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 ...

"Dan Walker talking about the police riots missed the whole point ... organizers of the protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago – Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Tom ...

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 ...

West Madison Street in Chicago was the flashpoint of the April 1968 riots ... Daley told reporters after the riots that he had ordered police, “to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with ...

"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 ...

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 ...

and Chicago’s Inspector General Deborah Witzburg now says it should be used to rid the force of cops with ties to contemporary extremist groups. At his police board hearing in 1968, Heath was ...

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 ...