Thank you for posting this song. But I think your idea that "Jack" in the song refers to JFK is a serious misunderstanding of the history of those times. JFK was long since dead by the time this song and the events that led to it occurred. And I'd even say the cultural forces at work which contributed to Kennnedy's assasination led to the national discontentment which produced Chicago '68. With Occupy, this mood appears resurgent again just in time for the summer 2012 conventions.
it was a police riot. what few film footage came out of it proved that. i remember it well.
as for work - we need jobs that will at least pay the mortgage and living expenses and those complaining about others not having a jobs should STFU and EMPLOY THEM!
theres a few ppl that mention the whole jfk well it dosent matter when the song came out its when the riot was happening, and cudos i hope you got an A on this its just awsome
Tear gas should be banned from police use. The South Korean public got their government to ban it's use. Should the U.S. have as much proctection of it's citizen's right to protest peacefully?
People, here is a way to contribute to the revolution of mind taking place since 15-10-2011: comment on this song by naming a previous revolution in which people themselves decided to take control themselves and which we can take as an example/inspiration for the events now taking place all over the world. -> continued in next comment
@sendanor It will have 2 effects: we will take care that these forgotten revolutions in their own way will be remembered and prevent them from being silenced by certain repressive authorities, and it will trigger people all over the world to think and thereby to contribute/get inspired themselves to act in their own way. Ready? OK, see the following comment for the precise example and start commenting/replying to it: -> continued in next comment
@sendanor Respect for the people massacred on Tiananmen Square, Peking 1989! Their memory will not be forgotten – they inspired me to be the change! OK people, next comment and keep it going on endlessly – your words will inspire things you haven’t even dreamed of! But keep it constructive, no pleas for violence, verbal butchering etc. – show the world we can do it otherwise than the war-like mongering of the old world.
In 1968, JFK "Jack" had already been dead 4 years. Otherwise, this video is cool. Why not just edit out the JFK part. Even the history teacher missed this?
I was just ten years old but I remember that awful day and night...my folks were watching the convention on TV (black and whit, of course)...suddenly a camera shot from outside was shown, and just as plain as day a handful of cops were shown bokting into a crowd of unarmed people, billy clubs swinging...they beat one kid and he punched an officer, then a couple cops commenced to knocking him down and senseless with their clubs...
Commentators at the convention stopped talking and one named Howa
@swoop1111 As of yesterday evening, I am spreading the word for our Dutch co-operations on Twitter and Facebook, friend! THE movement of our times has begun and won't stop!!!
@merlin6945 Hehe....even the south of the Netherlands, in the cities of Heerlen and Maastricht joined the movement...but these cities was 'conveniently' forgotten by most NL media, and only the bigger cities of Utrecht, The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam were mentioned...need I say more??
This was NOT by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young...It was from the solo album Songs For Beginners by Graham Nash. Crosby, Stills and Young had nothing to do with it.
Without getting too caught up in the history here, this song isn't by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but from Graham Nash's first solo album, 'Songs For Beginners'. Well worth a listen, the album is simply stunning.
If you think the scenes of the Chicago riot resemble those of a war you've obviously stretched the truth--a lot. And you seem to have overlooked the stories of the so-called 'peaceful' protesters throwing bags of shit and bricks at the police...Chicago was not then and is not now a city that will tolerate that kind of bullshit. Peace may be an ideal, yes. But you get that many people together and stupid shit will happen. The police did their job. They protected my city and they did it well.
*continued* and if you truly did do this project for a history class I hope you didn't get a good grade. You neglected to even mention the context in which this protest took place ( the cold war). There's not really a whole lot of substance to your video just some more bleeding heart "oh no look at that poor guy that got beat up by the police." He's just another asshole and I would bet that a lot of the people who were actually FROM Chicago got away unharmed--you don't fuck with the police here
Great footage in this video of the iconic song by CSNY, it really brings that time period back for me. I remember the 1968 convention, I lived in Chicago and the reality was worse than the footage! My uncle was brutally beaten back then by the cops for holding a sign saying police are pigs! He came home from the police station so badly beaten I will never forget the image! The world has changed so much, people no longer care about the greater good, it's all me me me these days!
Jack Kennedy was dead for 5 years, so I think they mean another "Jack" by the time of the DNC. I know they didnt care for Lyndon, or Hubert. McCarthy was the hero of the protestors, he was the Ron Paul of the 60's!!
ronrizzi is right. JFK was dead by 1968. He was assassinated in 1963 so I doubt very seriously CSNY were referring to him as someone who is turning a deaf ear to the people. He was no longer a player. That's a major faux pas in this video although there's some really good footage here showing how very easily our freedoms can be taken away, despite the jingoism that comes from all those alleged self-proclaimed patriots, who propagandize and accuse those of treason when they don't believe the lie.
@kazywaz Well Put man!!!Articulate and straight to the point and reality.And if only the "yes sir" "i back my leaders 100%! could see how fast that leader can turn this country on its ear into a fascist military state, IF only.Damn " If" is a Big word!!! If only,If we had... etc
@mkervelegan - How right you are....."I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property-until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson
To the creator of this video: Are you aware that Jack Kennedy was assassinated in November of 1963 and that the events in this song take place during the summer of 1968? Your assertion that Graham Nash was referring to Jack Kennedy when he said, "Don't ask Jack to help you..." is preposterous.
