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Deny Nazis publicity
Now the prospect of another possible attempted Nazi march or demonstration in Skokie looms on the horizon.
If it does indeed develop, it is devoutly to be hoped that the matter is
handled in a manner which shows we
learned something from the last time.
Specifically, and your Sunday, March
8, issue already gives grounds for pessimism on this score, it is to be hoped
that the media give extremely minimal
coverage.
It is to be hoped that village officials have nothing to say to city media,
minicam carriers, and so forth. It is to
be hoped that. they place no obstacles
in the way of any contemplated shenanigans - exorbitantly high bonds,
dubious contentions about special situations, and the like.
It is to be hoped that Jewish groups
maintain their cool (easier for me to
say than for them to do); it is to be
hoped that Christian groups do likewise. It is to be hoped (though in the
village we have no control over this)
that national militant groups opposing
the Nazis do not come to town.
Then, if there is some sort of rally,
or demonstration, it is to be hoped that
no one at all turn out for the affair,
that there be no counter-demonstration, and that the few odd-balls play to
an empty house.
All of this is probably too much to
hope. But if we do it that way, we
won’t have a replay of last time, the
Nazis will not get what they want, perhaps no film company will even contemplate a “Skokie II.”
Joseph Beaver
7818 Babb Ave.
Skokie
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Deny Nazis publicity
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Beaver, Joseph
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Editorial from Skokie citizen criticizing extent of coverage of National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) activities and recommending what should be done.
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3/22/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion -- Illinois
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Skokie Life, Sunday, March 22, 1981, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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A belated thank you
for keeping Nazis out
Dear Editor:
Before I tell you what I though of the movie “Skokie” I want to express my belated
“thank you” to all who helped keep the Nazis out of our village and parks.
I looked forward to seeing the TV movie “Skokie” to the point where I turned off my
telephone so as not to miss any of it. The Nazi swastika flag for the opening threw
goose bumps and flash backs through me. I am a Veteran of the World War II Army
Medical Corps and my patients told me stories of what they had experienced and seen
overseas. I am first generation in this beautiful country of ours, the United States of
America, and never a day goes by when I don’t thank God that my parents came her
from Warsaw, Poland My grandparents and uncle were killed by the S.S. Troppers
because they would not oblige the Nazis with food and their homes.
I guess it’s easier said than done, but I’d like to tell the “Holocaust” survivors to be
proud of your heritage and he proud to be one who survived your horrible experience.
No one and I mean no one can ever know what these poor Jews experienced. I agree
with you lOO percent on the slogan in the movie “Nver Again!“-at least not here in
America. As long as there is one left, I don’t think the Nazi group will get far. At
present, Poland is going through a survival and the determination of the good will
overcome all the bad as our Lord up above is looking out for them.
I think we have the best mayor in tbe world in Albert Smith and also our village
attorney, Harvey Schwartz. Seeing the movie gave us Skokians a chance to see who
was handling what and in what way. Getting the injunction from Judge Sullivan was
good thinking on the part of Schwartz to stop the Nazi group.
I read some critics reviews and they claim much has been overdone, etc. However,
I imagine if one-fourth of the movie told the truth it was sufficient for the people of the
U.S.A. to know what took place here in 1878. I’m glad they made the movie “Skokie.”
Now I know what took place here. I didn’t go downtown or to tbe park because I felt
they (Nazis) were not worthy of any spectators. I knew our excellent team behind our
good mayor would take care of it all. Like the man said, “Not one inch did they march
here in Skokie.” Skokie.”
Again, a belated “thank you” to all who helped keep the Nazis out of our parks and
village.
Jean Estka Berding
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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A belated thank you for keeping Nazis out
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Berding, Jean Estka
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Skokie resident thanks those who prevented the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) from marching and praises the movie "Skokie."
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11/26/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
Skokie (Motion picture)
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Skokie Review, Thursday, November 26, 1981, Pioneer Press Newspapers, Glenview, IL
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By Richard Bjorklund
Let’s go back to Square 1 in grim
game of handling Nazi march
THE MOUNTING TRAGEDY of the
threatened Nazi march in Skokie is not
what the Nazis have done but rather
what we have done to ourselves in response to their obscene mouthings.
People who
formerly stood
foursquare for
the principle of
free speech have
turned to any
means available,
constitutional or
not, to prevent
the march.
The consequence, of course,
was predictable:
BJORKLUND
A handful of Nazi
punks have had continuing worldwide
publicity for racist doctrines that millions fought to stamp out in World War
II.
Each court decision, each legislative action, each statement against the
proposed Nazi march has been reported widely in the world press. Never in
their wildest dreams could that little
band of Nazis have imagined such exposure for their hateful ideas.
State Sen. Howard Carroll (D-15th)
and State Rep. Alan Greiman (D-15th),
formerly staunch supporters of libertarian legislation, have called for the
resurrection of a McCarthy-era
“criminal libel” law to prevent the
march.
lowed to visit their venom on survivors
of the Holocaust.
Perhaps the most constructive thing
we’ve done in response to the march
threat has been to reexamine for this
generation what happened in Hitler’s
time. It is hoped that those who saw
the TV programs and other reruns of
the Holocaust will say “never again”
to Nazi butchery.
CONG. ABNER MIKVA (D-lOth),
whose very career was founded on civil
libertarianism, has publicly opposed
the march and supported actions of
Skokie village officials to prevent it.
Now comes the Decalogue Society
of Lawyers, historically in the forefront of free-speech efforts, with an endorsement of repressive state
legislation that is clearly violative of
Supreme Court interpretations of constitutional guarantees of free speech.
Even Murray Kempton, firebrand
liberal columnist for the New York
Post, says that the circumstances of
the threatened Skokie march are such
that laws should be bent or rewritten to
make sure that the Nazis are not al-
YET TO SAY “never again” is not
to automatically endorse anything that
is done to stop a Nazi march in Skokie.
Many of those who most deeply sympathize with the survivors of the Holocaust strongly believe that the march
should be allowed to happen.
They maintain this for two strong
reasons:
First a practical consideration:
So long as the march is resisted in edict and legislation, so long will the Nazi
cause get worldwide publicity.
Then an idealistic consideration:
The best way to assure that the Holocaust or something like it will come
“never again" is to hold firmly to the
l
l
deepest principles of American freedom, those principles that say that in a
free atmosphere the best instincts of
man will conquer bigotry and hatred.
If reruns of the Holocaust showed us
anything it was that Hitler triumphed
temporarily because he was successful
in hiding from the world and from vast
numbers of the German people exactly
what was happening in the concentration camps. So successful was he in
suppressing the truth that writers like
Dorothy Thompson were larely disbelieved when they warned the world of
the monstrosity that was Hitler’s Germany.
It’s time for us to go back to Square
1 in the grim game of outguessing the
neo-Nazis on the threatened Skokie
march, We’ve got to ask ourselves
what’s really important in this situation.
Confronted with that question, we
might reasonably conclude that it
would be better to let the Nazis march
under tight control to get it over with
instead of allowing our basic freedoms
to erode.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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Editor at large : Let's go back to Square 1 in grim game of handling Nazi march
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Bjorklund, Richard
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Life editor Richard Bjorklund feels that attempts to squelch the free speech rights of the Nazis have garnered more publicity for them.
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5/11/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, May 11, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Like events that inspired it, ‘Skokie’ stirs debate
Four years ago, the tranquility of everyday life in north
suburban Skokie was profoundly disturbed by a ragtag neoNazi group that wanted to demonstrate there. For more than a
year, Skokle was transformed into a legal and emotional
battlefield.
On one side was most of Skokie’s large Jewish populationincluding many survivors of the Nazi Holocaust in Europepressuring village officials to block the march. On the other
side was the American Civil Liberties Union-including Jewish attorney David Goldberger-defending the constitutional
right of free speech, even for the several dozen creeps who
composed the Nazi group in Chicago.
As it turned out, the free-speech rights of the Nazis were
upheld in court. But the group, led by a misanthrope named
Frank- Collin, ultimately decided against
marching in Skokie, thereby ending the
protracted nightmare.
Next Tuesday night these legal and
moral issues will be re-examined in a 2 ½
hour CBS prime-time docu-drama called
"Skokie." And although the movie distorts portions of what happened in Skokie
during 1977-78, it does dramatize the
viewpoints and actions of quite a few real
people-most of whom allowed their actual names to be used in the film.
DANNY KAYE
Judging from the reactions of these
people, It seems that there are two distinct schools of thought
on how well CBS portrayed the issues in “Skokie”: (1) Folks
who opposed the Nazi ‘march under any circumstances,
including most Skokie village officials, are generally pleased
with the movie, but (2) advocates of the First Amendment are
disappointed, accusing CBS of ignoring the important legal
issue in favor of the more obvious (and exploitable) emotional
angle.
THIS COLUMN contacted most of the principal figures in
the controversy. All had seen "Skokie" at various advance
screenings. Here are their reactions:
l Albert J. Smith, mayor of Skokie (who’s played by Ed
Flanders): "On the whole, I’d say it’s excellent and evenhanded. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the opportunity to meet
Flanders before he played the part, and so he could not
content captures the essence of the Skokie conflict. One must
come away impressed, and with tremendous sympathy and
understanding for the feelings of the survivors. Although
there was an attempt to capture our position, the movie
doesn’t fully convey the enormous anguish and sensitivity we
felt when we confronted the survivors. Also, some of the
language attributed to me wasn’t true.”
l Harvey Schwartz, Skokie village attorney (who's played
by Ell Wallach under the stage name "Bertram Silverman”):
"On balance, I thought it was good-not great-and I found
the second half to be very repetitive. The film did not show
the [Mayor] Al Smith I know. Al Smith has more empathy
and contact with the Jewish community than anyone I’ve ever
capture my true feelings about what took place. But I think he known. And the movie didn’t convincingly portray the legal
did a representative job. The main thing, though, is the story argument the village tried to make."
of the Holocaust survivors [in Skokie] and how they saw the
l Sol Goldstein, Holocaust survivor (who’s the basis for the
Nazi threat to march as a continuation of what took place in composite character played by Danny Kaye): “If somebody
Europe. The most moving moment for me is when Max asked me whether they should watch it, I’d say yes. But it’s a
Feldman [the Danny Kaye character] says at the conclusion. very bad movie. Not enough credit is given to the role of the
‘This time, in Skokie, I was not alone.’ "
survivors in persuading everyone to take our position. In the
beginning, most people said, ‘Lock your doors, hide in the
l David Hamlin, former Illinois ACLU director (who’s
played by James Sutorius): “The movie is factually inaccurate, basement and ignore them.’ But we made them understand
of course, and many of the inaccuracies were unnecessary and that it’s not a question of the First Amendment when Nazis
could have been put right. There are moments when it feels so come to tell Jews that they haven’t finished the job Hitler
real that it’s like a documentary to me. Then I’ll see my started.”
character begin a conversation that’s so far removed from
IN ADDITION, David Goldberger, the ACLU legal director
reality that I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. For at the time of the Skokie controversy, was so disturbed by the
instance, I’m shown equivocating about the First-Amendment CBS movie’s cavalier treatment of the events that he demandand wondering about the impact the Nazi case might have on ed that his name be removed from the cast of characters. The
ACLU membership and public relations. That’s so radically producers of "Skokie" complied. Like Hamlin, Goldberger
removed from what happened, it’s a total fiction.”
believes the movie portrays the ACLU figures as “cold,
Hamlin, now a writer in Southern California, also com- insensitive and excessively legal.”
plained about news media coverage of the Skokie-Nazi
One principal character in the Skokie confrontation couldn’t
confrontation.
be reached for his comment on the CBS docudrama. Frank
“The newspapers did enormous damage to all sides, but Collin, the former Chicago Nazi leader, is serving a prison
they walk away Scott-free in the movie. Although the term for child molesting.
newspapers sensationalized all the issues, the movie only
DEEB'S LOCAL LINE: The Chicago White Sox are expected
shows the press turning up every time Frank Collln has to decide by this weekend which radio station will win the
something to say-as if that was all they did. These subtle privilege of broadcasting all their ballgames next season.
distortions make the film very unsatisfying.”
