Folder: S.F. Protests and Picketing - 1960 - Against the House un-American Activities Committee.
Newscopy: "A crowd of several hundred massed at City hall today as congressional Red Hearings got under way again after a bloody Friday the 13th riot-ugliest here since a 1934 general strike. Sessions of the House un-American activities subcommittee were resumed in the supervisors' chambers on a relatively calm note. But police are prepared for the worst. Student leaders said they expect as many as 2000 to be on hand during the day. Police had several 'trouble spots' throughout the city under surveillance as tension mounted. Police Chief Thomas Cahill took personal command of a hand-picked squad of policemen that included 13 veterans mounted on horses vanned to Civic enter from Golden Gate Park. The 13 mounties were supplemented by 56 uniformed police and 25 plainclothes-men, plus FBI agents and Army Intelligence officers. Three patrol wagons are standing by, and the Fire Dept. has pumping engines ready to move in with high pressure hoses. In the vanguard of pre[...]."
Newscopy: "POLICEMAN GRIPS one of rioting youths at City hall with headlock as another comes to his aid with nightstick as the police quell mob at congressional hearing here."