Didn't the Black Panther movement end up becoming the Black P Stones? That's if street history serves me correct? If I'm wrong, I apologize. I was 3 y/o during this and I remember my mom, step dad and his brother were there. I have a few pics from that protest. While I agree, artists are not the same today as they were back then. Except for greenday and U2 who immediately come to mind.
@caucus100 There is still talent in the music of today, it's just that you have to search for it. Commerical stuff that the media spews out will never be good, because it's purely created to prodyuce money which isn't the point of music, it's unfortunate.
At the time I was pretty involved in the antiwar movement and I really thought that Chicago had some significance. Now I look on it as a staged media event organized by the yippies for the most part and intended not to shorten the war but to prolong it by radicalizing the peace movement and thereby killing any chance of influencing the mainstream toward peace. The Yippies and the SDS did more to get Nixon elected than anybody else.
The Black Man That Was Chained And Gagged To The Chair Was Robert George Seale A.K.A Bobby Seale Founder Of The Black Panther Party .. Power To The People !! Im Black And Im Proud Say It Loud !!
@coronfletcherb4 great, your black. I'm Greek, and I'm proud to say it!
just no,. the whole damned racial oppression thing is over. Us greeks were enslaved by the turks for over 400 years, and unlike the blacks, we freed ourselves. The best part is, I don't think the turks owe me anything. Apparently black people still think that whites owe them something.
I recognize this is from 4 years ago, but I also have to say that the students who put this together misinterpreted the meaning of "Jack." Those of us who were alive then see the glaring inaccuracy there. There were other inaccuracies in terms of the details (i.e. picesptah's comment). Otherwise, this would be brilliant.
I recognize this is from 4 years ago, but I also have to say that the students who put this together misinterpreted the meaning of "Jack." Those of us who were alive then see the glaring inaccuracy there. Otherwise, this would be brilliant.
Strange that everyone argues the "Jack" reference and NO ONE points out that the "brother" who is "bound and gagged and chained to a chair" was NOT "Bobby Seale" but, rather, ABBIE HOFFMAN at his trial on charges of inciting a riot. Abbie, the generally accepted leader of the YIPPIES (NOT the "yuppies" which was a bastardization of the former meant to describe affluent young people who "played" at being "hippies") had vigorously objected during the trial, so they gagged and restrained him.
MY FATHER WAS AT WAR WHEN CRAP WAS GOIN ON, HE'S VIETIAM VERTiAN WHOS HEART HAS A VIRIUS NOW, CUZ OF P.O.S WAR. he's dying, I hope people realize what those boys went thought and give give them the up most of respect. I LUV MY FATHER AND ANYBODY WHO HAS SERVED IN COMBAT!!!!!!!!
Jack was Jack S**T these politicians knew nothing except over regulation...Just like they are doing today! Please Change that... Don't know where that came from ..Opps I do know they change history all the time to suit themselves. !!!
Except, President Kennedy was long dead by the of the protests at the Democratic convention. I doubt the lyric "Don't ask Jack to help" was referring to him. But it's still a good video.
I really don't think the line about "don't ask Jack to help you" has anything to do with John Kennedy, especially since he had been dead for nearly 5 years by then! Plus CSN&Y had great affection for Jack Kennedy's brother Bobby, who had just been assassinated in June 1968 (in fact their song "Long Time Gone" was written by Crosby to reflect his anger and hurt over Robert Kennedy's assassination). "Jack" here simply means generic politicians who talk change but do nothing to achieve it.
I really need a time machine....i was born in wrong time, wrong place... Love this song, love this music and those years, so full of poetry and strenght
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
They always forget to mention the FBI informants who posed as protesters and started the violence...police reacted...just like at Kent State where a known FBI informant fired gunshots with pistol before national guardsman shot back...ahhhh, the days of Nixon/Hoover, not unlike todays teabaggers.
I'm enjoying this in celebration of the free people of Egypt, the late 60's in the USA is the closest I ever came to feeling what they must have been feeling there over the last few weeks, power to the people!
When the kids could call out thru music for perfect righteous reasons, rally with love and get response, later came if you come to San Francisco..............Comon kids.....do like Egypt !
ah yes...the good old days when liberals, hippies and socialists got the shit kicked out of them for their anti american activities, and niggers didnt go west of western avenue on the south side!
You're missing the meaning of "Jack". Jack on the street means that "you" (not you neo) don't know shit! So don't ask "Jack" not John Kennedy but "Jack" as in politicians in general. As also has been repeated "history" toda.y Peace. (:{)
@ronrizzi yup, " Dude you don't know Jack"! or Jack Shit!.In other words if you were buying into the system--- yer a sheep! open your eyes!.Man not to sound like the grey haired hippie, we had passion,we tried at least!
@TheZayne34 So then we agree.... and it's a good thing for gray haired hippies. If there weren't a few left around no one would complain, they would all be watching Jessica Simpson and survivor rather than trying to keep a dream long dormant from the 60's alive....
Graham Nash: "The 'Jack' in my song Chicago is Jack Kennedy. Jack is a term used by many English people as a kind of generic word. Although Kennedy had been dead for years, his spirit lives on."
