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3 CG 176-31 conrio\ritt DAVE DELLINGER alsospoke during the afternoon of August 28, 1968. Whereas GREGORY made no mention of plans for organizing the marches, DELLINGER stated those Plans, which were that the crowd was to break up into three groups. One group was to form for a march to the Amphitheatre. This march was to be compktely nonviclent, according to DELLINGER, and those who believed in violence were cautioned to stay out of this march. DELLINGER said that there might be others who wanted a confrontation with the pobice and, if so, those person would form a second group. DELLINGER said he disagreed with persons who desired such a confrontation. DELLINGER then said that a third group was to say in the park. This group would be made up of children or people who did not want to run the risk of being attacked by the police. Gia -::: he felt that the possibility of such an attack by police was a real one in view of the fact that police had attacked nonviolent peace demonstrators in the vicinity of the Civic Center in Chicago in April, 1968. ABBIE HOFF so made a speech on the afternoon of August 28, 1968. wah: not hear all of the speech but what he heard of MAN'S speech convinced him that HOFFMAN had no serious purpose or belief concerning the Convention and that his speech would ‘ie: to fragment rather than unite the crowd. By this said he meant that some of the remarks made by HOFF were offensive to people in the crowd such as when he called candidates for President like HUMPHREY and NIXON "pigs." Also, he 5s that HOFFMAN himself, by his appearance, strengthened Sy opinion that he was not present for any serious purpose to speak out about the anti-war plank but rather, il: .<c.itte3 HOFFMAN with the use of narcotics although hé does not recall specifically what, if anything, HOFFMAN said on this subject. After the speeches, the nonviolent group which intended to march in the area of the Amphitheatre formed in the Grant Park area but was not allowed to march. The crowd then broke up into small] groups and alttugh some of the bridges out of the park to Michigan Avenue were closed by the National Guard, eventually much of the crowd made its way to Michigan Avenue. There was tear gas used around one of the bridges as they crossed. aor: CONFIBENTIAL