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Host Chuck Collins and Director Howie Samuelsohn featuring Don Sutherland, James Fonda, John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, Cheech & Chong, Vietnam War Coverage, R Crumb, Mick Jagger, Jim Croce, Joan Baez, Hakim Jamal, Harry Chapin, Buffy St. Mary & more appears in order.
Nixon was President, J. Edgar Hoover was head of the F.B.I. and Richard M. Daley was "Da Mayor" of Chicago. Soon they would be attacking our syndicated tv show, its counterculture guests, Chuck Collins and the antiwar movement.
As a kid, living in the East Rogers Park neighborhood, I would daydream about a "cool" tv show where very interesting people talked about the things that were never taught in schools. The best parts would be the unrehearsed moments where the unexpected and bizarre and often wild things would just happen on the screen where no adults were in sight . Some guests would be famous others just knew the bottom-line truth because they lived it. Always, there was the music that we stood for and cared about. All this was over the backdrop of the Vietnam War, police brutality, racism and political killings.
Fifty years later, I bring you a short documentary showing how my daydreams came true.
Howie Samuelsohn
Special thanks to our editors: Neal Gold, Carrie Lederer, Katie Berg, Christian White
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