The Nation warned readers early on that the 1968 convention would be a debacle. Ad Policy Protesters clash with the National Guard outside the Democratic National Convention on August 28, 1968.(CBS ...

In the leadup to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, historians and pundits persistently drew ominous parallels to the disastrous Democratic convention of 1968, when police brutalized ...

Filmmaker Haskell Wexler thus described Medium Cool, his violent feature set during Chicago’s riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention. His movie opened (sort of) exactly 55 years ago this week.

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Red, white and bruising: at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, conflicts within the hall were amplified in violence on Chicago’s streets. AP Images Theodore Roosevelt giving a campaign speech.

Chicago saw two conventions last month: the one made up of elected delegates of the Democratic party and staged in the amphitheatre for the television world, the other made up of young people in the ...

The sky above Chicago is bright and blue as Democrats gather this week to pitch their vision for America on live TV over the next four nights. But no matter how high the hopes of the faithful, there ...

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Many commentators comparing the 1968 and 2024 Chicago conventions have breathlessly feared that 2024 will see chaos and violence. Lost in the hype is the one scenario that really does link the two ...