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0 te ewer > eee OM em oe en pe NS gegen we ee Rated her “2 CG 176-31 fety of the c=ndidates for the nomination. Secret further recommended that the City of Chicago should not * waive any law, regulation or injunction currently in force to control marches and demonstrations in the city with one exception which concerned whcther a demonstration should be allowed to divide and march at the same time in two or more groups instead of one, Such division of dcmonstrators crowds would not be considcred objectionable by Secret Service, With specific reference to the march led by GREGORY on Auyist 29, 1968, Grant Park to 18th and Michigan Avenue where the march was haltcd by police and the Illinois Nationai Guard, +r. BOGGS said that those authorities acted with the full support by the Secret Service in halting the march at that point, ‘To have allowed that march, which Obviously contained peuple hostile to Vice President HUBERT YU. HUMPHIEY who had the night before been nominated for President by the Democratic Party, would have been a breech of necessary security precautions, Mr. BOGGS said concerning the march led by GREGORY that he himselit had heard GREGORY speak in Grant Park on August 2%, 1968, prior to the beyinnitiy of the march, He heard GREGORY say that he was HOing to his home and was invitiny, the crowd of demonstrators to accompany him, Jic also heard GREGORY say that when they pot to GREGORY's housc, thuse in the crowd who wanted to “could yo west" to use GREGORY's words. Mr, BOGGS said tnat west from GREGORY'’s house would obviously have been in the direction of the Amphitheatre where the final session of the DNC was in proyress. Such a march to GREGORY 's residence or to an area close to the Amphitheatre by the demonstrators could not be allowed for security reasons. The Secret Service was concerned not only with the necessity of protecting the Amphithcatre itself from possibly hostile demonstrators but also was concerned that if the march was admitted near the Amphitheatre, there would be & number of possibly hostile demonstrators in a position to stop the Secret Service motorcade, in which the Vice President would be traveling. Mr. BOGGS said that even a few persons could block a rotorcade which when halted is, of course, more vulnerable to attack by anyone wanting to do so. With reference to security arrangenaents at @ Hilton Hotel on Au;yust 28, 1968, when dcmonstrat, ,» Mr. BOGGS said that several candidates for nominat the Democratic Party were staying at the Conrad Hiltea’™ Hotel during the DNC, These candidates included Vice President -——