After two years with WBBM-AM, there are strong indications
that Sox bossman Eddie Einhom might switch the team back
l A. Abbott Rosen, Midwest director of the Anti-Defamation League (who’s played by Carl Reiner): “I think the film’s to WMAQ, which had carried the games for many years.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Like events that inspired it 'Skokie' stirs debate
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Deeb, Gary
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Reactions of several of the people portrayed in the made-for-television-movie, "Skokie," a docu-drama recounting the events in 1977 and 1978 when a group of neo-Nazis attempted to hold a rally in the streets of Skokie. Includes Albert J. Smith, David Hamlin, A. Abbott Rosen, Harvey Schwartz, Sol Goldstein, and David Goldberger.
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11/12/1982
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Skokie (Motion picture)
National Socialist Party of America
American Civil Liberties Union
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Chicago Sun-Times, Thursday, November 12, 1981, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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1980s (1980-1989)
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‘Skokie’ misrepresents the people it portrays
It’s an admirable undertaking by honorable people. It
struggles to tell an important story. And the starring performance by Danny Kaye is first-rate, thoroughly credible and
deeply humane.
But the program simply doesn’t work. “Skokie,” the 2½hour CBS docudrama set for 7 p.m. Tuesday over WBBMChannel 2, contains too little drama and not enough truth. The
result is an utterly unsatisfying mishmash that flagrantly
distorts large portions of what happened during 1977-78 when
a sad-sack band of neo-Nazis
threatened to march in the
heavily Jewish north suburb
of Skokie.
Even though it’s produced
by the Outstanding company
that brought us “The Missiles
of October,” “Pueblo,” “The
Deadliest Season” and the
gut-wrenching “Holocaust”
mini-series, this latest “reality-based” production paints a
portrait of the Skokie clash
that’s neither very accurate
nor terribly intriguing,
IN THE CBS version of
“Skokie,” recent history gets
bent-and
sometimes
broken-for the sake of television storytelling. In particuDANNY KAYE
lar, some very fine persons
associated with the Nazi-Skokie controversy are depicted as far-less decent human beings
than they are.
“Skokie,” of course, purports to reconstruct the legal,
political and social battles that erupted when those several
dozen Marquette Park-based Nazis declared their intention of
wearing their uniforms and displaying the swastika in a
demonstration outside the Skokie Village Hall.
The large Jewish population in Skokie, including many
Survivors of the Holocaust in Europe, pressured village
officials to block the march. Meanwhile, the American Civil
Liberties Union, although outraged by the violent and racist
credo of the Nazis, defended the group’s First Amendment
right to free speech.
You’d think that those basic ingredients-misanthropic
Nazis, angry Jews and their many sympathizers, a beleaguered Skokie Village government and a group of ACLU
officials grimly defending the Constitutional rights of such
unspeakably loathesome clients-would be melodramatic
enough for the producers of “Skokie,”
GUESS AGAIN. For some reason, the producers decided
that the Nazi-Skokie story wasn’t sufficiently scintillating on
Its own. So they concocted some events that never happened,
put words in people’s ‘mouths that never were spoken and
altered countless other facts with self-righteous impunity. It’s
a “bum’s stew” of reality and fantasy that creates a hybrid
that can only be labeled "historical fiction."
Gary
Deeb
TV / Radio critic
For instance, executive producer Herbert Brodkin, producer
Robert "Buzz" Berger and screenwriter Ernest Kinoy pepper
"Skokie" with numerous fictitious characters. Chief among
these is Max Feldman, a Holocaust survivor who helps lead
the public outcry against the planned Nazi march.
Despite Kaye’s magnificent, heartfelt portrayal of Feldman,
the ploy falls flat. Time and again during “Skokie,” we’re
force-fed scenes of Feldman’s home life that are extremely
implausible and obviously included only to add to the emotionalism of the story.
Furthermore, in order to provide extra conflict for the TV
audience, the producers of "Skokie" have slurred the reputations of many persons, including Abbot Rosen, Midwest
executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, who wlsely
had urged Skokie residents to ignore the Nazis, thus preventing the Nazis from gaining the widespread publicity they
obviously were seeking.
But in “Skokie,” Rosen (played by Carl Reiner) is depicted
as being rather insensitive to the feelings of the Holocaust
survivors. On several occasions, he’s shown advising people to
“quarantine” themselves from the Nazis-“quarantine” being
a buzzword for the supplicant reaction of many European
Jews to Nazi persecution in the 1930s and ’40s.
"Some of the language attributed to me wasn’t true,” Rosen
told this column, “The last word I'd use in front of an
audience of survivors would be ‘quarantine.’ [The movie]
doesn’t convey the tremendous anguish we felt when we
confronted the survivors”
SUN-TIMES REPORTER Robert Feder, who was a reporter
for the Skokie Life during the tumultuous 15 months, also
believes that the CBS movie plays fast and loose with its
characterizations of many of the local figures involved.
"Al Smith, the mayor of Skokie [played by Ed Flanders],
comes off in the movie as a bland, gentile politician whose
only concern is to appease his large Jewish constituency,”
Feder declared. “In truth, Smith is a decent, humane fellow
who's been extremely popular with Skokle’s Jews for many
�years. In fact, he was viewed as a real hero by the Holocaust
survivors. He went out of his way to align himself with their
cause, and he staked his reputation on keeping the Nazis out.
“As for Harvey Schwartz [the Skokie Village attorney
played by Eli Wallach], the film makes him out to be a
bumbling nebbish dominated by the mayor. But the fact is
that Schwartz is a shrewd lawyer and a political mastermind
who calls the shots behind the scenes. Schwartz was clever
enough to keep the Nazis stalled in court for months, but he
also was smart enough to know that the ACLU would win
ultimately on First Amendment grounds.”
Feder continued: “Even the movie’s depiction of Frank
Collin [the Chicago Nazi leader] is a farce. As played by
George Dzundza, he’s a chunky fellow with a cherubic face
and a kind of childlike innocence about him. The real Frank
Collin is a scrawny runt with a violent temper and a Hitlerian
demeanor ."
THE CBS MOVIE also wreaks a lot of damage on the
ACLU. David Hamlin, at that time the executive director of
the Illinois ACLU, is pictured as worrying excessively about
the financial woes that could befall the ACLU as a consequence of its defense of the Nazis. In, reality, Hamlin and his
board of directors never blinked in their First Amendment
battle, despite their knowledge that memberships and contributions would be adversely affected.
Furthermore, David Goldberger, then the Illinois ACLU'S
legal director, is portrayed as being rather cold and aloof. He
gets very gung ho and demonstrative about the legal issues
involved, but he’s never shown grieving about the sincere
emotions and heartaches. of the Jews who despise him for
helping the Nazis. In reality, Goldberger was profoundly
haunted by this dilemma-and he still is today.
The “Skokie” movie also sidesteps the media’s sometimes
inflammatory role in the controversy. As Hamlin himself
noted in his book The Nazi-Skokie Conflict, newspapers and
TV often seemed more interested in exaggerating the Nazi
“menace” than in explaining the ideological issues.
Finally, the film ignores the considerable backlash that
occurred after the Nazi threat ended. Fearful that Skokie’s
worldwide image as a heavily Jewish enclave would hurt
housing sales and commerce, village officials dreamed up a
harebrained public relations scheme to publicize the suburb’s
“ethnic diversity.”
In summary, the producers of “Skokie” have taken a crucial
subject, fashioned it into a TV movie that millions will watch,
but in the process have given the horse-laugh to the term
“docu-drama.” Rewriting recent history for expedient dramatic purposes is bad enough, but to misrepresent the beliefs and
emotions of so many people is almost criminal.
�
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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"Skokie" misrepresents the people it portrays
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Deeb, Gary
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Review of made-for-television-movie, "Skokie," a docu-drama recounting the events in 1977 and 1978 when a group of neo-Nazis attempted to hold a rally in the streets of Skokie. Television critic Gary Deeb says that the CBS movie, "contains too little drama and not enough truth."
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11/17/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Skokie (Motion picture)
National Socialist Party of America
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Chicago Sun-Times, Tuesday, November 17, 1981, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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1980s (1980-1989)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
editorials and opinions
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Editor’s Mail
How long will Frank Collin hold Skokie as his ‘hostage?’
Human emotions are indeed very
complex. One minute they are calm
and peaceful; the next minute your
emotions make you feel as though you
are sitting by the side of a bed having
just dropped one bedroom slipper to
the floor and are waiting for the other
one to drop. Right now, my emotions
are leaning toward the latter.
I’ve just seen and heard Frank Collins make his monumental statement
that his particular group of neo-Nazis
will not march into Skokie on June 25.
This statement could not end there,
however and Collins had to send the
yo-yo down for another ride by adding
that there would be a march in Skokie
if his rights to march in Marquette
Park were ever denied. My first reaction to this statement was that of a
sense of relief because my husband
and many of our friends were going to
be part of the counterdemonstration,
and while they would be well protected, I still feared for their safety. When
the statement sank in, this sense of relief turned to disgust as I realized that
once again this human affront to the
meaning of free speech was once again
using our village as a lever or hostage
to get what he wanted.
Because I was fortunate enough to
have been born in the United States, I
never saw first hand the horrors Jews
were made to suffer at the hands of
Hitler and his storm troopers. While I
did encounter some anti-semitism
while growing up in Chicago, I never
saw members of my family killed because we were Jewish. I have been fortunate in that no one in my family or
husband’s family has ever been in the
position of being blackmailed. I have
felt a sense of apprehension because
many friends were held hostage by a
group of terrorists in Washington, DC.
about 2 years ago. Then as now I felt a
great deal of fear for their safety. The
government in Washington, like the
government here in Skokie, did not
give in to the terrorists demands and
ultimately, all who were held were released. Other than this incident, I’ve
never had to feel the anxiety one feels
when people they care about face a potentially dangerous situation because
they were Jewish or black or because
they were lucky enough to have survived a time that should have never
happened or because they lived and/or
worked in a community that has a
large population of Jews residing
there. I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve
never had to feel oppressed or in essence held for ransom until Frank Collins and his band decided to use this
village as a means to get what he
wanted at any cost.
Hurray, June 25 has been cancelled!
