A demonstrator at the Democratic National Convention fights off tear gas as he walks in front ... via Chicago History Museum Supported by By Julie Bosman and Robert Chiarito It was August 1968 ...

Still, for months, many pundits predicted a Democratic National Convention in Chicago this year would devolve into a scene out of 1968’s Vietnam era convention held in the city with days of ...

As Democrats gather in Chicago for their national convention ... in the Democratic Party. Today, there is much more diversity and inclusion in society, Barrett said. Humphrey lost the 1968 ...

Federal, state and local authorities are hoping to keep Chicago violence to a minimum ... it is forgotten that there was a Democratic Convention between 1968 and now," Police Superintendent ...

In 1968, about 9,000 to 10,000 protesters against the Vietnam War famously filled the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. The city’s police department responded with ...

My father’s life intersected with the tumult of the 1968 Democratic National ... the scheduled lineup of protests at Chicago’s Democratic National Convention, I was reminded of the football ...

Chicago has hosted more presidential nominating conventions than any other U.S. city, going back to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago ...

CHICAGO — I was here in Chicago’s Grant Park in 1968: sixteen years old ... But the signature images of this year’s 2024 Democratic convention have been in the convention hall: the state ...

As Chicago hosts the 2024 Democratic ... on the 1968 convention-related violence took a much less charitable view of police action. Findings of a 1968 study group on the convention riots ...

2024 could rival the political tumult of 1968 as Democrats launch their convention in Chicago ... King Jr. fuelled riots. Palestinian Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Democratic presidential ...