Havel at Columbia



This Day in The Velvet Revolution, 1989

November 26, 1989: Communists begin negotiating a new government with opposition representatives

Havel and other Civic Forum leaders meet with Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec to negotiate a new government. After the meeting Havel appears with Dubček and Adamec before a crowd of one million on Letná Plain in Prague, where Adamec is booed from the podium.