But, what about July 9 in Marquette
park in Chicago? And if, for some reason, Collins cannot get into Marquette
park is it back to Skokie again? According to Collins ,“Yes”! WHERE IS
THIS MERRY-GO-ROUND GOING TO
END? How long must decent, peace
loving people have to endure this affrontery to the rights of everyone to
freedom to worship as they believe and
be created equal regardless of the color of their skin.
One cannot help but wonder just
how far this small band of hate mongers would have gotten if the TV, radio and newspaper media would not
have played this march up so much.
We cannot help but wonder why the
Chicago park district suddenly
changed their policy of allowing Collins
and this band to march in Marquette
as he had done in the past. One cannot
help but feel outrage about the fact
that this particular group of approximately 20 could literally hold a normally quiet community for ransom and
blackmail a government by using the
First Amendment as its ransom note.
One cannot help but feel gratitude and
appreciation for the Skokie village officials and law enforcement officials
who gave 160% of their time and efforts to try and bring this game of cat
and mouse to a hopefully peaceful conclusion.
If any good has resulted from this
entire business, it is the brotherhood,
camaraderie or for lack of a better
word solidarity shown by the churches
and synagogues not only here but all
over the world. It is this person’s opinion that brotherhood has taken a new
meaning and will be felt throughout the
year and not for one week during the
year. And while the Frank Collins of
this world continue to spew hate and
“White Power,” those of us who want
peace can continue to speak of brotherhood and believe in God any way we
choose.
Mrs. Kay Dicker
Skokie
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Editor's Mail : How long will Frank Collin hold Skokie as his 'hostage?'
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Dicker, Mary Kay
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Letter to the editor criticizes Frank Collin and praises Skokie community.
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6/29/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Readers divided on handling of Nazi demonstration
The presence of the American Nazi
party is in itself a prod to the complacency of all men of good will. To be
permitted the right to parade anywhere in the United States is at best a
right bestowed without consideration of
past experiences and present convictions.
To permit this parade to take place
in Skokie confronts the Jewish community with the alternatives of open
retaliation or quiet humiliation. Neither is acceptable.
As feeling, loving Christians, we
pray for you in this moment of conflict
and stand with you to repudiate the
American Nazi party and all the
hatred for which it stands.
Wesley E. Diemer, Jr.
Wilmington, Del.
Smash Nazis
The following is in answer to the letter written by Lisa Woll and to all others opposing the Jewish Defense
league and other people who want to
meet the planned Nazi march with
force.
According to them, the JDL is foolish for their threats of violence. Everyone should just ignore the Nazis, stay
in their nice little protected houses, or
go to a flower-throwing counter-rally
on the other side of town. Just let them
march through the streets exhibiting
symbols and expounding ideas which
were the basis for slaughtering millions of people, including six million
Jews.
Yes, these people are the spiritual
children of the Nazis of the Holocaust,
the children who hold the same principles as the Nazis who murdered millions, murdered the kinfolk of some of
us. Can we sit and allow them to
march these same principles through
our streets? Let them, after they
slaughtered people with an evil knife,
bring it to Skokie and slap it against
our cheeks? Obviously not. This must
not be allowed. Hopefully, someone can
fathom that this is what the JDL plans
to accomplish.
All kinds of people from everywhere
should show up to oppose the Nazis
with strength. The JDL, Negro organizations (because the Nazis would like
to do the same thing to blacks), Jews
from Skokie, Gentiles from Skokie,
Jews and Gentiles from around the
whole country, and anyone with a moral bone in his body, should come and
help smash the Nazis.
The Nazis were a group of ignorant,
cruel beings during World War II also.
Should we not have “stooped to their
level of violence” then either?
Stephen Glickman
Skokie
Ghost town
My opinion on how best to deal with
those Nazi idiots is to ignore them
completely.
Make Skokie a ghost town on the
day and at the time scheduled for their
march. Have the residents along the
parade route pull down their shades
and close draperies. Perhaps that will
convey to them how unimportant
Americans consider them.
I feel very strongly about this because two of my granddaughters came
home from school last week with swastikas drawn on their notebooks. That illustrates how the publicity about the
Nazis has made an impression on
11-year-olds.
So that they would know what the
Nazi emblem stands for, both of my
sons permitted each daughter to watch
“Holocaust.”
Mrs. G. Carlson
Des Plaines
Money not wasted
It has been said that our village
leaders have wasted money in various
courtrooms defending obviously unconstitutional positions to prevent a Nazi
march. It has been reported constantly
that the case of Skokie versus the Nazis has no precedent. Corp. Counsel
Harvey Schwartz had no idea what the
outcome or even the possible outcome
of his court actions would be. It was
only when his legal challenges went
through the justice system of this country that the final outcome was clear.
No, I do not see any waste of taxpayers’ money. It might have been
wasteful if there were cases that were
the same and brought before our
courts and the judges always ruled
that ordinances were unconstitutional.
The day of the march will show
whether the village government was
right in pursuing their strategy. If
there is violence in Skokie, then this
surely will vindicate them.
Lawrence I. Cotariu
Skokie
Peaceable assembly?
There has been much discussion
about the rights of American Nazis to
march through Skokie by those who
contend that the First Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution allows them to do
so.
But the question arises whether the
American Nazi party, embracing Hitler’s doctrine of hatred for Jews and
his documented plans to exterminate
them, can peaceably assemble, as stated in the First Amendment.
Tortured arguments comparing the
Nazis to civil rights groups that assembled in spite of violent opposition, ignore the intent of the civil rights
groups - which was to assemble
peaceably for the cause of their people’s constitutional rights.
The American Nazi party’s intent is
to throw fear into the hearts of some of
the Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. They want to take advantage of
the democracy that values the First
Amendment.
No party which has a philosophy of
destruction of any segment of the
American people in the violent sense of
mass killing should have legality. Hitler’s rule enabled him to destroy not
only six million Jews, but caused the
death of millions of his own people, and
scores of millions of other Europeans.
American Nazis who openly commit
themselves to belief in Hitler and Nazism express a threat to exterminate
Jews and others. Such threats are punishable by our laws.
Abram Eisenman
Savannah, Ga.
Silent streets
Please hear my plea, good people of
Skokie:
On the day that the Nazis march
through Skokie, let there be not a man,
woman, or child on the streets of the
parade route or anywhere near it.
Close your shops and draw your
drapes.
Let them march through silent
streets. Let your silence silence them.
Let them give a parade to which no
one comes.
They feed on violence. Don’t satisfy
them.
Sondra Richter
Walnut Creek. Cal.
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5/4/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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ent
Collin pipes
and we dance
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
GOOD OLD FRANK Collin is probably doubled over with laughter right
about now.
And, ladies and gentlemen of Skokie
and the larger Jewish community, he
owes it all to you.
With your rhetoric, your announcements, your threats and your in-fighting, you’ve made it virtually unnecessary for Collin and his tiny group of
neo-Nazi followers to travel to Skokie.
When the National Socialist (Nazi)
party originally announced its intention
to rally in Skokie last October, the
voice on the tape machine at Nazi
headquarters said something to the effect that “we’re going to Skokie to see
all those Jews go crazy.”
Whereupon the Jews in Skokie went
crazy.
While Collin is buffeted about by
court injunctions, appeals and village
ordinances which keep him physically
out of Skokie, he actually is getting
more attention than a youngster at his
own bar mitzvah.
SKOKIE HAS BECOME a community with its dirty laundry on public display.
Representatives of Jewish organizations are publicly belittling one another. Well-known Jewish leaders are
-
booed by irate crowds whose ideas
don’t mesh with their own. And Skokie
residents who probably have never before set foot in village hall are making
their debuts at board meetings, praising or vilifying public officials, then
presenting and repeating their own
feelings about Collin & Company.
For practical purposes, July 4 is no
longer the date of a proposed march-it’s more likely to mark Skokie’s first
three-ring circus.
A village with 7,000 Holocaust survivors certainly can expect to see fear
and hatred and threats of vengeance.
But “Nazi panic” has reached far
beyond the survivors, becoming precocious rhetoric from 12-year-olds at village board meetings and overtones of
fascism in those like the man who
asked the board to pass an ordinance
forbidding the news media from carrying information on the Nazi activities.
IN ANY CASE, July 4, 1977, may
well be an event to remember. The invitations were sent out weeks ago, but
the refreshments won’t be much and
you can leave your tux in the closet.
Everyone will be too busy to notice
you as they seek out the host and the
guests of honor. They’re the ones in the
funny brown shirts with the funny emblems wearing those big funny grins
all over their faces.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Editorial stating that Skokie is responding just as Frank Collin had hoped and that media frenzy and national attention directed toward the march are exactly what he is craving.
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6/30/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Collin, Frank
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Comment
BY DIANE DUBEY
Will counter-march
aid Jewish survival?
LAST JUNE, I wrote a column
which was given the headline “Collin
Pipes and We Dance.”
Since then, Frank Collin has become nothing less than a virtuoso and
the collective “we” are still kicking up
our heels.
Nine months of time and energy and
money later, nothing has changed. Proposed Nazi marches continue to dominate conversation throughout the
northern suburbs. Crazy an dnot-socrazy people all over the world send in
their suggestions for turning back the
Nazi menace. And a few Skokie residents have become minor celebrities
as spokesmen for anti-Nazi sentiment.
But somewhere in the commotion,
in the rush to stifle what one Jewish
leader last year called “a group of 15
pimply adolescents,” looms a larger
question:
DOES THE CURRENT preoccupation with Frank Collin and his cohorts
really have anything to do with Jewish
survival? If 50,000 counter-demonstrators gather in Skokie to provide the Nazis with an audience, will the world be
safer for Jews? Will freedom ring
throughout the land?
The Skokie situation is totally out of
hand. It’s no longer a valid political or
social issue, but a bandwagon. When
Erna Gans and John Nimrod hold a joint press conference giving Nimrod
credit for the mass counter-demonstration proposed by heads of the Jewish
Federation, one becomes skeptical of
motives on all sides. Likewise, a
planned weeklong 24hour-a-day vigil
at Niles Township Democratic headquarters seems senseless, if not in poor
taste.
There is no virtue in mourning the
six million and learning no lesson. The
lesson of Jewish survival goes beyond
the threats of a swastika. It tells of
Russia, of Syria, of the Middle East, of
the United States.
FRANK COLLIN is not Adolf Hitler,
who quietly spread a message of hate.
Collin has already reached everyone
who can read a newspaper or flip on a
TV set, so the outcome of a Skoki cone
frontation will not affect the success of
his movement.
The destruction of American Jewry
will come not from the teachings of
Hitler but from the disinterest of American Jews, from apathy, intermarriage and assimilation.
On the worldwide front, it is no secret that the Jews of Eastern Europe
and the U.S.S.R. are not free to practice their religion or to emigrate.
This past weekend saw the slaughter of nearly 40 Israelis and the wounding of at least 80 more-by Palestinian
commandos outfitted with Russian
planes and weapons, not by the National Socialist Party of America.
How should the Jews of Skokie observe April 20, the date of Hitler’s
birthday, the day of a scheduled Nazi
march?