Everyone points and hisses at the high numbers of police and National Guard Daley brought down on the DNC, citing it as "repressive" or "fascist" But I ask you. How many people died during that riot? That's right.... Goose Eggs ladies and gentleman.
43 years ago people had more intellectual depth because they were not totally atomised from each other by their Chinese electronic toys. Now the government knows there will never be a challenge to anything it initiates, because everyone is so F*@king selfish and unable to see past one's nose...
arent you sitting in front of your Chinese electronic toy right now? 43 years ago people were not surveilled like they are today, and i dont see how protesting with a bunch of flowers, pot and acid is any proof of "intellectual depth" ..and politically motivated music is still around especially in underground hip hop and lyric wise is deeper and more intellectual, this type of music is just kept off the airwaves due to media conglomerates like clear channel
@mkervelegan Well....I can gainsay this statement of pessimism: as of the past week, the 'Occupy' movement has shown worldwide that people are far from asleep and shortsighted!!!!!!!
@sendanor: and I am happy to be brought up short in this sense, pleased but not entirely surprised to note that our western societies are not totally senescent and complacent, especially those of a younger age who will have to sort out all our shite...
I wish people wouldn't tell others what to think... it's so depressing. It is a great song, but the meaning "We can change the world" isn't the whole story until it's backed up. I only know recent Young songs, but like 'Restless Consumer' and 'Be The Rain' - ok, on different topics, but clearly point fingers at how people can bitch and rant all they like, but no one is actually willing to do anything about it. The west is a corrupt capitalism, and we let it go all too willingly.
NeoVisconteo - that's what "symbol" means. Yes, I'm rolling my eyes.
From Graham Nash: 4waysite.com/faq/faqsongs.htm
"The 'Jack' in my song Chicago is Jack Kennedy. Jack is a term used by many English people as a kind of generic word. Although Kennedy had been dead for years, his spirit lives on."
it wasn't about jfk... PAULNIEM is actually right. i hate when people don't get their info right before making a video. make us look bad in chicago for making shit like this
love this song. it shows what true patriotism is, standing up to fight for the ideals that this country was built on, even if that means protesting against it.
i agree bookkeeper57. Graham Nash wasnt singing about JFK. And the song is by Graham from his solo album "songs for beginners" album. ..who joined this group after leaving the Hollies.Its CSNY who no doubt sang it often including a 1968 concert as mentioned. Thanks for sharing the video & Peace.
I love this video. I was an 11 yr. old kid in Chicago at the time and my mom wouldn't let me go downtown to the riots. I couldn't understand why my older sister would'nt go. This song is a classic that should inspire all generations past, present, and future. Play on and be aware....
@mozfreak84........I was 10 years old at the time and I got to watch the whole thing on black & white TV. What are the effects that young people are still feeling from the '60's?
@ Neo.......Jack was a symbol for what might have been. I think it's called alliteration, but I've been out of school a awhile now.. We all knew what they meant, back then, though. That's for sure.........
what the cpd did was unexceptable but as a chicagoan i dont want some english boy like this dude talking shit about us we dont go around writing songs about how corrupt the english govt is.
I wasn't around during the time but as a young person, I have much respect for what young people during that time were trying to accomplish. Today we are still feeling the effects of the counterculture and other phenomena from the era.
The really sad thing....when we grew up what did this generation give us as a leader? George W. Bush.
We can change the world? Did we?
Personally, I'm ashamed that we started out with so much hopeful vision and in the end we didn't turn out much different from the generation we were protesting against.
@shmusiccleaner - You can be an apologist for the Chicago Police all you wish to be, but your observation about the protesters has no validity. The Daley Machine went out of its way to ensure the police would create a violent confrontation, and they manufactured exactly what they hoped for.
great song, but you failed to mention how the protestors threw cocktails of piss and shit at the police officers. i think that sort of behavior warrants mace and billy clubs, but perhaps i'm just a bit sensitive when it comes to having human feces thrown at me. cool footage though.
@zacatetas. Resorting to throwing one's waste as a form of protest or rebellion seems more in line with a monkey caged in a zoo. Not a human being debating politics. Throwing shit at a police officer does not affect a politician. Having intelligence and finding a way to get your message across that garners support, not disgust from the masses, would probably have been a better option.
I think the reference to "Jack" actually refers to the politicians not calling upon his name to help them in their cause. Thinking they could play the JFK card to garner support.
i love chicago. never want to leave!!!
NiceDigs08 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Thank you for posting this song. But I think your idea that "Jack" in the song refers to JFK is a serious misunderstanding of the history of those times. JFK was long since dead by the time this song and the events that led to it occurred. And I'd even say the cultural forces at work which contributed to Kennnedy's assasination led to the national discontentment which produced Chicago '68. With Occupy, this mood appears resurgent again just in time for the summer 2012 conventions.
Hwillijonl 1 month ago
Y'all done good! All us old folks are proud of ya! Peace n Love, Suzie
More to come lol.........
tennesuze 1 month ago
it was a police riot. what few film footage came out of it proved that. i remember it well.
as for work - we need jobs that will at least pay the mortgage and living expenses and those complaining about others not having a jobs should STFU and EMPLOY THEM!
goth1856 1 month ago
A good piece. A nice video collage.
dwk49 2 months ago
The occupy protesters think that are doing something that has not been tried before to bring about change. We all wish it is that simple.
dwk49 2 months ago
@dwk49 Now all they need to do is take the needle out, and take a shower..... That might be a good start when looking for employment.
sammy79ism 2 months ago
Tampa. 2012. When they block out Ron Paul from the nomination, this will happed all over again....RON PAUL R3VOLUTION!
