August 21, 2024
Vietnam War protesters and National Guard soldiers face off outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention near Grant Park in Chicago. (Photo: Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress)
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The Democratic National Convention In Chicago: Then and Now
CHICAGO (HUNS) — Agitated and disillusioned are two words to describe the national mood when the Democratic National Convention gathered in Chicago during the summer of 1968. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968 after marching with striking sanitation workers in Memphis. Eight weeks later, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was murdered moments after winning California’s primary election.