THEY CAN go to the synagog. Or
donate money to a Jewish charity (Mogen David Adorn, Israel’s Red Cross,
for example). They can volunteer to
work at a social service agency or bring food, clothing and housewares to
the Ark, which provides medical, legal
and survival services for poor and elderly Jews. They can contemplate the
fact that 800,000 Jews in the United
States are said to be living below the
poverty level.
They can spend an hour with their
children, reading stories of Jewish surviva1 in past centuries-perhaps the
story of Passover (this year beginning
on April 22), which commemorates
the Jewish struggle against slavery at
the hands of the Egyptians.
Or they can go stare at Frank Collin
and his friends.
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
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Former ACLU
director's book
knocks Skokie
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
AFTER READING the latest
analysis of the Skokie-Nazi conflict,
one may wonder whether being subjected to the literary version of Skokie’s 1 ½-year trauma might not be
more painful than having lived
through that period.
For those who yearn to chronicle
such episodes, perhaps the worst
thing about the neo-Nazi demonstration that never was is that it didn’t
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leave much to write about. Few legal precedents were set, no new or
surprising theories were offered by
the courts, and the damned march
never even took place.
The early months of 1979 brought
“Defending My Enemy: American
Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the
Risks of Freedom,” a creditable
work by Aryeh Neier, a Holocaust
survivor and survivor also of eight
years as national executive director
of the American Civil Liberties
Union.
Neier examined the Skokie case
by setting forth the thesis that a
small neo-Nazi movement in the United States is a positive force for the
Jewish community, a deterrent to
the expression of anti-Semitism by
more palatable groups and a constant reminder to Jews and Christians, alike, of the need to safeguard
the rights of a people which has
been through the Holocaust.
EARLY 1981 will bring another
book on the Skokie-Nazi conflict, a
book by someone so intimately involved with the 1 ½-year event that
he would be expected to add new insight to a subject already tapped by
almost every general-interest publication in the country.
But “The Nazi/Skokie Conflict,”
subtitled “A Civil Liberties Battle,”
to be published in February by Beacon Press, hardly represents the
best of which David Hamlin, former
executive director of the Illinois
ACLU, is capable.
As the weeks and months of
court battles dragged on through
1977 and the first half of 1978, Hamlin provided accurate explanations
to the press of each court’s ruling,
often giving both the ACLU and the
Village of Skokie’s side of each issue when the village chose not to
comment.
One would assume that Hamlin’s
consideration and cooperation were
reciprocated --the ACLU generally
was treated fairly in ongoing newspaper accounts of the controversy
and no complaints about the coverage were made by Hamlin at the
time.
Yet, a recurring theme of his
book and of speeches he has given
since mid-1978 is the irresponsibility
of the press and the reporters’ lust
for the sensational.
Hamlin’s book certainly is not
sensational --it is dull, if one must
find a one-word modifier - but,
ironically it reads like one lo ,
slanted newspaper article.
LIKE NEIER, Hamlin apparently sets out to show that everyone
wins when First Amendment rights
are upheld. Unlike Neier, he offers
only a week-by-week account of the
conflict, gives few interesting anecdotes and tells the readers nothing
they couldn’t have learned from
those nasty, sensational newspaper
articles.
Hamlin has no compelling hypothesis and he is not as articulate
�in print as he is verbally. But he
does show that he is not above giving the Village of Skokie a few jabs
when he gets a chance.
Skokie has had its share of socalled image problems lately, and it
takes no great intellect to add to
them. But Hamlin can’t resist:
“The village has a unique architectural style, a varied collection of
structures which might be called
‘postwar slapdash.’ Skokie grew in
the postwar economic and population booms, and the men who built
the community did so with a high
regard for the enormous housing demand at the time. To accommodate
as many buyers and renters as possible, extra buildings were squeezed
onto some blocks, a feat accomplished by placing one or more of
the buildings sideways, facing the
adjacent building.
“At the same time, the developers managed to bring several
styles to a single street. It is therefore possible to motor through Skokie passing golden arches, large red
hot-dog signs, orange and red restaurants, large well-lighted pink coffee cups, and a residential street
along which sit a natural wood
ranch, a white brick duplex, and a
three-story apartment building with
a blue and green mosaic tile facade.”
HIS ASSESSMENT of Skokie’s
political leanings is equally deprecating and, seemingly, based on
quite a few inaccuracies.
Informing readers that “a portion of the village lies in the “Tenth
Illinois Congressional District,”
Hamlin decides that “Skokie’s local
(Continued on page 3)
FORMER ACLU Executive Director David Hamlin has written a book
about Skokie’s 1977-78 struggle to avert a Nazi march in the village.
Above is a picture of a demonstration held during that period.
�Hamlin’s book is dull, has flaws
(Continued from page 1)
politics are, not surprisingly, less
bombastic and less liberal than the
tenth itself.”
Actually, all of Skokie lies in the
10th, and all but the least informed
of suburban political spectators
realize that Skokie and adjacent
Evanston provide the center of liberal politics for the 10th District,
Large margins in Niles Township, where Skokie is located, and in
Evanston Township provided former U.S. Rep. Abner Mikva with the
votes he needed to overcome the
more Republican conservative communities in other parts of the 10th
district.
Although Hamlin, perhaps for
the first time in print, says he and
ACLU attorney David Goldberger
should have been more sympathetic
to the plight of Skokie residents who
are Holocaust survivors and although his explanation of the ACLU
position is clear and rational, his
book has serious flaws.
IT IS WRITTEN as an historical
account of what happened in 1977-78,
but only the ACLU activities and beliefs have been researched and described. Goldberger is quoted at
length in each courtroom scene;
Skokie attorneys are occasionally
paraphrased, occasionally ignored.
A sarcastic and patronizing tone
throughout the first half of the book
is interrupted only for a paragraph
or two of ACLU-inspired back-patting: Sharing a “love affair with the
First Amendment,” Hamlin and
Goldberger “quickly established a
trusting, respectful relationship,
which was occasionally noisy but always harmonic.”
It is understandable that Hamlin
would laud the ACLU’s courage and
determination in defending the neoNazis in the First Amendment case
against Skokie; indeed, that organization did an admirable job which
would not have been taken on by a
more establishment-oriented agency.
But, just as the ACLU argues
that the cause of democracy is aided by the airing of all points of
view, so might the ACLU’s position
have been more compelling if equal
attention had been given to the other side.
If Hamlin had wanted only to
write about his organization’s role
in the Skokie case, he should have
done so. But once he decided to contrast the two sides, he had an obligation to document the village’s
case as well as he does his own.
For the greater part of the book,
Skokie officials and Jewish groups
opposing the march are depicted as
a bunch of lunatics who are not intelligent enough or sane enough to
understand the issues. The one exception to this characterization is
Hamlin’s interpretation of Village
Attorney Harvey Schwartz who, the
author implies, is bright enough to
understand that the ACLU position
is right, but must serve a village
full of crazies by pandering to their
fascist tendencies and trying to avert the march.
HAMLIN ALSO ACCEPTS at
face value the cast of characters
which was formed in the course of
the conflict. Before one writes a
book, isn’t it natural to examine the
motives and background of the
main characters? Is he really describing community leaders or is he
making leaders out of those who
temporarily were thrust - or forced
their way -- into positions of leadership?
Fred Richter was the leader of
"It is possible to
motor through Skokie passing golden
arches, large red
hot-dog signs, orange and red resta uran ts, large
lighted pink coffee
cups, and a residential street along
which sit a natural
wood ranch, a white
brick duplex, and a
three-story apartment building with
a blue and green
mosaic tile facade. "
- David Hamlin.
the organized Jewish community
within the village, Hamlin writes,
and a woman named Erma (sic)
Ganz (sic) was a leader of a group
called Combined Jewish Citizens.
These two individuals, along with
Holocaust survivor Sol Goldstein,
are the folks Hamlin extrapolates to
be representative of the Skokie community in 1977-78.
To this day, it would be safe to
wager that 99 percent of all Skokians do not know who Fred Richter
is. Erna Gans was president of a
B’nai B’rith chapter comprising
hundreds of Holocaust survivors,
but just who are Concerned Jewish
Citizens? Is that a group which represents Skokie Jews, or is it a
group which was convenient to refer
to because its members got a little
publicity one day? There are many
recognized organizations in Skokie
and the Chicago area which represent virtually every viewpoint expressed by the Jewish community
during the Nazi conflict. Why are
their members not quoted?
SOMETIMES IT IS BEST to let
one’s actions tell the whole story. As
an ACLU executive director, David
Hamlin’s conduct was exemplary. It
was a delight to hear him describe
his organization’s struggle against
popular opinion to defend the basis
of democracy and free speech in
this country.
His help was invaluable, his explanations totally accurate. For
nearly 1½ years, David Hamlin was
at the mercy of his organization’s
members, of reporters from all over
the world, and of hostile cranks.
He survived and the First
Amendment survived and both deserve a lot of credit. But it is sad
that, at a time when civil liberties
in this country again are threatened, when spokesmen are needed
to champion the rights of women,
minorities and the poor, David
Hamlin has retired from the public
eye and moved to California - to
become a writer.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Former ACLU director's book knocks Skokie
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Dubey, Diane
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Unfavorable review of David Hamlin's book on his involvement in the National Socialist Party of America's (Nazi) attempt to march in Skokie. The book is titled: The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle
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11/30/1980
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Hamlin, David
American Civil Liberties Union
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'Skokie' gets
mixed review
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
SPEAKING WITHOUT the self-consciousness of the officials portrayed in
the CBS docudrama “Skokie,” three
village trustees whose roles weren’t
included in the film gave it mixed reviews nonetheless.
Jackie Gorell charcterized the movie, to be aired Tuesday, Nov. 17, as
“too long” and “repetitious.” Although
the film-makers apparently tried to
present all viewpoints, she said, someone familiar with Skokie would find
the movie “very distracting.”
Gorell objected to the portrayal of
the people she knows well: “Eli Wallach was too intense (to play) Harvey
Schwartz - but who knows that except
people who know Harvey Schwartz?”
BUT THE portrayal of Skokie Police
Chief Kenneth Chamberlain in the
character of the fictional Chief Buchanan annoyed her the most.
“Chief Chamberlain is not the typical
hard-nosed, loud-mouth cop,” she said.
“He’s polite and soft-spoken.”
Proximity to the leading characters
created distractions for the other trustees, also.
Saying the film was “too long and
dragged in the middle,” Frank M C Cabe said the problem “comes when
you try to combine fact and fiction.
“People who don’t know people will
say it’s fine,” he said, calling “Skokie”
an “overall fairly accurate representation of the way I remember things happening.”
Manly Croft agreed that “certain
things don’t ring true,” but attributed
this departure from fact to the fact the
film is a docu-drama, not a documentary.
"I GENERALLY thought the movie
was pretty good, patricularly in handling the emotional issues concerning
the survivors,” he said.
Skokie’s Corporation Counsel Harvey
Schwartz, possibly the only person who
didn’t assume the village attorney in
“Skokie” was supposed to be Harvey
Schwartz, said he “didn’t inject (his)
ego into this.
“It isn’t me, the characters don’t
correlate,” he said. “It doesn’t portray
my relationship with (Mayor) Al Smith
or, for that matter, it wasn’t even entirely correct on the legal issues Skokie
was asserting.”