HalfBornUnicornFetus 2 months ago
It is happening all over again in 2011!!
LucieannDe 2 months ago 15
theres a few ppl that mention the whole jfk well it dosent matter when the song came out its when the riot was happening, and cudos i hope you got an A on this its just awsome
Fred91ism 2 months ago
Tear gas should be banned from police use. The South Korean public got their government to ban it's use. Should the U.S. have as much proctection of it's citizen's right to protest peacefully?
shinnam 2 months ago 4
12 cops watched this vid!
77GSlinger 2 months ago 2
This is Graham Nash from Song for Beginners... not CSNY.
mmorrell2007 3 months ago 2
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wildmanxcat 3 months ago
Shame to use JFK as the poster boy for political indifference, when he had been dead for 5 years when this happened......
wildmanxcat 3 months ago 12
@wildmanxcat True, wildman, but blame the song writer not the kids who did the video. (Shoot they shot Kennedy because he wouldnt be their puppet.)
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@sendanor Respect for the people massacred on Tiananmen Square, Peking 1989! Their memory will not be forgotten – they inspired me to be the change! OK people, next comment and keep it going on endlessly – your words will inspire things you haven’t even dreamed of! But keep it constructive, no pleas for violence, verbal butchering etc. – show the world we can do it otherwise than the war-like mongering of the old world.
sendanor 3 months ago in playlist Inspiration
bop my head evertime
KevinJbwkz 3 months ago
In 1968, JFK "Jack" had already been dead 4 years. Otherwise, this video is cool. Why not just edit out the JFK part. Even the history teacher missed this?
bizthin 3 months ago
#occupychi
IAM99PERCENT 3 months ago
What is the album (studio rec.! ) Please response
Stoned1959 3 months ago
I was just ten years old but I remember that awful day and night...my folks were watching the convention on TV (black and whit, of course)...suddenly a camera shot from outside was shown, and just as plain as day a handful of cops were shown bokting into a crowd of unarmed people, billy clubs swinging...they beat one kid and he punched an officer, then a couple cops commenced to knocking him down and senseless with their clubs...
Commentators at the convention stopped talking and one named Howa
TheDocSanchez 3 months ago
wow their tactics for crowd control were brutal...disgusting.
swoop1111 4 months ago
won't you please come to WALL STREET just to sing ....we can change the world.........
swoop1111 4 months ago
@swoop1111 As of yesterday evening, I am spreading the word for our Dutch co-operations on Twitter and Facebook, friend! THE movement of our times has begun and won't stop!!!
sendanor 3 months ago
@sendanor Power to the People.. We are the 99%
merlin6945 3 months ago
@merlin6945 Hehe....even the south of the Netherlands, in the cities of Heerlen and Maastricht joined the movement...but these cities was 'conveniently' forgotten by most NL media, and only the bigger cities of Utrecht, The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam were mentioned...need I say more??
sendanor 3 months ago
This was NOT by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young...It was from the solo album Songs For Beginners by Graham Nash. Crosby, Stills and Young had nothing to do with it.
knt42354 4 months ago
dope history on the Chicago riots
Elbuckone 4 months ago
This melody in the beginning is used in an rap song, anybody knows wich?
Thanks
simmyham 4 months ago
@simmyham The Truth by Beanie Seigel dope sample for the song and also classic song
Elbuckone 4 months ago
@Elbuckone
Thanks! But thats another one, i found the one i was looking for:
Westside Connection - Gangster Nation
simmyham 4 months ago
good old chicago gestapo i mean police.....
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HalfBornUnicornFetus 4 months ago
I prefer the 4 way street version.. <3
stefansson11 5 months ago
Without getting too caught up in the history here, this song isn't by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but from Graham Nash's first solo album, 'Songs For Beginners'. Well worth a listen, the album is simply stunning.
SuperCameronb 5 months ago 2
If you think the scenes of the Chicago riot resemble those of a war you've obviously stretched the truth--a lot. And you seem to have overlooked the stories of the so-called 'peaceful' protesters throwing bags of shit and bricks at the police...Chicago was not then and is not now a city that will tolerate that kind of bullshit. Peace may be an ideal, yes. But you get that many people together and stupid shit will happen. The police did their job. They protected my city and they did it well.
Pdehbread 5 months ago
*continued* and if you truly did do this project for a history class I hope you didn't get a good grade. You neglected to even mention the context in which this protest took place ( the cold war). There's not really a whole lot of substance to your video just some more bleeding heart "oh no look at that poor guy that got beat up by the police." He's just another asshole and I would bet that a lot of the people who were actually FROM Chicago got away unharmed--you don't fuck with the police here
Pdehbread 5 months ago
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bent12345 5 months ago
Great footage in this video of the iconic song by CSNY, it really brings that time period back for me. I remember the 1968 convention, I lived in Chicago and the reality was worse than the footage! My uncle was brutally beaten back then by the cops for holding a sign saying police are pigs! He came home from the police station so badly beaten I will never forget the image! The world has changed so much, people no longer care about the greater good, it's all me me me these days!
mplsbill 5 months ago
Jack Kennedy was dead for 5 years, so I think they mean another "Jack" by the time of the DNC. I know they didnt care for Lyndon, or Hubert. McCarthy was the hero of the protestors, he was the Ron Paul of the 60's!!
