Besides the archival footage of Ochs and the interviews with others involved in the folk movement , the film features extensive news clips of the events of the times , including the Civil Rights struggle in the South , assassination of President John F. Kennedy , rallies protesting US military involvement in Vietnam , assassinations of Rev. Martin Luther King , Jr. and Bobby Kennedy , shootings of students at Kent State , and the " police riot " at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago . Ochs became a part of the inner circle that sought to defeat US policies , and the film shows interviews with some of the movement 's central figures , several of whom were close friends with Ochs , including Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin , co-founders of the Youth International Party , and Tom Hayden , who went on to become a California State Senator
1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune