The parallels are visible when looking back at 1968, when police attacked crowds of protesters demonstrating outside the DNC in Chicago. During that year, Americans saw a major escalation in the ...

Outside, Chicago police prepared ... have envisioned. The 1968 Chicago convention became a lacerating event, a distillation of a year of heartbreak, assassinations, riots and a breakdown in ...

For Americans, the world seemed to turn upside down in 1968. Martin Luther King ... was punctuated by violent encounters between Chicago police and anti-war demonstrators. A large minority ...

The year 1968 was already inflamed. After the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., riots erupted ... to be in Chicago for the DNC. Clashes between protesters and police seemed inevitable ...