WBEZ.com Abe Peck, who was editor of the Chicago Seed underground paper in 1968, says his staff gave apple pies to police "to really try to say, hey, we're not antagonistic. It was more than an olive branch. I mean we genuinely, and it all sounds very fragile and dafodilish now, but more than an olive branch I think it was a statement of principle on our part."
Peck, now a Medill professor emeritus-in-service, says the police were suspicious of what might be in the pies so they gave them to a Catholic charity.
