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3 hours ago · The chaos of the 1968 DNC in Chicago: John Drummond remembers 05:28. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Fifty-six years ago, the events of one week in August stained Chicago's image around the world—anti-Vietnam ...
8 hours ago · With Johnson's support, Humphrey won the presidential nomination at the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, held in Chicago in late August. Violent police attacks against anti-war protesters in Chicago marred the convention. After the convention, polls showed Humphrey losing the general election by 20 points.
8 hours ago · Humphrey won the presidential nomination at the August Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine was selected as his running mate. Outside the convention hall, thousands of young antiwar activists who had gathered to protest the Vietnam War clashed violently with police. The mayhem, which had been broadcast ...
8 hours ago · When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Eisenhower's managers accused Taft of "stealing" delegate votes in Southern states, claiming that Taft's allies had unfairly denied delegate spots to Eisenhower supporters and put Taft delegates in their place. Lodge and Dewey proposed to evict the pro-Taft delegates in these states and replace them with pro-Eisenhower delegates ...
1 hour ago · Former President Donald Trump is campaigning hard on the higher cost of living, having mentioned inflation 14 times in his speech last week at the Republican National Convention.
1 day ago · On December 9, 1871, a national convention was called for February 22, 1872, to nominate a presidential and vice presidential candidate. Chairman Simeon B. Chase, U.S. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Gerrit Smith, Mayor Neal Dow (a former mayor of Portland, Maine), and John Russell were proposed as presidential nominees while Henry Fish, James Black, John Blackman, Secretary Gideon T. Stewart ...
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8 hours ago · Bay of Pigs Invasion. Part of the Cold War and the. Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution. Counterattack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces near Playa Girón on 19 April 1961. Date. 17–20 April 1961. Location. Bay of Pigs, southwestern coast of Cuba. 22°03′42″N 81°01′55″W / .