HalfBornUnicornFetus 6 months ago
ronrizzi is right. JFK was dead by 1968. He was assassinated in 1963 so I doubt very seriously CSNY were referring to him as someone who is turning a deaf ear to the people. He was no longer a player. That's a major faux pas in this video although there's some really good footage here showing how very easily our freedoms can be taken away, despite the jingoism that comes from all those alleged self-proclaimed patriots, who propagandize and accuse those of treason when they don't believe the lie.
kazywaz 6 months ago
@kazywaz Well Put man!!!Articulate and straight to the point and reality.And if only the "yes sir" "i back my leaders 100%! could see how fast that leader can turn this country on its ear into a fascist military state, IF only.Damn " If" is a Big word!!! If only,If we had... etc
TheZayne34 6 months ago
As also has been repeated "history" Loops , Aint nothing new under the sun , peace is inside set & setting :) QC
Quaaludedude714 6 months ago
Thanks for this song & all the others of this great band
Capucine444 6 months ago
Jack Kennedy was dead 5 years in 1968
amazingmrtitts 6 months ago
named my son after him
utahan15 6 months ago
Chicago !
schinken360 6 months ago
Only 275707 hits?
sweetkees 7 months ago
Banks or corporations...protesters and peace marches...nothing matters anymore!
I see a giant boot stepping on our throats forever...
MrHobbes2001 7 months ago
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cleverlouanne 7 months ago
@mkervelegan - How right you are....."I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property-until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson
It started a long time ago.
cleverlouanne 7 months ago
the police are not here to create disorder, the police are here to preserve disorder
bradnoga 7 months ago 2
Fast forward to Wisconsin, 2011. Will we be singing 'Tin soldiers and Walker's coming' this time next year?
Edenkoben1779 7 months ago
To the creator of this video: Are you aware that Jack Kennedy was assassinated in November of 1963 and that the events in this song take place during the summer of 1968? Your assertion that Graham Nash was referring to Jack Kennedy when he said, "Don't ask Jack to help you..." is preposterous.
UncleDuckle 7 months ago
Didn't the Black Panther movement end up becoming the Black P Stones? That's if street history serves me correct? If I'm wrong, I apologize. I was 3 y/o during this and I remember my mom, step dad and his brother were there. I have a few pics from that protest. While I agree, artists are not the same today as they were back then. Except for greenday and U2 who immediately come to mind.
gaea7 7 months ago
@caucus100 There is still talent in the music of today, it's just that you have to search for it. Commerical stuff that the media spews out will never be good, because it's purely created to prodyuce money which isn't the point of music, it's unfortunate.
KidsWithGuns1992 8 months ago
You got Obama as president now. How is that hope and change going? BWAHAHA!!! He is worse than Bush.
BlueStateChronicle 8 months ago
@BlueStateChronicle NO ONE is worse than Bush, not even Reagan or Nixon! (Though it's a pretty close race)
HeartoftheDragonColo 8 months ago
At the time I was pretty involved in the antiwar movement and I really thought that Chicago had some significance. Now I look on it as a staged media event organized by the yippies for the most part and intended not to shorten the war but to prolong it by radicalizing the peace movement and thereby killing any chance of influencing the mainstream toward peace. The Yippies and the SDS did more to get Nixon elected than anybody else.
Txsray 8 months ago
forget the politics ....too good a song!!!!!
ikay1966 8 months ago
The Black Man That Was Chained And Gagged To The Chair Was Robert George Seale A.K.A Bobby Seale Founder Of The Black Panther Party .. Power To The People !! Im Black And Im Proud Say It Loud !!
coronfletcherb4 8 months ago
@coronfletcherb4 great, your black. I'm Greek, and I'm proud to say it!
just no,. the whole damned racial oppression thing is over. Us greeks were enslaved by the turks for over 400 years, and unlike the blacks, we freed ourselves. The best part is, I don't think the turks owe me anything. Apparently black people still think that whites owe them something.
Thegreekboy250 8 months ago
I recognize this is from 4 years ago, but I also have to say that the students who put this together misinterpreted the meaning of "Jack." Those of us who were alive then see the glaring inaccuracy there. There were other inaccuracies in terms of the details (i.e. picesptah's comment). Otherwise, this would be brilliant.
nebula1400 8 months ago
I recognize this is from 4 years ago, but I also have to say that the students who put this together misinterpreted the meaning of "Jack." Those of us who were alive then see the glaring inaccuracy there. Otherwise, this would be brilliant.
nebula1400 8 months ago
My Dad was a 60's Chicago child, he told me about the MLK Riots and1968 Democratic Riots.
