When Democrats met that year, the violence that erupted between protesters and the police ... via Chicago History Museum Supported by By Julie Bosman and Robert Chiarito It was August 1968 ...

The 1968 report on the conflict written by Chicago Corporation ... the tone when he told police to "shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to maim looters" in response to riots after King's assassination.

The violence at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 shocked a fractured country. In a decade that had seen its share of bloody riots over the fight for civil rights, the Chicago Police ...

During the 1968 Democratic National ... Hoffman was later among the “Chicago Seven,” who were charged with starting riots. “Some police beat people bloody. Some demonstrators fought back ...

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 ...

Chicago has hosted ... to disrupt the convention. Police were also angry, feeling they had been held back from responding in full force earlier that year during the riots following King`s ...

"I just can't believe the parallels with 1968," the Wilmington College professor ... that August was tumultuous inside and out. Chicago police were seen on live TV beating, tear-gassing and ...

There had been a series of riots after the back ... tactics during the 1968 convention. One key difference, according to Ms Kamarck, is that the Chicago police employed "very, very thuggish ...

Add the words, “Democratic National Convention” and millions more can visualize brawling delegates, billowing clouds of tear gas and police batons ... Prior to 1968, Chicago had easily hosted ...

Casting their eyes to the past, observers search for comparisons to today’s uprisings in the chaos of 1968 ... in Chicago, the state militia was called in to police the riots.