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The 1968 Chicago convention became a lacerating event, a distillation of a year of heartbreak, assassinations, riots and a breakdown in law and order that made it seem as if the country were ...
- Haynes Johnson
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Earlier that year incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, thus making the purpose of the convention to select a new presidential nominee for the Democratic Party . [ 1 ]
Aug 18, 2024 · The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago occurred when divisions over the Vietnam War sparked major protests in the city.
Aug 28, 2018 · By Maggie Astor. Aug. 28, 2018. CHICAGO — Inside the convention hall, the choreography of American politics stumbled on. Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic presidential...
Feb 23, 2024 · Multiple protest movements combined during the summer of 1968 in Chicago, erupting in the Chicago Riots at the Democratic National Convention, where the party nominated a non-candidate for president.
- Owen Rust
Feb 23, 2018 · Two assassinations, a bloody war, violent protests, racial unrest, colorful hippies, a celebration of sex and rebellion, and John Lennon’s countercultural anthem, “Revolution”—1968 had them all. It...
Aug 25, 2008 · Many Democrats saw the unruly 1968 convention in Chicago as one of the reasons they lost the presidential election to Richard Nixon that year.
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