AccessDenied55 8 months ago
Strange that everyone argues the "Jack" reference and NO ONE points out that the "brother" who is "bound and gagged and chained to a chair" was NOT "Bobby Seale" but, rather, ABBIE HOFFMAN at his trial on charges of inciting a riot. Abbie, the generally accepted leader of the YIPPIES (NOT the "yuppies" which was a bastardization of the former meant to describe affluent young people who "played" at being "hippies") had vigorously objected during the trial, so they gagged and restrained him.
piscesptah 8 months ago
MY FATHER WAS AT WAR WHEN CRAP WAS GOIN ON, HE'S VIETIAM VERTiAN WHOS HEART HAS A VIRIUS NOW, CUZ OF P.O.S WAR. he's dying, I hope people realize what those boys went thought and give give them the up most of respect. I LUV MY FATHER AND ANYBODY WHO HAS SERVED IN COMBAT!!!!!!!!
God bless us all
gilteed77 8 months ago 2
"Join The Conspiracy"
1canyonguy 8 months ago
Jack was Jack S**T these politicians knew nothing except over regulation...Just like they are doing today! Please Change that... Don't know where that came from ..Opps I do know they change history all the time to suit themselves. !!!
RCV50 9 months ago
I love this song and the 60s I wish I was born long ago
edwaraus0 9 months ago
Except, President Kennedy was long dead by the of the protests at the Democratic convention. I doubt the lyric "Don't ask Jack to help" was referring to him. But it's still a good video.
1yellowsub 9 months ago
Beanie Sigel sampled for the truth song.
joecarter76 9 months ago
Beat de Alkpote - L'envahisseur
sisisi
arkanzaz15 9 months ago
We still can change the world we just have to stand up for what we believe in
realsongs58 9 months ago 3
Well done. =)
Pritza 10 months ago
Kanye sampled this for Beanie Sigel's The Truth. Classic in both ways!!!!!
eddieklown 10 months ago
“シカゴ”のｸﾞﾗﾊﾑ･ﾅｯｼｭだが､ほんとに好きなのは､ｲﾐｸﾞﾚｲｼｮﾝ･マン~~キラっと光るデイヴ・メイソンのワンパターン
blackandtanful 10 months ago
I really don't think the line about "don't ask Jack to help you" has anything to do with John Kennedy, especially since he had been dead for nearly 5 years by then! Plus CSN&Y had great affection for Jack Kennedy's brother Bobby, who had just been assassinated in June 1968 (in fact their song "Long Time Gone" was written by Crosby to reflect his anger and hurt over Robert Kennedy's assassination). "Jack" here simply means generic politicians who talk change but do nothing to achieve it.
raelraven2 10 months ago
Freedom is never free. It comes with a price and there are those willing to pay that price.............for all mankind.
janisjade1 10 months ago
I really need a time machine....i was born in wrong time, wrong place... Love this song, love this music and those years, so full of poetry and strenght
bluesauvage3333 10 months ago
I was only 7 when this happened , but I remember it.
jmms429 10 months ago
You may as well put the word Wisconsin in there instead of Chicago.
The whole world is watching.
PumaTwoU 10 months ago
Man, hippies are cool.
nicholasyoder 11 months ago
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
JimmyPageMarley1 11 months ago 3
10 teabagging microcephali.
fatheroflatus 11 months ago
They always forget to mention the FBI informants who posed as protesters and started the violence...police reacted...just like at Kent State where a known FBI informant fired gunshots with pistol before national guardsman shot back...ahhhh, the days of Nixon/Hoover, not unlike todays teabaggers.
imaxfli 11 months ago 3
The "Jack" mentioned in this song who "wouldn't help" is not Jack Kennedy it's "Jack" Daly the mayor of Chicago
chelsea2657 11 months ago 4
ohh the best, excelent music
molinagrosz 11 months ago
ohh the best excelent music
molinagrosz 11 months ago
I'm enjoying this in celebration of the free people of Egypt, the late 60's in the USA is the closest I ever came to feeling what they must have been feeling there over the last few weeks, power to the people!
mcwsearch 11 months ago
Im from chicago :]
kgirl1306 11 months ago
I love how they speak their minds!!
RastaSandra 11 months ago
Great song they don't make bands or songs like this anymore
tomgawmusic 11 months ago
When the kids could call out thru music for perfect righteous reasons, rally with love and get response, later came if you come to San Francisco..............Comon kids.....do like Egypt !
daddyoj 11 months ago
ah yes...the good old days when liberals, hippies and socialists got the shit kicked out of them for their anti american activities, and niggers didnt go west of western avenue on the south side!
MelMelsNRich 11 months ago
FUCK THIS GUY FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO. THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH JFK.. WHO WAS THE LAST PRESIDENT WE EVER FUCKIN HAD.
jaiBavet 1 year ago
You're missing the meaning of "Jack". Jack on the street means that "you" (not you neo) don't know shit! So don't ask "Jack" not John Kennedy but "Jack" as in politicians in general. As also has been repeated "history" toda.y Peace. (:{)
ronrizzi 1 year ago 8
@ronrizzi yup, " Dude you don't know Jack"! or Jack Shit!.In other words if you were buying into the system--- yer a sheep! open your eyes!.Man not to sound like the grey haired hippie, we had passion,we tried at least!
TheZayne34 6 months ago
@TheZayne34 So then we agree.... and it's a good thing for gray haired hippies. If there weren't a few left around no one would complain, they would all be watching Jessica Simpson and survivor rather than trying to keep a dream long dormant from the 60's alive....
