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	1968 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anti-war demonstrators protested throughout the convention, clashing with police all around the convention center, the Chicago International Amphitheater (in the streets, as well in Lincoln Park and Grant Park).
		The confusion of the convention, and the unhappiness of many liberals with the outcome, led the Democrats to begin reforms of their nominating process, increasing the role of primaries and decreasing the power of party delegates in the selection process.
		One person that did not attend the convention was President Lyndon Johnson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention (727 words)

	United States presidential election, 1968 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Americans were shocked by television footage of Chicago police brutally beating anti-war protesters in the streets of Chicago.
		The U.S. presidential election of 1968 was a wrenching national experience, and included the assassination of liberal Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy, the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, as well as widespread demonstrations against the Vietnam War across American university and college campuses.
		Meanwhile, the convention itself was marred by the strong-arm tactics of Chicago's mayor Richard J. Daley (who was seen on television angrily cursing Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, who made a speech at the convention denouncing the excesses of the Chicago police).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1968 (1204 words)

	Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most historically notable--and tumultuous--convention of recent memory was the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, which was fraught with highly emotional battles between conventioneers and Vietnam war protesters and a notable outburst by Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley.
		The primary goal of the Democratic National Convention is to nominate and confirm a candidate for President and Vice President, adopt a comprehensive party platform and unify the party.
		The Democratic National Convention is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years administered by the Democratic National Committee of the United States Democratic Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_National_Convention (897 words)

	The 1968 Democratic Convention
		Confrontation at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago
		Photos of The 1968 Democratic Convention by Jo Freeman
		The National Guard keeps the people away from the headquarters hotel while Democratic delegates hear the nominating speeches miles away.
	www.jofreeman.com /photos/convention68.html (477 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the summer of 1968, Chicago held the "68 Democratic National Convention, and while the world watched on their T.V. the public saw the chaos the United States was in.
		August 27, 1968 members of the protest wanted to march through the streets south to the Ampitheatre to speak to the deli gates, where the convention was being held.
		1996 was the first time the convention was held in Chicago since the riots in 1968.
	l3d.cs.colorado.edu /systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/chicago68/background.html (525 words)

	1968
		1968, August: Disturbances at the Democratic National Convention (Chicago Public Library)
		In August, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was marred by clashes between Vietnam War protesters and Mayor Daley's police force.
		2) CPL Chicago: 1968 August: Disturbances at the Democtratic National Convention
	www.42explore2.com /1968.htm (683 words)

	NewsHour Online: Retrospective on the 1968 Democratic Convention
		But the 1968 Democratic convention was less notable for its politics than for its televised display of social unrest and national disunity.
		The Democrats are gathering for their first national Convention in Chicago since 1968 when violence overshadowed politics and the city became a microcosm of national fractiousness spawned by the Vietnam War.
		Chicago also played host to the Democratic convention in 1946, when FDR waved aside the precedent set by George Washington and decided to run for a third term.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/convention96/retro/chicago.html (405 words)

	1968 Democratic National Convention Video Clips
		The 1968 Convention was the last of the Democratic Conventions that was largely determined by party bosses rather than by Primaries.
		Day Three of the Democratic National Convention was the day the debate and vote occurred on the "Vietnam Plank" of the Democratic platform, and the night Vice President Hubert Humphrey was nominated to run for President.
		The resulting chaos overwhelmed nominating activities inside the convention since it was televised.
	kronykronicle.com /1968/DemConvIntro.html (148 words)

	AllPolitics - Democratic National Convention
		The 1968 Democratic Convention, held on August 26-29th, stands as an important event in the nation's political and cultural history.
		The primary cause of the demonstrations and the subsequent riots during the 1968 Chicago convention was opposition to the Vietnam War.
		Many Democrats were eager to move their national convention from Chicago to Miami, where the Republicans were to hold their nominating event.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/chicago68/index.shtml (2110 words)

	JURIST - The Chicago Seven
		Also in 1968, two groups met to discuss using the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Chicago to highlight their opposition to the Viet Nam War and establishment values.
		Thirty years ago this month, on February 18, 1970, the jury returned its compromise verdict in the trial of seven radicals charged with federal crimes in connection with rioting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
		These are some of the questions that surround one of the most unusual courtroom spectacles in American history, the 1969-70 trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials2.htm (3695 words)

	Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention: Chronology
		Afterwards, MOBE begins to talk about antiwar protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where President Johnson is expected to be nominated for a second term.
		August 15: At a convention of the National Student Association, Allard K. Lowenstein and Curtis Gans formally launch the "Dump Johnson" movement—an effort to oppose the renomination of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson.
		In the Convention at the Amphitheatre, the peace plank proposed for the Democratic party platform is voted down.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1553/c68chron.html (3903 words)

	Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention: An Introduction
		They called it "Czechago." Nowhere else during that decade was dissension so dramatically opposed as on the streets of Chicago during the turbulent Democratic National Convention in August 1968.
		A chronology detailing the events of Convention Week and placing them in the context of other events of the late Sixties.
		For the Democratic party, Chicago '68 doomed the candidacy of Hubert Humphrey and set off shock waves of reform.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1553 (486 words)

	News & Features Free radicals
		LIKE PILGRIMS, they looked at society with the eyes of children: society was absurd," Norman Mailer wrote of the countercultural army that protested the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
		Members chose Thursday, July 29, as the "Day of Action" because of its historical precedent: the riots of the 1968 Democratic National Convention had erupted on nomination day.
		Before the 2000 Republican National Convention, undercover cops had insinuated themselves into activist conclaves and pre-emptively arrested many protest coordinators on trumped-up conspiracy charges.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/04052845.asp (981 words)

	"History They Didn't Teach You in School"--August 29th: 1968 Democratic Conventi : Houston Indymedia
		The Yippies received tremendous media coverage, especially for their plans to disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago with dancing bears and a pig--named "Pigasus"--that they would nominate for president and then eat.
		On August 29th 1968, Hubert Humprey accepted the Democratic nomination for president in Chicago, while outside the Chicago police, acting on orders from Mayor Richard Daley, were beating hundreds of antiwar demonstrators in the streets in one of the more famous and horrid scenes of the 1960s.
		As the war dragged on, with the death and destruction of Vietnam growing, protestors began to plan on making a strong antiwar statement at the Democratic convention scheduled for August in Chicago.
	houston.indymedia.org /news/2003/08/15160.php (923 words)

	George McGovern -
		At the 1968 Democratic National Convention, McGovern stood as the flagbearer for some of the supporters of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, losing the Presidential nomination to Hubert H. Humphrey, and coming in behind Minnesota Senator Eugene J. McCarthy as well.
		George Stanley McGovern (born July 19, 1922) was a United States Congressman, Senator, and Democratic presidential candidate, losing the 1972 presidential election to incumbent Richard Nixon.
		These changes eventually facilitated McGovern's successful own nomination at the 1972 Convention.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/George_McGovern (1263 words)

	California and New York Delegations Protest the Majority Plank's passage
		According to eyewitness accounts, the demonstrators were forced into a location between the police on one side and the National Guard on the other.
		12,000 Chicago police plus 6500 National Guard troops were sent to Chicago to keep 'law and order' Approximately 10,000 demonstrators were involved in a "march" which started in Grant Park and reached a climax on Michigan and Balboa Streets outside the Hilton Hotel.
	kronykronicle.com /1968/PoliceState.html (77 words)

	THE HISTORY CHANNEL - VIDEO & SPEECHES - Julian Bond is nominated for U.S. vice presidency
		The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was the most tumultuous and violent in U.S. history.
		In Chicago in 1968, Bond was nominated for the U.S. vice presidency as a protest candidate by Wisconsin delegate Ted Warshafsky on the third day of the convention.
		The convention scene inside the International Amphitheater was not much more cordial, with delegates bitterly split between Humphrey and his antiwar rival, Senator Eugene McCarthy.
	www.historychannel.com /broadband/clipview/index.jsp?id=cd2track29 (318 words)

	1968 Democratic Convention
		The media burned these images of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago into our consciousness at the same time Americans came to realize just how much the Vietnam War was tearing the nation apart.
		As the 1968 Democratic National Convention approached, events throughout the nation combined to create a tense atmosphere in Chicago.
		and Robert Kennedy, and the failure of the Democratic Party to apply its civil rights policy had an effect both inside and outside of the International Amphitheatre, where the convention delegates gathered.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/608569/posts (3860 words)

	NPR's Election 2000 Coverage: Democratic National Convention
		The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago is remembered more for the violent riots on the streets that took place than it is for political events inside the hall.
		The sometimes bloody confrontations were captured on TV and prompted Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut to denounce the police crackdown, using the phrase "Gestapo tactics." An outraged Daley shook his fist at Ribicoff and shouted at him from the convention floor.
		Humphrey went on to lose a close race to the resurgent Richard Nixon in the 1968 general election.
	www.npr.org /news/national/election2000/demconvention/past.1968.html (367 words)

