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This is an excerpt from a Salon article on Hunter S Thompson at the 68 Chicago Democratic Convention
When the Alabama delegation, led by infamous seventy-one-year-old Birmingham segregationist Bull Connor, nominated the football coach Bear Bryant for president, Thompson started bellowing down at them, “MARTIN BORMANN!”—the name of Adolf Hitler’s personal secretary and Nazi Party Obergruppenführer who for years had been rumored to have escaped to Argentina. “MARTIN BORMANN! MARTIN BORMANN! MARTIN BORMANN!MARTIN BORMANN!” he screamed at the delegates—many of them close enough to hear. In a letter a few weeks later he’d describe the moment: “The Jesuit priest sitting next to me kept me from hurling my binoculars . . . and Daley’s thugs, sitting all around me, luckily didn’t know who Martin Bormann is/was.”
When the Alabama delegation, led by infamous seventy-one-year-old Birmingham segregationist Bull Connor, nominated the football coach Bear Bryant for president, Thompson started bellowing down at them, “MARTIN BORMANN!”—the name of Adolf Hitler’s personal secretary and Nazi Party Obergruppenführer who for years had been rumored to have escaped to Argentina. “MARTIN BORMANN! MARTIN BORMANN! MARTIN BORMANN!MARTIN BORMANN!” he screamed at the delegates—many of them close enough to hear. In a letter a few weeks later he’d describe the moment: “The Jesuit priest sitting next to me kept me from hurling my binoculars . . . and Daley’s thugs, sitting all around me, luckily didn’t know who Martin Bormann is/was.”