Iowa Public Television

Iowa resident featured on August 16 "History Detectives" episode.

Tim Schmitt of Des Moines will be interviewed for the August 16 episode of History Detectives, airing at 8 p.m. Tim's story involves a political poster. A description is below.

The words and images on this poster draw battle lines. We see a photo of what looks like a stern police officer, a clenched fist, and the wording: “Hot Town – Pigs in the Streets…But the streets belong to the people! Dig it?”

Who made this poster and why?

We see one more clue along the bottom: the words “Sunshine Jubilee.”

History Detectives talks with an expert on political graphics, meets a retired police officer that worked for the Chicago police during the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and finally narrows to one individual who brings all the pieces together.