ABSTRACT
On Sunday, October 27, 1968 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour opened with the
following teaser: A collage of newspaper headlines about Mexican students
rioting was followed by one of the show ’s w riter-com ics M urray Rom an
dressed as a M exican police official proclaiming, “The reason that the stu
dents of Mexico City are rioting this weekend is because of outside agitators.”
