In what would become an iconic photo of the 1976 campaign, Rockefeller famously responded to hecklers at a rally in Binghamton, New York with a raised middle finger.
was a closeup of Nelson at the podium gritting his teeth in a kind of grin, glaring at the Goldwater supporters who were constantly interrupting his five-minute speech, and his rigid middle finger much like it is the 1976 photo telling the nearby demonstrators "F-You" -- but at the convention the finger was telling the Goldwater people "F-you and die."
After all In the words of Nelson Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer, Rockefeller said, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."
IIRC news reports said that it took 18 minutes for Nelson to deliver his five-minute speech -- that was BTW an effort to get a plank in the Party platform condemning the KKK and the "climate of hate" caused by "extremists" -- aimed directly at Goldwater and us supporters!