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1987 Campaign

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how I have been here, and what I have reached and what I want to achieve.

But now ladies and gentlemen, we're going to have Johnny Holliday do some of his fabulous dining dance music.

So this exceeded all expectations.

Turn the music off! The walkie talkie gang is here.

All the way tomorrow? All the way.

Thank you.

Thank you a lot.

Thank you.

And we're going to make it work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're coming.

I think I have a very good chance and I think the polls indicate that there is very strong support.

Your cousin? I would suggest to you that very possibly he may file a lawsuit but it would be a big bluff.

He will not follow through on it.

I think he's going to be charged against you.

You must be in a cauldron.

We'll be upstairs.

We're taking the escalator.

Come this way.

I can't swear.

She cannot even add, you know, simple and the people believed it.

I mean I just told it over and over.

Is it a billion dollars? That poor girl.

A big lie.

I think I have a very good chance and I think the polls indicate that there is very strong support.

I think I have a very good chance and I think the polls indicate that there is very good Sir.

Is it...

Why doesn't it come out and as objectively as possible try and portray both campaigns In an equal basis as opposed to taking the particular side of Harold Washington sugarcoating all the failures of his accomplishments I'll tell you something right now as a burst as the American media happens to be to President Reagan if he had gone in To the kind into reelection with the kind of record that Harold Washington had you would have wasted no time You Yes Oh Oh Not your turn there Oh I can't I guess you cannot win.

We've said all along we have to see When you say why are you missing a Climate which would be conducive to bringing new industry and jobs Oh Just if there's something right about me as a matter of fact They were wrong about me in 83 when they said I'd win and they were wrong about me in 79 when they said I'd lose Is there anything you said you wouldn't do it? When to start is huh with pick just a few What is your name? F.

How you doing? Good to see you.

Same office as almost us.

Looks good.

How you doing? Nice to see you.

I promise in here that when I get in there...

Tom Irish, I've been pushing San Diego away, so what the hell's the difference? You can sell a product on television.

Whether it be a political product, a candidate, or a bar of soap.

And it doesn't necessarily have to be a good bar of soap.

The television will be an effective means of selling that bar of soap or candidate.

I think that the commercials...

...of the inspectional services department.

All the men and work committee men of the great sixth ward Eugene Sawyer.

All the men and work committee men on the third ward.

None other than...

We didn't get to see him.

I'd like to come inside by you.

I'll come inside next week.

I'd pretend like you're paying a ticket and we can talk.

Don't forget I'll be doing that.

Bye, ladies.

Bye -bye.

...back to the yard.

For every place in the city, and tell someone, and tell them that Chicago is on the road to becoming one of the greatest cities in the world.

And if you give me four more years, I will take this diversified city and all its beauty and bring it together into a giant OCEAN.

We're going to bring it together, working together, for our city to make.

We're going to bring it to the city.

Your looks, your nativity, your ethnicity, your linguistic proficiency, your sex, and everything else.

You said we would be fair across the board in terms of services, in terms of jobs, in terms of contracts.

The emphasis has been to rebuild the city of Chicago, to rebuild the neighborhoods of the city of Chicago, which had been neglected for so long.

So I am very pleased here today to introduce Mayor Harold Washington, who is responsible and has rededicated himself to four more years of community revitalization, the 22nd Ward and the city of Chicago.

Ladies and gentlemen, El Alcalde Harold Washington.

I have heard that some of the sisters are going to vote for Jane Byrne.

Well, I never presume upon a sister I'll always ask her what they're going to do.

Let me ask you now.

Yes.

If the sister's going to vote for Harold, stand up.

All right.

Thanks.

Don't forget.

What's over here? Hey, what? But I.

I believe the people of Chicago are going to say no to name calling and yes to good government.

Hey, how you doing? I'm going to shake your hand.

Good to see you.

Need your help now.

All the way.

Thank you.

All right.

I need your help.

All right.

I just got a heart.

I think this is a lot better, right? How you doing? Thank you.

Jane Byrne, who's Linda? Linda, nice to see you.

Let's step up.

Thank you.

How you doing, partner? We can have a sandwich and a beer in here? Yeah.

I can sit down? Yeah.

Great.

I just want to go in.

How you doing? Don't forget the vote, guys.

Thanks.

Hey.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Do it.

Do it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And off it.

And off it.

One, two, three.

Who's going to stand here? Till he arrives, Jackie and I will sing the duet from Lucia Delamomore.

I'll have one more.

Well, the significance is, you get the worst silly looking head.

That's how you're not walking with your own float.

I'm here with my friends, ain't you? Yo! A lot of drunken Irishmen acting crazy.

Look at that trampling line.

Oh my God.

Right here.

Right here.

Governor, wait a second.

Wait a second.

Hello, Big Jim.

Hey, Big Jim.

Move the colleagues, will you? Thank you.

Nice to meet you.

Now you're right.

Okay.

Here we go.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Bye -bye.

Bye -bye.

Bye -bye.

Bye -bye.

Bye -bye.

Yeah, I missed you all coming in.

Thank you.

All the way.

Very good to you.

Oh, hi.

How are you? Good to see you.

Nice to see you.

Bye -bye.

I wish you luck anyway.

Thank you very much.

Hi.

I'm sorry I missed you.

Here we go.

All the way.

