Creative liberties? Amazon takes a few in its new series “Good Girls Revolt,” about a group of women who sue over their treatment at a male-dominated newsweekly in 1969-70.
Genevieve Angelson plays Patti, a young journalist seen in the pilot marching to work through midtown Manhattan … past a fairly large anti-Vietnam War protest. In December 1969? We can’t find any record of such a protest during that month. However, six months later, in May 1970, New York was shaken by the Hard Hat Riot, when hundreds of construction workers attacked students protesting the shooting deaths at Kent State.