November 2, 1972: AIM Occupies the BIA

https://washingtonareaspark.com/2013/03/26/native-americans-take-over-bureau-of-indian-affairs-1972/

Rising Up Angry Newspaper

Front page of Rising Up Angry's newspaper May 14, 1972.  The escalation referred to was the bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITSb--T7pGix1xc0A4BtwF2fWh2PAcqL/view?usp=sharing

After Sixteen Months, Angela Davis Released....February 23, 1972

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UMhezV8vUSXf1THLNlbzyAJv4bjnVb1n

March 1972--Against the Company and the Union Leadership--Youngstown Wildcats

https://libcom.org/history/heart-heart-country-strike-lordstown

February 28, 1972: Angela Davis Goes on Trial

On February 28, 1972 Angela Davis went on trial for murder......

Here is a link to a relatively objective look at the case (for a mainstream news presentation) and the worldwide movement to free Angela..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlUUdOdGI70

Here is a link to a page from the Berkeley Tribe underground newspaper about the opening of the trial..

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B01dj5QyuLDeQVRRbVpzNUo0Qmc

I wrote about Angela Davis in my books The Way the Wind Blew and Daydream Sunset.

The Free Angela movement in Germany is part of the context in my novel All the Sinners Saints

The Christmas Bombings of Vietnam 1972

I was 17 years old in 1972 and I was pissed off.  It was getting near Christmas and every day that I turned the news on the radio I would hear about another flurry of bombing raids on northern Vietnamese cities by hundreds of US bombers.  Hospitals were being bombed.  Civilian neighborhoods were being destroyed and Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and the rest of the war pigs were getting ready for their particular holidays.  I recall going to a protest in downtown Frankfurt against the bombings.  Particularly galling was the targeting of the hospitals.  Indeed, Bach Mai hospital was attacked more than once, killing more than 25 doctors and an unknown number of patients.  Here is a recollection from Vietnam Veteran Against the War Barry Romo, who was in Hanoi during the bombings.
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=2204

Remembering Another Shitty Election Night--November 7, 1972

After Trump won the election, I was asked if the 2016 results were the most distressing I had ever seen.  I told them that it was actually the 1972 election that held that honor.....with the 1980 Reagan victory over Carter the next.  I may have to rearrange those rankings, with the 2016 results somewhere in that top three....
Here's a remembrance of George McGovern and that horrible night...

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/mcgovern-anti-war-candidacy-us-cultural-landmark

Takeover of Bureau of Indian Affairs....Mutiny on the USS Constellation: November 1972

On November 2, 1972, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington , DC.
https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/native-americans-take-over-bureau-of-indian-affairs-1972/

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, sailors were staging a mutiny on board the USS Constellation.  This was after a riot on board the Kitty Hawk a couple weeks earlier....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDeWXJvWXl4SE9KZEU/view?usp=sharing

August 23, 1972: Last Official US Combat Troops Leave Vietnam

Although the combat troops had left, there were still several tens of thousands of troops in country, not to mention CIA mercenaries, Special Forces, and others.  In addition, the bombing would go on for years, including the Christmas bombings at the end of 1972--some of the heaviest bombing raids in the history of bombing raids.  I thought I would link to this pamphlet written by Overseas Weekly writer Richard Boyle describing GI resistance to the war....Overseas Weekly was an unofficial newspaper written for GIs and sold in the PX alongside the official Stars & Stripes.....The resistance Boyle writes about is part of the reason the war was Vietnamized and US troops were slowly removed from in country....while the killing dragged on....

https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam

Hunter S. Thompson 1972

As I noted in the post prior to this, Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer are my go-to writers when it comes to topnotch US presidential campaign coverage.  I linked to an excerpt from Mailer's book on 1972, St. George and the Godfather yesterday.  Today, I am providing a link to a collection of random excerpts from Hunter S. Thompson's classic Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/timewarp-campaign-72-19730705

enjoy it and weep

Norman Mailer and the 1972 Political Conventions

Two people come to my mind when the subject of writing about US major party political conventions--Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer.  As the 2016 convention season closes down (thankfully), I thought I would post this 1972 piece from the New York Review of Books (when it was a radical liberal broadsheet instead of the neoliberal rag it has become) on Nixon at the 1972 GOP convention in Miami.  It is excerpted from his book on that year's conventions titled St. George and the Godfather.  
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/11/02/the-genius/