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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 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.

  4. 1968 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie wave from the podium at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. When the 1968 Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago, thousands of young activists from around the nation gathered in the city to protest the Vietnam War. On the evening of August 28, in a clash ...

  5. Hubert Humphrey 1968 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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    The June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy left McCarthy as Humphrey's only major opponent. That changed at the 1968 Democratic National Convention when Senator George McGovern of South Dakota entered the race as the successor of Kennedy. Humphrey won the party's nomination at the convention on the first ballot, amid protests in Chicago.

  6. 100 years of voting in the presidential election in Monroe County

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    This is one of those exceptional election years where the majority of Monroe County dropped their votes in the Democrat box, with Johnson being the highest-voted Democrat in the county for the ...

  7. The tattooed, beer-slinging Democrat who wants no part ... - AOL

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    Far from the convention, a Democrat runs from Harris and hands out beer in rural Maine By Alex Seitz-Wald. PHILLIPS, Maine — As most of his fellow Democrats prepared to gather in Chicago, Rep ...

  8. The whole world is watching - Wikipedia

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    Chicago police drag an anti-Vietnam war protester across Michigan Avenue on August 28, 1968, during the Democratic National Convention as the crowd chants "The whole world is watching". " The whole world is watching " was a phrase chanted by anti-Vietnam War demonstrators as they were beaten and arrested by police outside the Conrad Hilton ...

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