Bughouse Square debates, [videorecording], 2001 July.

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Bughouse Square debates, [videorecording], 2001 July.

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CAN-TV coverage of the Bughouse Square debates at Washington Square Park in Chicago. The event, a free speech forum, traces its history to the early 20th century when soapbox orators, beatnik poets, and radicals gatherd at the park. Generally, the video is a static shot of the podium with occassional cutaways to the crowd.

1 videocassette (124 min.) : sd., col. ; in.

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