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John Cassellis:
People say, Yeah, yeah, we're guilty. We're bad. 'Cause a lot of people are afraid. They're afraid... the Negroes are going to tear up their stores, burn neighborhoods, so they have this nationwide coast-to-coast network special called Mourn the Martyr. Nobody's really on the hook, you see? When the script is finished and Tuesday comes around... National Drain-Off Week is over... everybody goes pretty much back to normal
People say, Yeah, yeah, we're guilty. We're bad. 'Cause a lot of people are afraid. They're afraid... the Negroes are going to tear up their stores, burn neighborhoods, so they have this nationwide coast-to-coast network special called Mourn the Martyr. Nobody's really on the hook, you see? When the script is finished and Tuesday comes around... National Drain-Off Week is over... everybody goes pretty much back to normal
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People say Yeah yeah We're guilty We're bad
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'Cause a lot of people are afraid They're afraid
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the Negroes are going to tear up their stores burn neighbourhoods
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so they have this nationwide coast to coast network special
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called Mourn the Martyr
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Nobody's really on the hook you see
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Man on TV Traditionally religion has supplied the moral backstop
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But when the script is finished and Tuesday comes around
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or Saturday and
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National Drain Off Week is over
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everybody goes pretty much back to normal
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Movie Summary
A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
