On May 8, 1970, New York mayor John Lindsay ordered that all flags on city buildings be lowered to half staff, in memory of the students who'd died in the Kent State shootings four days earlier.*
Construction workers at the World Trade Center building site got wind of the plan.
When anti-war protester assembled at the George Washington statue on Wall Street that day -- complete with Viet Cong flags -- suits and hard hats joined forces against the hippies, in one of the weirdest 70s events you've never heard of: the Hard Hat Riot.
File this one under...
"Stuff you won't ever see on CBC."