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@ronrizzi
Graham Nash: "The 'Jack' in my song Chicago is Jack Kennedy. Jack is a term used by many English people as a kind of generic word. Although Kennedy had been dead for years, his spirit lives on."
larrywake 3 months ago
Everyone points and hisses at the high numbers of police and National Guard Daley brought down on the DNC, citing it as "repressive" or "fascist" But I ask you. How many people died during that riot? That's right.... Goose Eggs ladies and gentleman.
phantom12321 1 year ago
deep man just brings a tear
aGoodCook 1 year ago
We can change the World
Rearrange the World
Did it once
We can do it again.
gerkins1 1 year ago 3
NeoV is correct. The Jack reference is to every day people, or Joe Schmoe if you will.
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BRITTNEYFRANCES 1 year ago
43 years ago people had more intellectual depth because they were not totally atomised from each other by their Chinese electronic toys. Now the government knows there will never be a challenge to anything it initiates, because everyone is so F*@king selfish and unable to see past one's nose...
mkervelegan 1 year ago 30
@mkervelegan
arent you sitting in front of your Chinese electronic toy right now? 43 years ago people were not surveilled like they are today, and i dont see how protesting with a bunch of flowers, pot and acid is any proof of "intellectual depth" ..and politically motivated music is still around especially in underground hip hop and lyric wise is deeper and more intellectual, this type of music is just kept off the airwaves due to media conglomerates like clear channel
tritown19 1 year ago
god news for ya idiot, people havent changed that much.
KernalClaypool 5 months ago
@mkervelegan
Whats Ironic is your posting this from a Chinese made Computer....
HalfBornUnicornFetus 5 months ago
@mkervelegan Well....I can gainsay this statement of pessimism: as of the past week, the 'Occupy' movement has shown worldwide that people are far from asleep and shortsighted!!!!!!!
sendanor 3 months ago
@sendanor: and I am happy to be brought up short in this sense, pleased but not entirely surprised to note that our western societies are not totally senescent and complacent, especially those of a younger age who will have to sort out all our shite...
mkervelegan 3 months ago
@sendanor Maybe if the occupy protesters took the needle out someone might give them a job! Did anyone ever think of that?
sammy79ism 2 months ago
@sammy79ism You think like a 1% er
smejjens 2 months ago
I wish people wouldn't tell others what to think... it's so depressing. It is a great song, but the meaning "We can change the world" isn't the whole story until it's backed up. I only know recent Young songs, but like 'Restless Consumer' and 'Be The Rain' - ok, on different topics, but clearly point fingers at how people can bitch and rant all they like, but no one is actually willing to do anything about it. The west is a corrupt capitalism, and we let it go all too willingly.
WhyGenFM3 1 year ago 2
To those who think this is a great song...It is NOT the song..IT IS THE MESSAGE THAT IT CARRIES!!!!!!!
valeriemci1 1 year ago
it was robert f kennedy who was killed in 68...july 5
Renegade4860 1 year ago
Was there ... did that. S.D.S.
MrWCHarrison 1 year ago 2
Was there ... did that. That's the way it all was everywhere. S.D.S. Weatherman
MrWCHarrison 1 year ago
Classic rock protest song. CSN and sometimes Y were the epitome of the writers and musicians of protest music and much more. There great!
mddg1515 1 year ago
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RaMoNet1882 1 year ago
PaulNiem - Richard Daley was mayor of Chicago in 1968.
JWinter85 - Chicago looked pretty bad in 1968, no need for anyone to elaborate or exaggerate
kegill 1 year ago
NeoVisconteo - that's what "symbol" means. Yes, I'm rolling my eyes.
From Graham Nash: 4waysite.com/faq/faqsongs.htm
"The 'Jack' in my song Chicago is Jack Kennedy. Jack is a term used by many English people as a kind of generic word. Although Kennedy had been dead for years, his spirit lives on."
kegill 1 year ago 2
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Escobar88 1 year ago
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UFO89TR 1 year ago
ty for the best song
anastasios58 1 year ago
it wasn't about jfk... PAULNIEM is actually right. i hate when people don't get their info right before making a video. make us look bad in chicago for making shit like this
jwinter85 1 year ago
I think he's talking about the Chicago mayor who's first name was Jack? Doesn't make sense he's singing about JFK. Does anyone know?
PAULNIEM 1 year ago
love this song. it shows what true patriotism is, standing up to fight for the ideals that this country was built on, even if that means protesting against it.
irishchicanna 1 year ago
Truely A Great Share & I Agree With Gary ! Thankyou Gary...Anita.
anitashelby 1 year ago
A thought provoking share Gary - thank you
AstariaDestiny 1 year ago
great ,,,,ac e !!!
thanks babe x
blondiebabs 1 year ago
i agree bookkeeper57. Graham Nash wasnt singing about JFK. And the song is by Graham from his solo album "songs for beginners" album. ..who joined this group after leaving the Hollies.Its CSNY who no doubt sang it often including a 1968 concert as mentioned. Thanks for sharing the video & Peace.
