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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the leadup to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, historians and pundits persistently drew ominous parallels to the ...

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.

In the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and amid protests of the Vietnam War, Democrats came to Chicago for their national convention in August 1968. Inside the convention hall, ...

CHICAGO — I was here in Chicago’s Grant Park in 1968: sixteen years old, hair to my shoulders and putting out an underground newspaper, which we hoped could hold onto the comet tail of those times.

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 ...

CHICAGO ― In addition to crowning Vice President Kamala Harris as their presidential standard-bearer and unifying the party ahead of the general election, Democrats had one other goal for their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I directed the best political movie never released.” Filmmaker Haskell Wexler thus described Medium Cool, his violent feature set ...

CHICAGO — The whole world was watching, but this time, it liked what it saw. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. No cops clubbing ...

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.