Ad Policy Protesters clash with the National Guard outside the Democratic National Convention on August 28, 1968. (CBS Photo Archive) With the Democratic National Convention wrapping up in Chicago ...

He also famously was roughed up during the 1968 Democratic National Convention — which inspired Variety to ask Rather, still going strong at 92 (you can read his current “Steady” columns at ...

Michael James, 1968 Democratic Convention Demonstrator: You know, we thought of ourselves as revolutionaries in those days, and we were really irked by the Democratic Party and the war in Vietnam.

Editor’s Note: Protests are building at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In May, The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman wrote a short history of the 1968 DNC where—just like today ...

The events in and around the 1968 DNC in Chicago have endured as a landmark moment of political chaos and social change for America. Inside the convention hall, Democrats struggled mightily to ...

Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. reports on the paradoxical brotherhood of polished Democrats and barefoot “hippies” in Chicago, 1968.

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — For weeks, political experts have pointed to similarities between this year's DNC and the 1968 Democratic convention – both hosted in Chicago. Norman Provizer, a political ...

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.

The difference will be crucial. Almost exactly 56 years ago, I was at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, along with tens of thousands of other angry protesters against the war in ...

Politics / The Nation warned readers early on that the 1968 convention would be debacle. Richard Kreitner With the Democratic National Convention wrapping up in Chicago, many have pointed to ...

MICHAEL JAMES, 1968 Democratic Convention Demonstrator: You know, we thought of ourselves as revolutionaries in those days, and we were really irked by the Democratic Party and the war in Vietnam.