In the summer of '68, I was on my way someplace and cut through Central Park, near the SHEEPS' MEADOW, to get there and was stopped in my tracks, by what I saw. What got my attention, was a crowd of people ( sub-humans ) being trained/put through there paces, like an army, by the likes of Abbey Hoffman and the other usual suspects, on what to do and say, in Chicago. I saw and heard quite a lot and then, disgusted, went on my way to see whom I had been on my way to meet up with.
These disgusting POS had been at this "training" for months and NOTHING that they later did,later, in Chicago, was "spontaneous".
I went through Central Park in the summer of 68 too. Ran into a “ Be in” what ever the heck that was. Looked like the Circus rolled into town. I remember the trash cans had been set ablaze! Insane. I was going to a Military Academy in PA at the time, so I had a buzz cut and had to keep a low profile. I was visiting a summer girlfriend, it was fall in NYC then, when she saw my hair or lack of it, she dumped me. Oh the humanity! Did not go back through the park.