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On December 4, 1968, three local chapters of SDS, including NYU SDS, disrupted a speech given by Ambassador Nguyen Huu Chi, the permanent observer for South Vietnam to the United Nations, at Loeb Student Center. Vietcong-flag waving protesters harassed Chi, pelted him with an egg, and draped him in a Nazi flag before Loeb employees led him out of the auditorium. The actions were carried out by SDS members in alliance with Co-Aim (aka the Committee to Aid the NLF), a group of "of-campus street people". |
| b/w photograph of Ambassador Chi in Loeb, Dec. 1968. NYU Archives Photo Collection. | |
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| After this first incident, the Co-Aim radicals and some SDSers disrupted the speech of James Reston, executive editor of the New York Times, who was addressing NYU alumni in another part of Loeb. The radicals used a sofa to break open the locked doors of the auditorium, where they confronted Reston, who eventually left. | |