1856gazoo 1 year ago
I love this video. I was an 11 yr. old kid in Chicago at the time and my mom wouldn't let me go downtown to the riots. I couldn't understand why my older sister would'nt go. This song is a classic that should inspire all generations past, present, and future. Play on and be aware....
cynderat57 1 year ago
@mozfreak84........I was 10 years old at the time and I got to watch the whole thing on black & white TV. What are the effects that young people are still feeling from the '60's?
40Waxx 1 year ago
@40Waxx have you watched any mlk speeches?
nothingbutaFENDER 1 year ago
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@ Neo.......Jack was a symbol for what might have been. I think it's called alliteration, but I've been out of school a awhile now.. We all knew what they meant, back then, though. That's for sure.........
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40Waxx 1 year ago
Who needs them
WiseCherokee 1 year ago
what the cpd did was unexceptable but as a chicagoan i dont want some english boy like this dude talking shit about us we dont go around writing songs about how corrupt the english govt is.
plaing89 1 year ago
chicago has always been full of badassedness. the MP's with street police in one giant mob, OMG
zacatetas 1 year ago
profound
MrBrianlowdown 1 year ago
I wasn't around during the time but as a young person, I have much respect for what young people during that time were trying to accomplish. Today we are still feeling the effects of the counterculture and other phenomena from the era.
mozfreak84 1 year ago
The really sad thing....when we grew up what did this generation give us as a leader? George W. Bush.
We can change the world? Did we?
Personally, I'm ashamed that we started out with so much hopeful vision and in the end we didn't turn out much different from the generation we were protesting against.
Steve915 1 year ago
@shmusiccleaner - You can be an apologist for the Chicago Police all you wish to be, but your observation about the protesters has no validity. The Daley Machine went out of its way to ensure the police would create a violent confrontation, and they manufactured exactly what they hoped for.
kirkesque 1 year ago
@kirkesque I'm not politically motivated enough to argue with you. Believe what you will. Cheers.
shmusiccleaner 1 year ago
CSNY were asked to play Grant Park, as were The Doors, but only 1 band actually showed up in Chicago and performed.
The MC5. "Kick Out the Jams, Muthafuckas!"
kirkesque 1 year ago
i love Graham Nash, but there is a better (more emotional/evocative) version of Chicago on the Four Way Street album
eyescandeceive 1 year ago
great song, but you failed to mention how the protestors threw cocktails of piss and shit at the police officers. i think that sort of behavior warrants mace and billy clubs, but perhaps i'm just a bit sensitive when it comes to having human feces thrown at me. cool footage though.
shmusiccleaner 1 year ago
@shmusiccleaner the over reaction of a police state warrants feces and piss cocktails. so the cycle begins
zacatetas 1 year ago
@zacatetas. Resorting to throwing one's waste as a form of protest or rebellion seems more in line with a monkey caged in a zoo. Not a human being debating politics. Throwing shit at a police officer does not affect a politician. Having intelligence and finding a way to get your message across that garners support, not disgust from the masses, would probably have been a better option.
shmusiccleaner 1 year ago
@shmusiccleaner had i been there; politics went out the window the second the police and daley pushed for mass violence
zacatetas 1 year ago
@zacatetas Ok. That's fine brother. I'll just have to remember to bring an umbrella if I ever get in an altercation with you. Merry Christmas.
shmusiccleaner 1 year ago
I think the reference to "Jack" actually refers to the politicians not calling upon his name to help them in their cause. Thinking they could play the JFK card to garner support.
mtngirljack1 1 year ago
This is by Graham Nash, not CSN.
carolcjh1 1 year ago
Here's one for you !!!! MAYBE MOHEGAN SUN DEPARTMRNT MANAGERS SHOULD HERE THIS SONG AND S T O P H E A S S I N G THE HELP !!!
THE EMPLOYEES THEY SAY WE ARE THE CORE OF THERE SUCCESS !!!! Ya Im pissed !!!! PROMOTE PASSIONATE AND DECATED EMPLOYEES !
Screwed me out of working the aerosmith concert sat. night GREAT SONG TODAYS WOLD NEEDS TO HEAR !!!!
seanpeebles 1 year ago
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seanpeebles 1 year ago
I've always liked this song, but wasn't born until '72 & never knew the smaller details (e.g., the "Jack" part). Thanks for educating.
ofthecosmos 1 year ago
strange and violent times,i pray our children grow up in a time of peace and love
kevsco665 1 year ago
What happened to the Yuppies? I had respect for them in the 60's but they have turned into Wall St arses.
jimbobubbadj 1 year ago
It's dying - to get better
bibass380 1 year ago
i am 15 years old.. and i LOVE this song.. i like this 4 people together and they make fantastic music.. i can't belive it *-*
kamonienha 1 year ago
@kamonienha I'm a 51 french woman, and still love this song... ! nice to see young people listen to good music like this !
Capucine444 1 year ago 28
@Capucine444 Hopefully the young people will heed it more than the Yuppies have.
jimbobubbadj 1 year ago
I'm so proud that my dad was there as a peaceful protestor. ;) And he is not one of the politicians today who are ruining our world.
zimmiechick 1 year ago
kanye sampled this and did it justice!
Plattinumstatus 1 year ago
Consider this an invitation to my Gangster Nation
iMixMaSteR1 1 year ago
Fabulous song. A Classic. Very Nice
JasonRomanFrost 1 year ago
MERAVIGLIOSO!!!!!!!!!