Gormlie Speaks on His Recently Published Book, ‘The May 1970 Rebellion’

On this past Saturday, Frank Gormlie, editor of the OB Rag, gave a talk about his recently published book, The May 1970 Rebellion, before a small crowd in the backyard of good friends in a home in northeast Ocean Beach.

Videographer Charlie Landon took a video of the talk and edited it some what — there were many “OB Pauses” — when the airliners passed overhead — and it’s presented here.

Gormlie’s book is available as an ebook at Barnes & Noble and Amazon and is available as well as a Print-on-Demand paperback. (The paperback is two volumes.) It’s also at La Playa Books and at the OB Library.

Gormlie spoke on why he wrote the book and listed several lessons that are valuable to us for the Trump-era.

5 thoughts on “Gormlie Speaks on His Recently Published Book, ‘The May 1970 Rebellion’ — A Video”

Any reader who makes it through the entire 38 minute vid gets rewarded with a free OB Rag subscription. Plus anyone who can correctly count the number of times the “OB Pause” was enacted gets a second free sub.

The Augusta Georgia torture story…Gov Maddox shooting black men…Jackson State, Kent State, the cop violence I saw at some of my Peace&Freedom Party stepmom’s anti-war protests in the late 60s along with the pure hate in the faces of onlookers that weren’t taking part.

And then there was the cop that swung his 6 D-cell flashlight at my head because I was a Mission Beach runaway sleeping in a construction site in the Bay Area on my way to where I didn’t know….and it wasn’t the first time I ducked and dodged one of those things.

That year has never really gone away though it somewhat slackened and was made not so obvious, just was better hidden I think but depending on what cop you ran into it sure the hell was still going on…. Why did this history been erased?

Oh come on! We both know it was BECAUSE THOSE IN POWER sure the hell didn’t want any of this to be learned by the young, the dispossessed, poor white and poor blacks etc etc etc.

The narrative doesn’t fit the goals of the wealthy, just like it doesn’t now. So what has changed? The ‘Establishment’ DID SO learn a shitload of what not to do and to be even more brutal I think. And their ex-military brutal cops have certainly put it into practice all across the country. That I’m afraid bodes ill.
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Presidents still charge into any country they want to. Of course they do, that has NOT changed! They always have a justification. Hell, Syria was just overthrown by al Queda and ISIS under a new freaking name fronting for Turkey (NATO) and the US which has been supporting and training them for YEARS…just like the US did bin Laden to fight the USSR. And another strange is that I haven’t read a single thing about the US Army base protecting the Syrian oil fields (named Camp Conoco no less!) and the US soldiers there guarding the oil being pumped out and stole from Syria then driven over the border.
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I still have my McGovern button by the way. No kidding.
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I am not going to count the number of jets. I haven’t lived under a jet overflight area since I moved from OB to the mountains half my lifetime ago. I rarely even hear one waaaaay above these mountains I live in though I can see them up there if I look. Not very many, though, and they do NOT sound like what I just heard.
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1970 was a really bad year for me, too. Nothing good happened that year at all that I can remember. Homeless at 15 was scary.

You know something, Frank? I hope some of what you said about people in the US not putting up with what Trump is going to do. But 1/5th of them are MAGATS…and these people want to use their guns on others. Just like Trump enjoys brutalizing.
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I’ve got the last of the 4th trailerload of logs to cut in the morning to get off the trailer that has to be returned so I’d best get to bed early tonight.

Oh, and it was interesting to finally here your voice, dude!

sealintheSelkirks

As you know, I work at a Navy C school command. One of our new accession students is a former Kanas City PD officer. She said those flash lights are pretty damn heavy.