CBS Early Show Removes Anti-War Protesters from View in Kansas City

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“We started assembling the banners in the park,” Harritt says, “and immediately, a CBS staff person said, ‘You can’t be here. You can’t have those here.’ ”

Harritt and the other activists challenged her, saying, “This is a public park. We have a right to be here,” he recalls. And the anti-war activists had a lawyer with them who defended their right to be there.

They reached a compromise. The CBS employee, along with security, allowed them to stay in the park so long as they did not get into camera view.

“I promise you the TV cameras will not span this area,” the CBS employee said.

That’s not exactly what the protesters had hoped for.

“I was very disappointed,” says Harritt. “CBS was censoring what messages Kansas Cityans were bringing to the Early Show.”

Harritt says other signs were allowed to be seen on camera.

“One was supporting the Navy,” he says. “One said, ‘Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.’ There were signs for things for sale, and commercial signs.”

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