Firsthand Accounts

Jean Ponder Allen: "I started screaming at the officers..." Jane Brotman: "...they were beating people up..." Jack Cipperly: "...there was a lot of yelling and screaming..." Joe Costello: "We were all scared, very scared..." Keith Hackett: "It was literally a fight for your life." Diane Sikorski Kramer: "...there was a giant hole in his stomach..." Jim Rowen: "...we were trapped..." Paul Soglin: "This was not a time to negotiate." Clark Welch: "I told my guys...'This is it.'" Choose a person interviewed in the film.

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Michael Arias
soldier

Michael Arias was delivering laundry detergent and mouthwash door-to-door in Phoenix, Arizona when he was drafted. He wound up in Alpha Company of the Black Lions, as a radiotelephone operator. In the battle of October 17, 1967, Michael Arias led a group of soldiers out of danger with the aid of a compass. In 1996, his daughter married a man whose parents were part of the antiwar movement at the University of Wisconsin in 1967.