For some Americans, just saying “Chicago 68” is enough to bring it all back.Add the words, “Democratic National Convention” and millions more can visualize brawling delegates, billowing ...

For some Americans, just saying “Chicago 68” is enough to bring it all back.Add the words, “Democratic National Convention” and millions more can visualize brawling delegates, billowing clouds of tear ...

Chicago has hosted more presidential nominating conventions than any other U.S. city, going back to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago ...

Allen Ginsberg outside the Democratic National Conventione Chicago Convention on August 25, 1968 in Chicago. Santi Visalli / Getty Images "That's when all hell broke loose," Drummond said.

For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas.I'm talking about the book When the News ...

In a column for Variety, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather recalls the turmoil of the 1968 Democratic Convention, where he was roughed up on the floor.

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.

In the months leading up to DNC 2024, "Chicago '68" has been repeatedly conjured. But there is nothing in this political climate to compare to '68 and the all-encompassing anxiety over Vietnam.

The 1968 Democratic National Convention took place from Aug. 26 through Aug. 29. Protesters gathered in Lincoln Park and Grant Park, and police cracked down. "That's when all hell broke loose ...