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  2. 1968 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. 1968 Democratic National Convention protests - Wikipedia

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    The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August 23 to August 29, 1968, and drew an estimated 7,000 to ...

  4. 1968 Chicago riots - Wikipedia

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    The 1968 Chicago riots, ... around the Democratic National Convention, Chicago would once again be a place for political protest and clashes with the authorities.

  5. 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries - Wikipedia

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    After an inconclusive and tumultuous campaign focused on the Vietnam War and marred by the June assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey was nominated at the 1968 Democratic National Convention held from August 26 to August 29, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois.

  6. Democrats Feared Another 1968 Convention. They Got ... - AOL

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    The 1968 convention, with its images of anti-Vietnam War protesters being attacked by Chicago police and fistfights in the convention hall that filled Americans’ televisions, has become a ...

  7. Dan Rather Looks Back at Turbulent 1968 Democratic Convention ...

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    He also famously was roughed up during the 1968 Democratic National … Dan Rather Looks Back at Turbulent 1968 Democratic Convention, Says Biden-Harris Switch Was ‘Almost Anticlimactic’ in ...

  8. How protesters and Chicago police defied predictions of chaos ...

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    Comparisons were drawn to the 1968 Chicago convention, when national unrest during the civil rights movement and over the Vietnam War sowed an atmosphere of violence and chaos.

  9. Protests of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    In August, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was disrupted by five days of street demonstrations by thousands of protesters. Chicago's mayor, Richard J. Daley, escalated the riots with excessive police presence and by ordering up the National Guard and the army to suppress the protests. [16]