All the way.

Thanks, guys.

What? Sure.

Go ahead.

Oh, wait.

She's got to know.

My family is very nice.

At Hex.

My family plays me for Chicago.

Oh, really? Terrific.

Congratulations.

The policemen are fine.

All the way.

Right.

Bye.

All the way.

Good luck to you.

All right.

Good luck.

Good luck.

Bye -bye.

Quick.

Quick.

All the way.

Good luck.

I see you up there.

All the way.

Good luck.

...drops out of the race in March.

Okay.

Before April.

And $5 since he stays in the race.

Because Drudoliak is working with Tom Hines to defeat this black man.

Ungawa.

Yeah.

Ha -ha -ha.

I'm betting that Drudoliak drops out of the race before the end of March.

Okay.

So you now want to know what my bet is? What is your? I bet that he doesn't drop out of the race.

I bet.

Shake hands on that.

He stays in.

This is a pigeon.

This is a pigeon.

Another sucker.

How much you bet? Black WC Fuels.

Keep in mind that this guy doesn't even pay his debts, let alone bets.

$5.

Now we're making a retroactive bet.

Yeah.

Retroactive $5.

Okay.

I can handle that.

Okay.

Get this camera work.

Hold it.

Now you go like this.

All right? And today's date.

This is, uh, what is this? March 3rd.

Drudoliak will be gone.

March 4th.

This is the 4th.

Drudoliak's dropping out.

He can't stand that black man on five.

This is crazy.

I'm going to walk in the wind.

I'm going to walk in the wind.

And I mean it.

There's Mr.

Orange.

Yeah.

Boy, he was at a bad campaign.

His own have turned on him.

I'm going to walk in the wind.

What you always wanted was the CTA right? Right? When's the first time? The day before.

I don't know.

Yeah, Joe.

Hi.

Hi, guys.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All the way.

It is so very, very nice to be back here with all of you as a candidate for mayor.

And it's very true that I think that when I was mayor...

Another? No? That's it? See you at the polls.

Punch 10.

What was that? Madison.

Madison and...

I don't want to be the last one left outside the car.

Yeah.

It's very moist.

Sounds beautiful.

Did anything for the city of Chicago as a mayor.

It's not the color.

It's just that Chicago crime and everything else gets worse.

The taxes, everything.

That's why I think we should change the mayor at this point.

Goddamn it!

Identifier
F.2005-08-0207
Date Of Production
1987
Abstract
Loosely assembled footage depicts the 1987 mayoral candidates Mayor Harold Washington, Jane Byrne, Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes, Donald Haider, and Ald. Edward Vrdolyak as they deliver speeches, canvas throughout neighborhoods, and attend various campaign events. Shots include the following: The Johnny Holliday Orchestra performs onstage; Haider prepares to ride Dondi, a Shrine Circus elephant, across State Street on March 18, 1987; Ald. Richard Mell screams for someone to turn the music off; kids hold up pro-Hynes signage during the South Side Irish St. Patrick’s Day Parade celebrations; Hynes visits a tortilla factory; Byrne accosts shoppers inside a Latin grocery store; Washington and fiancee Mary Ella Smith exchange a kiss at a campaign event; Hynes asserts he has a “very good chance” at winning the election to surrounding press in a loop office building lobby; Washington shakes hands with supporters; photographer Paul Natkin positions himself under a large format camera’s dark cloth in Daley Center Plaza; Vrdolyak attends a baseball game; Washington poses with donors for a hired event photographer; Governor James Thompson shakes hands with supporters; Washington and Byrne ride in the downtown St. Patrick’s Day Parade; Chicago Sun-Times reporter Harry Golden, Jr. explains television as an effective means of advertisement for mediocre politicians; Washington engages a church’s congregation; Vrdolyak marches with the Alumni Association of Saint Joseph’s College in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade; Don Terry takes bets about the mayoral election’s outcome with Lynn Sweet and other reporting staff in March 1987; Washington and Byrne cast ballots at their respective polling sites; Washington aide Christopher Chandler provides an interview on a Chicago River bridge as the sun sets; columnist Jon-Henri Damski prepares to interview near the Alexander Hamilton statue in Lincoln Park while Bill Stamets expresses frustration behind the camera.
Format
Super 8
Extent
400 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Mag Stripe
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Spanish
Element
Reversal Positives
Subject
Factories
Parades and processions
Political campaigns
Political elections
Politicians
Publicity
Preservation Sponsor

Related Collections
Subseries II: Footage


Related Places
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Loop
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Beverly
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Chicago ➜ Lincoln Park

Main Credits
Stamets, Bill (is filmmaker)

Participants And Performers
Chandler, Chris (is interviewee)
Damski, Jon-Henri (is interviewee)
Washington, Harold (is participant)
Byrne, Jane (is participant)
Hynes, Thomas (is participant)
Don Haider (is participant)
Mell, Richard (is participant)
Vrdolyak, Edward (is participant)
Smith, Mary Ella (is participant)
Miller, Alton (is participant)
Natkin, Paul (is participant)
Thompson, James R. (is participant)
Golden, Harry Jr. (is participant)
Orr, David (is participant)
Terry, Don (is participant)
Sweet, Lynn (is participant)
Chandler, Chris (is participant)
Damski, Jon-Henri (is participant)

 
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