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie' gets mixed review
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Three Skokie Village trustees give their opinions on the made-for-television move "Skokie."
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11/15/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Croft, Manley
Gorrell, Jacqueline
McCabe, Frank
Schwartz, Harvey
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‘Skokie’
not fiction
or reality
By DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
IN TRYING to please all of the
people all of the time, makers of
“Skokie,” the CBS-TV docudrama
scheduled to air Tuesday, Nov. 17,
have ended up without the emotional
impact that
should be
evoked by a
retelling of a
neo-Nazi
group’s attempt to demonstrate in
Skokie a few
years ago.
Perhaps it is
the designation
“docudrama”
DUBEY
that results in
a film that looks at the Nazi issue
from all perspectives - those of the
village, the Holocaust survivors, the
American Civil Liberties Union and
even neo-Nazi leader Frank Collin.
But if the docudrama technique
mandates evenhandedness in presenting the viewpoints of all the
characters involved, then this technique also prevents the viewer from
relating deeply to any one character
and from feeling the frenzy that
gripped an entire village.
TO HIS CREDIT, it must be said
that “Skokie” producer Robert
“Buzz” Berger, while shooting the
movie, said he was uncomfortable
with the docudrama format that
forced him to have actors portray
real people in what almost becomes
a documentary. At that time, Berger
said he preferred making a film
based on “dramatic truth, not historic truth.”
Unfortunately, CBS officials had
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�IF you wan t no vio lenc e,
keep the Nazis out: That
is th e me s sa ge of Max
Feldman
(pl ay ed by
Dann y Ka ye ), a ' Sk ok ie '
character dr awn f ro m
several re al Ho lo ca u st
survivor s in th e vi lla ge.
‘Skokie’ screens out the emotion
(Continued from page 1)
the last word, and “Skokie” turned
out to be neither fish nor fowl, neither
gripping drama nor pointed documentary. What remains is a made-for-TV
chronicle, a didactic 2½-hour film that
may lose many viewers along the way,
while annoying those familiar enough
with the real thing to know where the
docudrama departs from the reality it
purports to present.
There is a certain thrill in seeing
parts of Skokie and other local sights
on film, but the authenticity of the setting supposedly sets the stage for authenticity of characterization, dialogue
and events, too. A fictionalized account
wouldn’t be faulted for departing from
the history books, but “Skokie” will.
SO, WHILE outsiders may be bored
by some of the legal technicalities conscientiously included to mark the progress of the ACLU vs. Skokie
courtroom battles, those who know
Skokie will pick up on the demeanor of actor Ed Flanders, playing
“Mayor Smith,” but coming across
without the concerned, soft-spoken
warmth of the real Al Smith. The village attorney, played by Eli Wallach,
isn’t called Harvey Schwartz, but we
all know he’s supposed to be Harvey
Schwartz. Why, then, hasn’t he incorporated the quiet, humorous manner of
the real Harvey Schwartz? And why
doesn’t the Flanders-Wallach combination try to approximate the interaction
Those who know Skokie will pick up
on the demeanor of actor Ed Flanders,
playing ‘Mayor Smith,’ but coming across without the concerned, soft-spoken
warmth of the real Al Smith.
that is integral to what Skokie buffs refer to as the “Mayor and Harvey
Show”?
Individually, the deviations from
reality are trivial; taken together, they
add up to 2½ hours of cognitive dissonance for the local resident who spent
1977-78 watching the drama unfold.
Why is Nazi Frank Collin, a small,
dark rat-faced man with a bad complexion, played by George Dzundza, a
hefty, round-faced blond who looks like
he’d be more comfortable sitting in
front of the TV with a can of beer than
driving to Skokie for an afternoon of
violence?
MOREOVER, WHY is Collin cast as
such a bland character that a viewer
can almost feel sorry for him when he
and his storm-troopers are turned back
by police enforcing a temporary injunction of the demonstration? Why is
a significant scene between Holocaust
survivor Max Feldman (played by
Danny Kaye) and his teen-age daughter based on the premise that he’d
miss an anti-Nazi rally if he had to
drive her “all the way to Lincoln-
wood”?
Some of the more believable scenes
are those involving ACLU director
David Hamlin ( James Sutorius) and
ACLU attorney David Goldberger
(John Rubenstein), accurately portraying the dilemma of those who love the
First Amendment but hate Nazis. Interesting, although perhaps overdramatized, is the reaction of Feldman’s
wife, Bertha (played by Kim Hunter),
a Holocaust survivor who takes threats
of a Nazi march in Skokie as proof that
“it can happen here.”
“I WANT TO GO,” a hysterical Bertha Feldman tells her husband. But she
has nowhere to go, and Max replies,
"We stay, let them go. This time is
different.”
Admittedly, “Skokie” has several
such touching moments, but it is an overly ambitious project, and thus suffers from lack of focus. Though
offering a star-studded cast, the film’s
lack of perspective plays these personalities off against one another, minimizing their individual effectiveness.
Comment
Both the docu-drama technique and
its resulting balanced approach left
“Skokie” with less impact than the Lou
Grant episode that was based-very
loosely-on the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie. If the writers director and producer of "Skokie" had
chosen to make a statement, rather
than film with reporter-like objectivity,
their docu-drama could have been a
very powerful TV movie. Certainly,
they had an obligation to be fair to all
sides, but they weren't required to
abide by the equal-time doctrine. Unfortunately, they did.
Speculation has focused on whether
the Skokie-Nazi affair ultimately will
be remembered in the real or film versions. That concern no longer is viable.
“Skokie” will provide an evening of
fun for area residents eager to nitpick,
and will offer generally accurate information to those interested in learning
the sequence of events surrounding the
march that never was.
But for all its general historic accuracy, “Skokie” is devoid of the emotional pitch that ran so high for almost
two years. Orchestrated crowd scenes
and corny shots of Jewish Defense
League members dancing the "hora"
don’t reflect the unpredictable spontaneity that prevailed throughout the
entire episode.
“Skokie” isn’t Skokie.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Review of made-for-television movie "Skokie" about the National Socialist Party of America's (Nazi's) attempt to demonstrate in Skokie in 1977 and 1978. Includes photograph of Danny Kaye.
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11/5/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Kaye, Danny
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Take a crack at first
Collin trivia contest
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
WHEREAS Frank Collin and his
group of neo-Nazis have chosen not to
demonstrate in Skokie; and whereas I
have been stripped of the most significant single news story of my career;
and whereas I am understandably despondent and despairing; therefore let
it be resolved that I shall not attempt
to provide information or clarify issues, but that this week it well be the
duty of our readers to answer my questions; and that this column shall henceforth be known as the 1st annual Frank
Collin Memorial Trivia Contest; and
that whosoever can answer all of the
following questions shall receive a
guarantee that no uniformed Nazis will
parade down his street unless accompanied by at least 50,000 representa-
tives of the Jewish Federation led by
State Sen. John Nimrod.
l Did anyone really believe that
the Nazis would have the nerve to show
up in Skokie?
l What is the name of the south suburb where Frank’s father lives?
l Does David Goldberger, the Nazi’s ACLU legal counsel, have a bright
future in constitutional law? Does he
have any future?
l Does ANYONE really believe
that 7,000 former concentration camp
inmates live in Skokie? (Ten extra
points to the statistician who answers
that.
l How many picnics were held last
year in Birch park?
l Who is Stu Feiler and why is he
saying all those terrible things about
Buzz Alpert?
l Whatever happened to plans of
the Jewish Federation to introduce a
holocaust studies program throughout
the community and particularily in the
Skokie schools?
l How many of those who planned
to protest in Skokie will care enough
about a Nazi threat to protest in Marquette park?
l Do the people of Skokie owe a big
thank-you to representatives of Aaron
Cushman public relations firm who
claim that they reduced the amount of
publicity on the Nazi conflict by 150%?
Is it really possible that there could
have been any more coverage of this
issue?
l Why did black leader Jesse Jackson wait until the Skokie march was
called off before forming a coalition
against the Nazis with Skokie Jewish
groups?
l Why didn’t Meir Kahane and
Bonnie Pechter come to Skokie at the
same time so we could figure out what
was going on between them?
l Why did the Rev. Tom O’Connor
rip off his Skokie Spirit button when
village officials were unable to cancel
the Sunday Nazi march which he
claimed would have interfered with his
freedom of worship?
l With so many people commenting
on a new unity among Jews, have area
synagogs registered any significant
increase in membership?
l How many of his angry critics
have ever met ACLU Executive Director Dave Hamlin?
l What was the favority topic for
program chairman of Jewish organizations this past year? How many forums on Nazism were held in the area? How many different angles on the
issue were developed?
l Is Skokie’s trouble with the Nazis
really over?
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Take a crack at first Collin trivia contest
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Dubey, Diane
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Reporter summarizes opinion of National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march conflict in the form of a trivia quiz.
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6/29/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, June 29, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Was it the
mayor vs.
the Fonz?
BY DIANE DUBEY
Staff Writer
RICHIE AND the Fonz proved it
once and for all: They are more popular than Mayor Al Smith and a
would-be Harvey Schwartz clone
named Bert Silverman.
So are Laverne and Shirley, who were
presented Nov.
17 in a typically zany halfhour focusing
on Shirley’s
unwilling involvement
with a bank
robber.
And so it
DUBEY
went. Despite
heavy network promotion and an
apparently compelling topic, the
CBS-TV docu-drama “Skokie”
trailed the ABC comedy lineup in the
Chicago metropolitan area, attracting only 28 percent of the viewing audience, according to Nielsen ratings.
REEL LIFE AND REAL LIFE: Actors in full combat attire carried the banner
of the Jewish Defense League for the benefit of cameras filming the TV docudrama “Skokie” (photo at left) while, at right, former LIFE reporter Robert
Feder watches from a second-story window at Skokie Village Hall as crowds
prepare to “greet” a group of neo-Nazis who had announced plans for a demonstration on April 30. 1977. The Nazis only made it as far as the Touhy Avenue
exit on Edens Expressway, however, where they were turned back by police
carrying a temporary injunction against the rally.
JUST OVER 1 million Chicagoarea viewers tuned in to the heavily
hyped 2½-hour film, joining some
24.8 million who watched in other
parts of the country. But, although
the numbers sound impressive, the
film drew only a 24 percent share nationally, attracting more viewers in
the New York City area but fewer in
the Los Angeles area than Chicago’s
28 percent.
Is this surprising? I’m not sure.
To put things in perspective a bit,
the film’s 24-percent share of the
national audience is not very high,
particularly for a highly touted program like “Skokie.” When the net-
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works take a look at the Nielsens to determine which programs they’ll keep
and which should be axed, the breakeven point for an ongoing series is
about 28-29 percent.
If nothing else, examination of these
figures can help us to look honestly at
ourselves. our responses during the
1977-78 period of a threatened Nazi
demonstration, and our assessment of
the film “Skokie.”
NETWORK REQUIREMENTS notwithstanding, 24 percent of a national
viewing audience is a lot of bodies. But
the year and a half during which Skokie was perceived as under siege by
neo-Nazis was was an intense experience, a period during which one issue
took precedence over all others on the
local scene. It was a time when virtual-
ly every week-night and most Saturday
evenings and Sunday afternoons offered at least one panel discussion on
the Nazi threat. Few local residents
didn’t, at one time or another, attend
some meeting or program or rally that
featured a Holocaust survivor speaking
movingly of the losses he suffered at
the hands of the Nazi animals.
