The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) - 1969-08-19 - Hurricane Camille
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[0:00] I'm Chet Huntley, NBC News.
[0:04] Trouble broke out this evening in the
[0:05] historic main square of Prague,
[0:07] Czechoslovakia. Thursday night is the
[0:09] anniversary of the Soviet invasion. As
[0:12] offices and shops were closing in
[0:13] Prague, a few attempted to place flowers
[0:15] at the base of the statue of Saint
[0:17] Wenceslas, but they were pushed back by
[0:19] the police.
[0:21] The small crowd grew into thousands. The
[0:23] police were reinforced. Army units
[0:25] appeared in the side streets.
[0:27] NBC News reporter Sy Pearlman witnessed
[0:29] the encounter between angry
[0:30] Czechoslovaks and the police and
[0:32] telephoned this report.
[0:35] Hundreds of Czechoslovak police used
[0:37] rubber truncheons and tear gas tonight
[0:40] to break up a crowd of 5,000 people
[0:42] gathered in Prague's main square. Time
[0:44] and time again, police wearing white
[0:46] helmets charged into the crowd and hit
[0:48] them with nightsticks. A dozen armored
[0:51] personnel carriers drove up and down
[0:52] Wenceslas Square while thousands
[0:55] whistled and chanted Gestapo Gestapo at
[0:57] them. In a nearby side street, a dozen
[1:00] trucks filled with Czechoslovak soldiers
[1:02] were kept in readiness. Police went into
[1:04] action after several people tried to put
[1:06] flowers on the statue of Saint Wenceslas
[1:08] as a sign of protest against the Soviet
[1:10] occupation of the country. Sy Pearlman,
[1:13] NBC News, Prague.
[1:16] More violence and disturbances in
[1:17] Czechoslovakia are highly predictable as
[1:20] the Thursday anniversary of the Soviet
[1:21] invasion approaches. There are
[1:23] unconfirmed reports that Soviet and
[1:25] Polish armed forces are maneuvering in
[1:27] various parts of the country. It is