1968 DNC Part One: The Dress Rehearsal and the Previews

Chicago will host the 2024 DNC convention but is is worth exploring the most tear-gassed convention in 1968.

The parallels are amazing.

History rhymes.

Overview of The Walker Report

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ABC7: Days of Rage

Washington Post: ‘A party that had lost its mind’: In 1968, Democrats held one of history’s most disastrous conventions

ProPublilca: Looking at the Archives from the Time of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and Seeing Familiar Themes

Chicago Sun Times: Royko on Daley during the DNC

Bob Dylan: With God on Our Side 

ProPublica: Protests and Blaming the Media. Sound Familiar? That Was During the ’68 Democratic National Convention.

WTTW: When the Democratic Party Was Torn Apart

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