SO I’M not sure quite how to judge
the absence of interest on a larger
scale.
Everyone I know tells stories of trips
to other states - or even other countries - with the inevitable punchline of
meeting someone who said. “You’re
from Skokie? Isn’t that where the Nazis want to march?”
At first glance at the ratings, I figured these people had lost interest,
that time had dulled the interest of all
the letter-writers whose correspondence had convinced Skokie’s Mayor Al
Smith that his concerns were shared
by decent people around the world. After giving the matter more thought,
however, I realize that these were the
TV watchers who made up the 24 percent. It is astounding - and upsetting
- but the other 76 percent probably
never gave a damn about Skokie or
Nazis or Holocaust survivors in the
first place.
It’s just that a lot of people really
don’t care. I figured viewers throughout the Chicago area would be glued to
their sets, if only to catch glimpses of
familiar places. Personally, I thought
the most exciting thing about “Skokie”
was seeing the real-life Skokie on TV.
But others apparently didn’t agree.
What it comes down to is that the
Skokie-Nazi years never had the impact many of us thought they had had
outside the Skokie area. In terms of the
lessons of history, this seems regrettable. But on the positive side, nearly 25
million people watched the story of a
community wrenched by the very idea
of a demonstration by those who stand
only for hatred, elitism and murder.
There’s no doubt now that more
Americans would rather watch
“Three’s Company“ and “Too Close
for Comfort” than a retelling of am
emotion-laden incident that could happen in their own communities. But,
putting artistic criticism aside,
“Skokie” drew 25 million viewers who
apparently were willing to forego an
evening of one-liners in exchange for a
show that promised a message.
That’s a start.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Was it the mayor vs. the Fonz?
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Dubey, Diane
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Columnist Diane Dubey discusses the Nielson ratings of the made-for-television movie "Skokie." Includes photograph of actors playing activists in the movie and photograph of actual Skokie demonstrators.
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12/3/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
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Skokie Life, Thursday, December 3, 1981, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Holocaust could occur again-possibly in U.S.
Personal view / Yechiel Eckstein
WHATEVER ELSE may be said about the TV show “Holocaust” and the reaction to the Nazi-Skokie issue, one thing is
clear: These two events raised the consciousness (and won
the sympathy) of millions of Americans who previously were not aware
of the scope of evil and human suffering characterized by the term
Holocaust.
Also, they stimulated a good deal of
soul-searching. Millions asked themselves, many for the first time, whether our society had finally learned from
the cataclysmic Holocaust that silence,
apathy and a business-as-usual philosophy are not a form of response.
Many agonized over whether a similar
event could occur again, perhaps here
in America. Jews asked Christians,
RABBI YECHIEL and Christians asked themselves, what
their response would be if Jewish life
ECKSTEIN
in America were threatened.
Many, both Christian and Jew, sought to resolve these
quandaries by pointing to the tremendous outburst of Christian support for the Jews of Skokie, The Christian show of
solidarity, they felt, clearly demonstrated that the response
would be far different from that “offered” in World War II.
Jews would never again stand alone.
To be sure, much has changed in the relationship between
Christians and Jews in the last 30 years. Official Catholic
and Protestant statements strongly condemn all forms of
anti-Semitism. The Jewishness of Jesus has been rediscovered. Christians have initiated Holocaust services and even
have come to sanctify the insistence of Nazi victim Deitrich
Bonhoeffer-a Lutheran theologian-that blind obedience to
the state can be idolatrous.
Yet, the United States is not Nazi Germany. Frank Collin
is not Adolf Hitler. We must ask ourselves: Is the outburst of
Christian sentiment for the Jews of Skokie a valid, indication
of their response if their own lives and the lives of their
families were jeopardized by their support? Has Christology
been universally and totally expunged of its anti-Jewish biases? If not, could these feelings surface under certain social,
economic and political conditions? Finally, could Jews rely
on Christian martyrdom? And could non-Jewish minorities,
if they were threatened, rely on Jewish heroism?
WHEN OUR OWN LIVES are threatened, we all react in
different ways-and possibly not the way we anticipated,
Our lives, for the most part, revolve around our own interests, problems and preoccupations. And the concerned individual, facing massive and indifferent bureaucracy, often
feels impotent. Given all this, what can we expect of the
American people if Jews or any other minority were threatened with genocide?
Our society has not yet begun to address this question,
The Holocaust and other instances of genocide are not being
taught in our schools, and the moral implications of these
events are not being absorbed by the next generation. The
disease of anti-Semitism has not yet been eradicated the fear
of the “foreigner” has not yet dissipated and true respect for
religious, ethnic and racial diversity is still somewhere down
the road.
What happens to our morality in crises? Who and what
are deemed expendable during an oil embargo, an economic
depression or prolonged periods of unemployment? Israel,
Jews, blacks, Latinos? Despite the Holocaust, Vietnam and
Watergate, don’t we still tend to give blind obedience to authority? Couldn’t we just as blindly obey authoritarianism?
How energetically are we opposing the current genocides in
Uganda and Cambodia, or the racial and religious bigotry
and violence in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and South Africa?
I BELIEVE THAT MAN IS NOT inherently evil, but he
does have the potential and perhaps even the propensity for
it. I don’t believe that a Holocaust of Jews or any other minority will occur in the United States, but I recognize that it
is not beyond the realm of possibility. Given the right circumstances, decent and ethical people-Jews, Christians,
other Gentiles-can be swayed to the point of “each for himself.” No religious, ethnic or racial group is immune to becoming either the victim or the practitioner of hatred and
violence.
None of us should be fooled into believing that, through
the TV show and the Nazi threat to march in Skokie, we
have spiritually and culturally leaped from raised-consciousness to moral conscience. The truth is that we have only just
begun to ponder the questions crying out to us from the
ashes of Auschwitz.
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein works in education and inter-religious activities for the Chicago office of the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B'rith.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Holocaust could occur again -- possibly in U.S.
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Eckstein, Yechiel
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Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein discusses issues raised by television program "Holocaust" and the National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie. Includes photograph of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein.
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9/5/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion -- Illinois
Eckstein, Yechiel
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From across America: Ignore Nazis
Editor’s note: In light of Holocaust
week and the national attention that
Skokie has gained because of the attempt by Nazis to stage a demonstration in the village, we present excerpts
from letters we have received from
throughout the country on the matter:
It is our fervent hope that the good
people of Skokie will rise to their challenge. We hope that perhaps the heritage of wisdom and understanding will
prevail.
Those who watch from a distance
(but many of whom are with you in
spirit) hope that you will do something
positive, something contributory,
something representative of what was
once the “world’s largest village.” If
others insist on their right to be idiotic,
we hope that you will give us something to remember our birthright to be
free: A “Skokie Fest,” a “Freedom
Day,” or a “Day of Understanding.”
Don’t let hate and ignorance live in
Skokie. Many of you saw what they did
to Nazi Germany. Instead of fighting
fire with fire, we implore you to fight
fear (of others) with understanding (of
self and others). Do something to make
us proud of Skokie.
Bruce A. Eller
Lindenhurst, Ill.
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Hold it on the opposite side of town
from the proposed parade - not just a
prayer service, but a memorial and celebration of life. Invite everyone make it truly ecumenical. Remember
the dead, pray for them, honor them.
Pray also, if the people of Skokie can
possibly manage it, for the bigots across town.
Let the Nazis have their tacky parade. The rest of the town doesn’t have
to watch. They can be dancing in the
streets.
Mary L. Linstrom
Greenbelt, Md.
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Ignore the Nazis! Little people who
must hate because thy cannot love
want attention. Ignore them!
When the Nazis march in Skokie,
stand on the street with your backs to
them, with no sound. Stay at home and
let them march up and down the street
in a silent atmosphere. Throughout the
world, violence is used; now is the
time for the role of silence to be understood as a symbol of rejection of violence and those who use it.
Many eyes will be on Skokie. Let
them see a new scene - the aggressor
ignored; the silent, victors.
Georgenia Irwin
Claremont, Cal.
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I hope the people of Skokie stop the
Nazi parade by appeals through the
courts. But in the meantime, as an alternative, the citizens of Skokie should
plan a memorial service for the victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
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The choice is clear. Don’t let hate,
revenge and the passions of 30 years
ago deny anyone (you or me or them)
of their civil rights, regardless of how
inappropriate it seems. Give them tbe
hour to march and during that hour everyone simply turn his back in quiet
neglect. Remove your opposition and
you remove the focus of attention. Remove your opposition and you remove
the passion of a news story for the media.
Take this opportunity and pull the
plug on their publicity. Quietly grant
them the permit to march and just as
quietly ignore them, if they do. Once
permitted, they may decide against it.
Why march if no one will televise or
notice?
As long as you censor them, they
will seek (and with certain success)
their American rights, They’ll not likely be noticed if left alone. But if persecuted, they will be generally noticed by
everyone - and, my dear friends, that
is what they want.
Ron Grow
Elmhurst, Ill.
The Nazi parade route should be
lined not by an angry mob, but by adults dressed in black who systematically turn their backs as the marchers
approach each block. Not a contest of
strength, but a statement of dignified
protest.
I am concerned that Skokie makes a
peaceful dramatic reply to the marchers. A reply that will show the world
the proud heritage of the Jewish people
and the strength of our inherited heritage - a nation that can contain all the
freedoms, for all the people, even when
the ideas exhibited are shared bv the
smallest minority.
Doris DiGiorgio
Bayside, N.Y.
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nationwide publicity such as it wanted
and has given impetus to the formation
of likeminded groups in other parts of
the United States.
My second objection is legal. Our
founding fathers provided that what is
meant by any part of the Constitution
or its amendments should be decided
by the courts - not by you, me, or any
other individual - not even the President of the United States, not by police,
army, navy, air force, or marines, not
by state or national legislature or village board.
If and when the Nazis march in Skokie, will the people of the village
choose to be governed by emotion or
by law?
James S. Ayars
Urbana, Ill.
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Barbara K. Dowling
Harrisburg, Pa.
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I have two principle objections to
the Skokie handling of the projected
Nazi march. The fist is strategic. The
Skokie opposition to the march has
provided a small group of Nazis with
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Those insensitive dredges of society
plan to march in your town, on your
streets, by your homes. That they are
permitted to do this is unbelievable, ludicrous and sick. But march they will,
so here is my plan:
What is the greatest put-down of
all? To be ignored! Oh, what fun! On
the day of the march, do not leave your
homes. Make Skokie a ghost town for
the day. Stay inside - pull your shades
and srapes - let the marchers see no
one !
If you could help the people of Skokie pull this off, you will go down in
history.
Can’t you just picture those misfits
getting all spruced up for their parade
- pinning on their arm bands, cleaning their swastikas practicing their little goose steps, prancing and strutting
for nothing and no one? Oh, I l o v e it! I
wish I could be there.
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This is a test of our courage and
principles. Each of US in our own
hearts and minds must not let curiosi-
ty, anger, vindictiveness, or hatred get
the best of us. Rather we should stay
home or if we have the strength, we
should confront the demonstrators with
a street lined With people who turn
their backs to them as they pass as a
sign of utter contempt and disinterest.
To meet them with violence or anger is to show them they mean something worth our concern. And they do
not.
Diane P. Nelson
Skokie
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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From across America : Ignore Nazis
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Eller, Bruce A.
Irwin, Georgenia
Grow, Ron
Ayars, James S.
DiGiorgio, Doris
Dowling, Barbara K.
Nelson, Diane P.
Linstrom, Mary L.
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Excerpts from letters to the editor reacting to and supporting Skokie following national attention gained because of attempted National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march.
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4/20/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, April 20, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Visit Auschwitz first
When I left Chicago in February to spend
25 days in Poland on an educational exchange, I had taken a very academic stand
on the Nazi march in Skokie. As long as no
violence occurred, an American Civil Liberties Union contributor such as myself could
take no stand other than to encourage the
use of freedoms to which we subscribe. Now
that I have returned, I have undergone a
change. I have visited Auschwitz.
The world has preserved the dove and the
olive branch as symbols of peace and goodness. In the same convention, the swastika
and the label “Nazi,” with all their attendant
concepts, should become symbols of war and
evil.
I am not a sentimentalist, nor was I
unread of the atrocities committed in the
Nazi concentration camps, but I was not
prepared-and hope that I will never be
prepared-to accept the evidence of the
incredible inhumanity that was perpetrated
under the symbol of Nazi Germany. A tour
through Auschwitz should be a part of the
education of every person throughout the
world. That it happened is a nightmare. That
it could happen again has no description.
If you ask me now, “Should the American
Nazi Party march in “Skokie?” my response
is, “Never.”
If a group of distorted individuals want to
walk around with signs saying that they
hate Jews and blacks, such is their right. But
if they flaunt the symbol that has been
associated with the vile and inhumane acts
to which Auschwitz stands witness, they are
advocating the violation of humanity, and
the violation of humanity should have no
protection in any city, state or nation in the
world.
Philip E. Freedman
Associate professor of psychology
University of Illinois
at Chicago Circle
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Visit Auschwitz first
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Freedman, Philip E.
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Letter to the editor regarding American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) defense of National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) and their right to demonstrate in Skokie.
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4/16/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion -- Illinois
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Chicago Sun-Times, Sunday, April 16, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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Skokie’s treason
The Skokie government can be justifiably proud of its many accomplishments to be recognized as an AllAmerica City (The LIFE, Aug. 31). But
to “use” the “citizens’ anti-Nazi fight”
borders on treason.
I was one of the many who wrote to
Skokie Mayor Albert Smith objecting
to the march. In my Jan. 31st letter, I
asked that if the endeavors fail, was it
possible to obtain an injunction against
the rabbi who said that he would
‘guarantee” trouble if they would
march.
In that connection, I wondered if the
courts would consider the village board
as co-conspirators if they did NOT do
everything possible to stop a riot. As
an answer, our government tried to
circumvent the court’s constitutional
ruling by virtually inviting anti-Nazis
to Skokie.
Instead of All-America City, the
mayor should be cited for being an AllAmerica politician. Just when he
should have been objective about the
problem, he accepted an anti-Nazi
group’s man of the year award!
Now that the village has resurrected a dead horse, maybe they can answer a few questions. When the Nazi
group was awarded a permit an antiNazi group was also awarded a permit
to have a counter-demonstration on
Nilehi District 219 property. Did the
school board ever vote to give them
permission?
Although I am reluctant to admit it,
the American Nazi party does not have
a history of starting a riot, whereas the
anti-Nazi elements do. Therefore, why
did the government plan to close down
the village business district to its own
residents rather than seek an injunction against those individuals who
“guarantee” us trouble and those who
plan to spill blood on our streets?
Finally, in 1977, I wrote the mayor
asking why the police considered it
necessary to confiscate several items
from people who crossed state lines to
attend a meeting prior to the planned
march (The LIFE, July 21, 1977). In
answer, corporation counsel stated:
“Our police are also in contact with
state and federal authorities to insure
against violation of applicable state
and federal laws...”
If a riot had ensued, would they
have been guilty of a federal crime by
participating in a riot?
Albert C. Geimer
Skokie
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie's treason
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Geimer, Albert C.
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Skokie resident criticizes Mayor Albert Smith.
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9/7/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Nazis and Skokie: incredible morality play
Georgie
Anne Geyer
WASHINGTON - If the demonstration had not been canceled Thursday night, a large group of American Nazis
would have marched through the pleasant, mostly Jewish
suburb of Skokie, Ill., this Sunday. As they moved past the
houses of the people there, many survivors of the concentration camps, they would have spoken, shouted, provoked and
given out literature to celebrate-two months late-the
birthday of Adolf Hitler. And all of it would have been
protected by precisely those First Amendment rights that
they would so wantonly destroy if they could.
That, at least, was the picture given out by the press, and
this had stirred emotions in many to the level of terror.
THERE IS ONLY ONE TROUBLE. Much of it wasn’t true.
And I have to say as a journalist that, if there had been
trouble Sunday, we in the press would have borne some
responsibility for it. M y purely emotional feeling has been
that the Nazis should not have been permitted to be in
Skokie. Most countries of the world have laws against either
group libel or advocacy of genocide.
But . . . the Nazis were not going to “march through
Skokie,” as almost every article said. They were going to
wear the heinous uniforms we all hoped died in the bunkers
of Berlin, but they were not going to speak a word. Indeed,
as they circled for only a half hour in front of city hall, they
would have engaged only in what is called “symbolic
speech” - uniforms and signs. Legally, it is a form of speech
also protected by the First Amendment in the same manner
as wearing arm bands during the Vietnam War.
I HAVE TO THINK THAT SOME of the inner and outer
terror the once-victims of Skokie have been put through
might not have occurred were it not for the incredible
overwriting of this emotion-ridden story.
As Executive Director David Hamlin of the American Civil
Liberties Union in Chicago says, “If I see the 'march through
Skokie’ one more time, I’ll scream. To a great extent, the
things people have feared have come from the stark relief
way in which the press has perceived it from the beginning.
A simple little Nazi demonstration was not enough.”
The ACLU lawyers, many of whom are themselves Jewish
and thus have suffered a particularly exquisite torment, have
convinced me that even Nazis, as disgusting as they are,
have the right to “symbolic speech.”
But what, I have kept asking myself lately, about the kind
of anti-group libel law or anti-genocide law which other
countries enjoy? Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal touched on
this when he visited Chicago recently, saying, “You need
what we have in Europe-a law against racial hatred.”
But Hamlin persuaded me against this. “The group libel
law [that the Illinois Legislature was considering] would
also sweep up the Bible for decrying the Jews who left the
fold, Shakespeare because of Shylock and, if it didn’t get
Randy Newman’s ‘Short People,’ it would surely get his
‘Rednecks.’”
WHY NOT A LAW against the advocacy of genocide?”
“My difficulty here,” Hamlin says, “is that then I can’t see
my enemies. As it is, I know where they are. The enemies
I’m afraid of are the ones I can’t see. The minimum would be
to drive them underground. Also, you see how loosely all of
this can be applied in the UN.” He paused. “It has been said
that Zionism is the equivalent of racism; in effect, that
Zionism is ‘group libel.’ Do we want that?”
When it is all played out, what will be left behind is the
memory of an incredible morality play: young Jewish ACLU
lawyers acting out their lives in the best tradition of The
Book and The Law against precisely that other atavistic
primitivism that is always there, too, lurking in the mold and
shadows, to destroy civility and civilization.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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Nazis and Skokie: incredible morality play
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Geyer, Georgie Anne
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Opinion on press coverage and moral and legal issues surrounding the planned National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march.
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6/24/1978
Subject
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Assembly, Right of -- Illinois -- Skokie
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Press coverage
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
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Chicago Sun-Times, Saturday, June 24, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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HRC takes stand
on Nazi march
EVANSTON-The Evanston Human
Relations Commission (HRC) was established to help create a community where
all individuals have an opportunity to grow,
to participate and to share to the best their
ability in every aspect of community life.
The underlying assumption of such a mission is the intrinsic value placed on each
and every individual human being. We are
called to care about and to serve everyone,
giving special attention to those whose
human rights have been historically ignored or are presently in jeopardy.
A situation currently exists in our area
which addresses both our community goals
and the humane value which underlie
them. The proposed demonstration in
Skokie by a small group of Nazis shows us
that hatred, fear, vengence and outrage
persist in our society, and probably always
will. Such emotions have been inflamed to
a new intensity by news coverage and will
doubless be inflamed still further. The
challenge to us in such an environment is
to develop a plan for coping with the shortcomings of our world-not by reacting to
crises, but by activing positively on the
basis of our humane values. Three levels of
thoughtful action are suggested:
*As individuals, we need to search our
own hearts for any remnant of racism, sexism, or any other -ism which discriminates
o the basis of irrelevant persoal characteristics. Individually we need to challenge
ourselves to grow, to expand our vision,
and to take affirmative action in caring for
all people. In the present situation, for
those who wish to express openly their
care and concern, such affirmative action
might include sending personal statements
to Skokie residents and leaders, explaining
their opposition to Nazism and similar
movements; it might include wearing armbands, displaying the Star of David, as we
go about our usual business on the day of
and take whatever constructive and rethe Nazi demonstration; or it might insponsible action the situation allows.
clude attendance at a solidarity rally...well
Jill W. Graham
before he Nazi demonstration later in the
Human Relations Commission
spring.
(Editors note:The preceding letter is a
*We should also ask those who are close
position statement the HRC passed at a re-r e to us personally to consider the conflict becent meeting.)
tween prejudice and caring for all people.
Family and friends can support one another in their mutual efforts to identify and
eradicate their own prejudices, and search
together for affirmative ways to act out
“valuing all people.” Instead of listening to
extensive news coverage of the Nazi
demonstation, families might spend the
time together discussing their own values
and goals for the community. Children
learn best by mimicking their elders, so
our individual and group behavior is crucial in establishing the norms and expectations of the next generation.
*Larger groups to which we belong also
need to be challenged to take constructive
action in building a better community. On
the day of the Nazi demonstration, houses
of worhip might be opened as sanctuaries
for those in ned of spiritual refuge. Schools
might include discussion of the issues
raised by the demonstration in appropriate
curricula. The news media should recognize and deal responsibly with their potential for making doomsday prophesies self- selffulfilling.
Community groups of all kinds should
take this opportunity to lead in their affirmation of and rededication to the values
and vision of a humane community. Silence
or preoccupation with day-to-day tasks,
when the values which underlie our society
are being threatened, is a lost opportunity
to reaffirm what we are for. Not whom we
are for (or against) but what. What are our
values, our goals, our vision? Those things
can be said at any time, but they are usually not heard unless they are at issue. Let
us speak out now on those questions, encourage all citizens to consider the issues,
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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HRC takes stand on Nazi march
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Graham, Jill W.
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The Evanston Human Relations Commission (HRC) recently passed a position statement which comments upon the proposed National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie.
