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1968 Revisited: Cultural Clash Leaders Live Quietly Today
Chicago ten years after the antiwar clashes, Roy Lewis Ries, a seminary student harmed during the 1968 demonstrations, now lives on a farm in New Brunswick after fleeing Canada to avoid draft. Other Chicago 7 figures and prominent activists have since entered more conventional lives, though some remain involved in public issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Seminary
Roy Lewis Ries
Lincoln Park
America
Hubert H
Humphrey
Henry Steele Commager
Michigan Avenue
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Watergate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard J. Daley
Ries
Canada
River Glade
New Brunswick