his clear, impassioned history of what he saw and felt. ISBN: 0-9667557-1-5 310 pp., List Price: $24.95

Praise for No One Was Killed:

"Of all the book-length accounts I read of 1960’s political and cultural confrontations, none (not even Mailer’s Armies of the Night) is more lucid in its understanding of the torments and tropisms of the movements of the streets ... This is vivid writing that can stand as pure, suspenseful reportage..." -Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties

"John Schultz, in No One Was Killed, has managed marvelously to evoke what happened in Chicago and what it felt like to have it happen to you. He refuses to sluff off any of those ambiguous perceptions that amount to honesty…superior… Mr. Schultz has multiple vision and stylistic intensity commensurate with his feelings, opinions, and perceptions.... He demonstrates rather than insists on his engagement, and tracks each motive down the neural pathway to its origin, in the state and in himself... Because his account is so convincing, he is the one worth arguing with." -John Leonard, The New York Times

"An original and passionate contribution to the study of the continuing American crisis." -Jason Epstein

No One Was Killed - Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO CONFRONTATION Blocked I Am Here in Lincoln Park/ Wednesday Midnight Confrontation Attitudes	1
THE WEEK BEFORE THE CONVENTION: PREPARATORY CONFRONTATIONS Julian Bond Meets the Governor of New Jersey Cops and Media Watch over the Festival of Life Platform Committee, Hale Boggs Presiding, Faces the Nation	32
SUNDAY: OVERTHROW Chicago: The Prague of the West McCarthy Arrives and Innocence Waits on the Hilton Stairs Music in Lincoln Park/ Invocation Sunday Night/ Overthrow	68
MONDAY: THE BEAST AND THE HUNT Grant Park: Boys Capture Union General Lincoln Park: The Barricade Grant Park: Awakening in Front of the Hilton The Ritual and the Hunt	94
TUESDAY: THE DEMANDS OF REVOLUTION McCarthy Meets California Lincoln Park Citizens Meet Their Police Commander World War II Vets Meet War Resisters LBJ Birthday Party and Anti-Birthday Party Attack at the Foot of the Cross Demonstrators Meet Guardsmen Brothers	131
WEDNESDAY: WAR Vietnam War Plank The Battle at the Bandshell The Battle at Michigan and Balbo Battles in the Loop and Lincoln Park The Nation Faces the Demonstrators	163
THURSDAY: EXILE Morning McCarthy Speaks and Speaks Again To the Amphitheatre War Games	219
FRIDAY McCarthy Headquarters Attacked	276
IN THE MONTHS AFTERWARD When the Game Changes Postscript	280
PRINCIPALS OF CONVENTION WEEK	301
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	310

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