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4/6/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Evanston Human Relations Commission (HRC)
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Skokie Life, Thursday, April 6, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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editorials and opinions
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Mikva’s wrong
on Nazi march
Personal view / Franklyn S. Haiman
THE RECENT STATEMENT by Rep. Abner J. Mikva on the
proposed Nazi march in Skokie has put me in a position of
deeply divided loyalties. As a constituent, adviser and friend, I
am a devoted supporter of the congressman, and I intend to
work again for his re-election in November.
As a First Amendment scholar, however, and a national
officer of the American Civil Liberties Union, I am in sharp
disagreement with the views he has
expressed on the Nazi issue.
I share Ab Mikva’s revulsion for
everything represented by these selfstyled Nazis who seek to march in
Skokie, and I share his sympathy for
those Skokie residents to whom the
sight of a Nazi uniform recalls the
nightmare of Hitler’s Germany. I believe he is wrong, however, in thinking that such a march can be constitutionally prohibited, and in holding out
hope that our courts may properly find
a way to stop a demonstration by
these people.
FRANKLYN S. HAIMAN
Understandably revolted by the
prospect of a Nazi presence in Skokie,
the congressman has joined with many other respected opinion
leaders across the country who seek to find loopholes in the
First Amendment to justify preventing the march. These
leaders all start out from the indisputable premise that
freedom of speech is not absolute-that one may not falsely
cry “fire” in a crowded theater or solicit others to engage in
immediate lawless action. They proceed to suggest a variety of
other real or imagined exceptions to the First Amendment that
might apply to this march-that it may be stopped because the
government is entitled to impose time and place regulations on
speech, and the Nazis can go some place other than Skokie;
that the government may ban Nazi uniforms (or Ku Klux Klan
sheets), because these symbols strike terror into viewers or
inflict emotional distress upon them; that the government may
prohibit the march because the purpose and effect of the Nazis
would not be to express a point of view but to incite a riot.
The First Amendment would be unrecognizable if these
arguments were accepted. Time and place regulations on
communication are only for such content-neutral purposes as
keeping the streets clear for traffic during rush hours or
holding the volume of public address systems to a reasonable
level. Wherever their effect has been to ban totally the
expression of a particular point of view from an entire
community they have been, and should be, struck down as
unconstitutional.
The notion that offensive speech or symbols may be
censored because of their psychological impact on an audience
that is not forced to be present would, if accepted, cut the very
heart from the First Amendment. There is no limit to
communication that could be prohibited because some who are
exposed to it feel emotionally outraged or terrorized. Books,
movies, speeches, televison documentaries might all fall afoul
of such a boundless doctrine. The authors of our Constitution
had the wisdom not to open that door. We must not destroy
what they created, and what our courts have reaffirmed,
because a handful of sociopaths in monstrous costumes want
to parade for 30 minutes in front of the Skokie Village Hall.
Whether these Nazis want to get themselves bloodied in
Skokie, whether they seek to exploit the situation for all the
publicity they can get, or whether they wish to try to prove
that their adversaries are as much devoted to violence and as
little to freedom as themselves, I do not pretend to know.
These same questions were raised about Martin Luther King’s
marches into all-white neighborhoods of the Chicago area. I do
know that the First Amendment does not allow speakers or
writers to be suppressed because of speculation by others
about their motives and because a prospective audience
threatens violence against them. If it were otherwise, Dr. King
would never have marched in Mississippi or Alabama.
Justice Louis Brandeis spoke to this issue as eloquently as
anyone ever has when he said: “If there be time to expose
through discussion the falsehoods and the fallacies, to avert
the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be
applied is more speech, not enforced silence . . . . Such, in my
opinion, is the command of the Constitution.”
Franklyn S. Haiman is professor of communication studies
and urban affairs at Northwestern University and national
secretary of the American Civil Liberties Union. He has served
as chairman of Rep. Mikva’s academic advisory committee.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Mikva's wrong on Nazi march
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Haiman, Franklyn S.
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Franklyn S. Haiman defends National Socialist Party of America's (Nazi) constitutional right to march in Skokie. Includes photograph of Franklyn S. Haiman.
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3/31/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Mikva, Abner J.
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New issues in Skokie
In a letter to you, Louis Kutner notes that
he was involved in a suit against a neo-Nazi
demonstration in 1966 and that the "legalistics” of the current Skokie dispute are not
necessary because that suit solved the questions.
The suit to which Kutner refers (Jewish
War Veterans v. American Nazi Party) involved a neo-Nazi picket line that was to
surround a synagog on Jewish holy days.
The dispute in Skokie, of course, centers
around a public demonstration on a weekend
afternoon in front of the village hall. The
facts in the two cases are barely related at
all, and for that reason the courts have found
Kutner’s suit and its result to be of little
assistance in the Skokie case.
While it is true that one can and often
does control another, that is not the situation
in this instance. Kutner may be puzzled by
the "legalistics" of Skokie, but the courts
clearly are not. Frustrating though it may
be, new issues require new court scrutiny,
and that is precisely what is happening in
the Skokie litigation
David M. Hamlin
American Civil Liberties Union
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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New issues in Skokie
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Hamlin, David M.
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Letter to editor from David M. Hamlin of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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5/28/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America -- Trials, litigation, etc.
American Civil Liberties Union
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Chicago Sun-Times, Sunday, May 28, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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eng
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Supports ACLU
Nazi venom is insidious. Many of us
Jews in Skokie are shouting their slogans: “No free speech for their kind.”
“Exterminate them all.”
Only the American Civil Liberties
union has insisted there are means for
stopping the poison without becoming
Fascists ourselves.
The ACLU is not supporting Nazis.
They are upholding a constitution
which gives us the freedom to use a
host of legal, political and social means
to denounce and nullify Nazism.
We Jews in Skokie must use those
means.
And we should heap blessings on the
heads of ACLU, not stones.
Rebecca Hillman
9063 Niles Center
Skokie
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Supports ACLU
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Hillman, Rebecca
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Rebecca Hillman of Skokie supports the efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to insure that the rights of the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) are protected.
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5/14/1978
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Letters Nazi threat symptomatic of wider cultural decay
I don't argue with Prof. Franklyn S. Haiman’s Personal View on the right of the Nazis
to march in Skokie or anywhere else. What
really concerns me is that the Nazis could
conceivably convince enough people that their
cause is just. And the way things are moving
in the United States and in the world in 1978,
that thought is not too far-fetched. At that
point, however, free speech in America could
soon end.
“Poppycock,” some might say. Maybe. But
The Sun-Times and other newspapers report
daily how the ethical, moral and political
fibers of the United States are crumbling at
an alarming rate. That same kind of thing
happened to the Roman Empire and the
German Empire. And I am scared.
Not because of Skokie, but because of what
can and will happen to us in the long run.
Further, the credibility of the United States
has never been lower than it is today and our
leadership, both abroad and internally, is
sinking to even lower depths as sociopaths,
along with weak leaders, add to our ruin.
We don’t need to give “free speech” to the
Nazis, the pornographers, the violators of our
social standards. Doing so is only killing us killing our right to be a free nation, under
W. Dennis Hodges
God.
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Nazi threat symptomatic of wider cultural decay
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Hodges, W. Dennis
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Letter to editor disputing Franklyn Haiman's opinion that the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) have a right to march in Skokie.
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4/7/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Public opinion
Hodges, W. Dennis
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Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, April 7, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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ist780407a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
editorials and opinions
newspaper clippings
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Learn lesson of 'Skokie'
The author is a Hebrew teacher for
the Niles Township High Schools and is
the coordinator of the High School of
Jewish Studies (Skokie branch).
By ITZHAK HOFFMAN
THE STRUGGLE of the Jewish community and others in Skokie against
the threat of the Nazi march in 1977
has put Skokie on the map of awareness throughout the United States. Now
it has been immortalized on film. We,
even those among us who are supposed
to be more alert than the rest, innocently thought that Jewish hatred in its
epidemic form was a phenomenon of
the past. We believed that with the Holocaust, anti-Semitism had reached its
last murderous peak and later passed
away. So terrible and gruesome was
that last atrocity, so remote from any
logic and human conception, that it
would have been difficult to believe it
had survived in the modern world.
In the 30 years that have passed
since the fires were put out in the
Auschwitz incinerators, we have raised
a whole generation to whom anti-Semitism was only a phenomenon of history. Everywhere around the world the
doors opened up for the Jews. Everywhere, anti-Jewish hostility went into
hiding.
THE WARNING signs of recent
years, anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, increase of the KKK and Nazi activities
must force us to raise our antennas
again for fine tuning. We have to awaken our senses and interpret the symp-
toms correctly. They can no longer be
ignored.
What the Skokie situation symbolized
had been cast aside shortly after the
events themselves took place. It passed
like a bad dream which nobody wants
to recall. If the movie “Skokie” did nothing else, it at least brought into focus, throughout many communities
around the country, some serious issues that merit our further examination. The unsatisfactory or unfair
treatment of some of the major characters in the movie version notwithstanding, this picture still speaks
better than thousands of words.
JANET, THE teen-age daughter of
the fictional Feldman family in the
movie, “Skokie,” was portrayed as a
student at Niles East High School. Her
struggle to come to terms with her own
identity suffers as a result of not understanding and not knowing really
what the Holocaust was all about.
While Holocaust study exists in the
Niles Township High Schools (on a
very limited ineffectual basis), and is
offered as a course at the High School
of Jewish Studies at the Mayer Kaplan
JCC, one might have expected a concentrated effort to teach the youngsters of the community about the
Holocaust and its related issues. As
many Skokie residents have already
discovered, being from Skokie makes
one a focus of attention, curiosity and
questions around the country. (I was
asked about it in Israel!)
BETTER EDUCATION about the
Holocaust will enhance understanding
and prevent identity and community
crises which are brought about by a
lack of ability to feel and understand
the issues. That is one way of saying
“Never Again!” but there are other
ways. While Yom Hashoah (The day of
Memorial of the Holocaust), does take
place to a greater or lesser extent in
synagogues, organizations and some
churches in the community, it is more
or less a private individual effort. An
attempt last year to have a villagewide commemoration suffered from
poor attendance.
There are ways to make the statement that Skokie may want to make.
Skokie high schools should offer in
their curriculum a comprehensive
course in the study of the Holocaust.
An elective course as part of the social
studies program can be a step in the
right direction. What has been done until now is simply not enough. Many
public schools around the country have
been teaching the Holocaust; why of
all places not in Skokie?! Skokie can
organize an international conference of
the lessons of the Holocaust. It can
sponsor seminars and workshops on
the Holocaust’s history, causes, effects
and implications.
What lies beyond the movie is not docu-drama or fiction. It is a reality that
has to be faced by actions which express the values, beliefs and quality of
life in the community. Let’s hope that
another movie, “Skokie II,” will not
have to be made.
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Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Learn lesson of 'Skokie'
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Hoffman, Itzhak
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As part of a discussion of the made-for-television movie "Skokie," a local Hebrew teacher advices a course in the study of the Holocaust to be taught in Skokie schools.
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11/29/1981
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Hoffman, Itzhak
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Skokie Life, Sunday, November 29, 1981, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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isl811129a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
1980s (1980-1989)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
editorials and opinions
newspaper clippings
skokie movie
tv movie