On 22 August 1984 , Johnson participated in a political demonstration called the " Republican War Chest Tour " in Dallas , Texas to protest the policies of several Dallas-area businesses and of the Ronald Reagan presidential administration . The demonstration was timed to coincide with the 1984 Republican National Convention being held in downtown Dallas . During the demonstration , approximately one hundred protestors marched in the streets , chanted slogans , and staged anti-nuclear weapons and anti-war die-ins at various corporate offices . Some protestors vandalized businesses by spray-painting building walls and knocking over potted plants and ashtrays . Johnson did not take part in the vandalism , but took an American flag that had been seized from a flagpole at one of the buildings by another protestor
1984 Republican National Convention
1984 Republican National Convention
Gregory Lee Johnson