But the 1968 Democratic National Convention happened a year before Drummond started at CBS Chicago—at the time, he was a young street reporter for WIND radio. Drummond was 38 years old at the ...

CHICAGO — Despite some protesters ... Protesters at the 2024 Democratic convention leaned into the legacy of 1968 in a bid to elevate the suffering in Gaza into the national discourse.

When Todd Gitlin went to Chicago at the end of August 1968 to join the protests outside the Democratic National Convention, he told friends he was going “with the instinct of the moth for the ...

The presidential election of 1968 was one of the most chaotic ... students and anti-war activists descended on the Democratic Convention in Chicago to pressure delegates into repudiating ...

The first Chicago Democratic convention was in 1864, when the party was split over the Civil War; since then, Democrats have flocked to the city 10 more times, including in 1968, when party ...

If an official date can be established for the beginning of the Democratic Party, it would be 1832, when the Democrats held their first nominating convention. The Democrats dominated American ...

which has drawn comparisons to the 1968 DNC. A Chicago convention deserves local Chicago coverage, and I’m here to help you decode the DNC. During the Democratic National Convention and through ...

By HANNAH SARISOHN Doug Emhoff, second gentleman of the US, speaks during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 20, 2024. (photo credit: Mike Segar ...