	NewsHour Online: Terry Southern reports from the 1968 Democratic Convention
		NewsHour Online: Terry Southern reports from the 1968 Democratic Convention
		Michael Cooper took this photograph during the Chicago Convention of 1968.
		By now, of course, the National Guard was there in great strength, massed three deep along the Michigan Boulevard side of the park, while on the opposite side, in front of the Hilton, were the police, or "the Pigs" as they were now known by all.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/convention96/retro/southern.html (4155 words)

	Chicago Police Prepare For Convention
		The Democratic National Convention, along with President Bill Clinton, comes to the City of Chicago in August.
		Though everyone seems to remember what some people called "a police riot" at the 1968 convention -- the same people tend to forget that nearly 200 CPD officers were injured in the confrontations.
		Already, federal law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Secret Service, are asking foreign intelligence agencies for any information about possible international plots to disrupt the convention.
	www.emergency.com /cpd-conv.htm (468 words)

	AllPolitics - Back in TIME for Sept. 6, 1968
		Long before the Democratic Convention assembled, the protest leaders who organized last week's marches and melees realized that they stood no chance of influencing the political outcome or reforming "the system." Thus their strategy became one of calculated provocation.
		It was through such clout that he secured the Democratic convention for Chicago.
		Yet the cops' excesses during the Democratic Convention were not basically Conlisk's doing.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9609/06 (3705 words)

	Convention is on; Kennedy Rebuffs Draft Movement
		Slide Show: Scenes of Protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention (10 photos)
		Humphrey told him this afternoon that he thought the unit rule should not be abolished until the convention in 1972.
		HICAGO, Tuesday, Aug. 27 -- The Democratic National Convention, unsettled by a brushfire movement to draft Senator Edward M. Kennedy for President, plunged into fights on its rules and on the seating of disputed delegations soon after it opened last night.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/camp/680828convention-dem-ra.html (2249 words)

	Battleground Chicago — www.greenwood.com
		Kusch's history of white Chicago policemen and the 1968 Democratic National Convention is a solid addition to a growing literature on the cultural sensibility and political perspective of the conservative white working class in the last third of the twentieth century.
		The 1960s were a pivotal decade in US history, 1968 was the paradigmatic year of that decade, and the protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago were among the highlights of that unusually tumultuous year.
		Battleground Chicago The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/C8138.aspx (712 words)

	John M. Meek Collection
		The John M. Meek Collection is a small collection which includes material on aspects of the organization of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, from hotel accommodations to first aid and security to requests from committees and entertainers to appear at the convention.
		He became coordinator for the 1968 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago.
		During the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Meek was the assistant to the publicity director.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/meek.htm (479 words)

	Gulf War resister urges protest at GOP gathering, 2 Aug 04
		The group is comparing the gathering to the one that took place outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which symbolized "a juncture when things changed," Paterson said.
		The group's immediate goal is to send at least a million protesters from across the country to New York City at the end of this month to coincide with the Republican National Convention.
		The case generated national attention, with some accusing him of being a disgrace and a coward, while others praised him as a hero for standing up for his beliefs.
	www.notinourname.net /rnc/urges-protest-2aug04.htm (531 words)

	Davis & Davis and the Undemocratic Democratic National Convention Show : LA IMC
		Davis & Davis and the Undemocratic Democratic National Convention Show : LA IMC
		Davis & Davis and the Undemocratic Democratic National Convention Show
		The National Conventions are tightly controlled media campaigns designed to consolidate the electorate base for November.
	la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=418 (698 words)

	Book Review: Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
		Frank Kusch's Battleground Chicago is an attempt to give the "other side" of the 1968 Democratic National Convention by seeking to interview a group of participants that have been largely ignored in previous studies, the Chicago Police Department, whom he interviewed during the period of 1999 to 2003.
		Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
		Book Review: Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
	www.equalized.org /scribbles/reviews/battleground_chicago.php (934 words)

	Residents remember 1968 convention
		ONEONTA — National Democratic conventions weren’t always as patterned as this week’s in Boston, but the high security and thousands of police officers bring back shades of Chicago in 1968.
		Unlike this week’s convention, Shea said, the division in 1968 was inside the Democratic Party.
		Looking at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, both men said Kerry’s issues aren’t the same circumstances as Humphrey’s were.
	www.thedailystar.com /news/stories/2004/07/27/ccc.html (1057 words)

	Georgetown: The Robert N. Butler Papers
		Contents: Letters from designated delegates to the Democratic National Convention of 1968, responding to a letter from Robert N. Butler, in which he expresses his support for Sen. Eugene McCarthy.
		The Robert N. Butler Papers consist of the letters, articles, typescript drafts and political fliers collected by Dr. Butler during the Summer and Fall of 1968, during his tenure as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
		Box 2 of the collection contains materials amassed by Butler at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/butler.htm (811 words)

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