This is the story of two assaults on the organised working class around the little town of Peekskill in New York State late summer 1949. After a concert for the Civil Rights Congress was attacked by a mob the workers of New York responded by restaging the event under their own control. The response to this act of defiance was a second mass assault one that was preplanned and saw the rioters the police and the local media working together to unleash a brutal and bloody vengeance on the concertg