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.

SHOW NOTES:

Bill Kurtis remembers the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Part 1: 'The Whole World's Watching: 20 Years Later,' A 1988 CBS 2 Documentar

Part 2: 'The Whole World's Watching: 20 Years Later,' A 1988 CBS 2 Documentary

Part 3: 'The Whole World's Watching: 20 Years Later,' A 1988 CBS 2 Documentary

Part 4: 'The Whole World's Watching: 20 Years Later,' A 1988 CBS 2 Documentary

Part 5: 'The Whole World's Watching: 20 Years Later,' A 1988 CBS 2 Documentary

ABC7: Days of Rage

Boss

The Guardian: The Whole World is Watching

Politico: Looking Back and the 1968 DNC

Chicago Sun Times: Royko on Daley during the DNC

The LBJ Call

Dan Rather gets Punched

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

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

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

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