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Chicago Transit Authority

Prologue, August 29, 1968

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For the Within Temptation song, see Whole World Is Watching. “The whole world is watching” was an iconic chant by antiwar demonstrators outside the Chicago Hilton Hotel during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The event was broadcast from taped footage on the night of Wednesday, August 28, the third day of the convention. Demonstrators took up the chant as police were pulling some of them into paddy wagons, “each with a superfluous whack of a nightstick,“ after the demonstration blocked Michigan Avenue in front of the hotel. The prescient and apparently spontaneous chant quickly became famous. The following year, it served as the title of a television movie about student activism. Read on...

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More songs by Chicago Transit Authority (See Charts): Listen, Poem 58, Free Form Guitar, Introduction, I'M A Man, Beginnings, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Questions 67 & 68, Someday (August 29, 1968), and Liberation.

Popular in Opera (See Charts): Nessun Dorma, The Prophet'S Song, Time To Say Goodbye, Vincero, I'M In Love With My Car, Fais Ce Que Je Dis (Pas Ce Que Je Fais), Opinião, Sunny Side Of Heaven, Death On Two Legs, and Uns Versos.

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