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4 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 ...
9 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 ...
9 hours ago · The upcoming Democratic National Convention is set to shake up the streets of Chicago as law enforcement authorities have announced a security plan that will close off large portions of the Near West Side. Both the areas surrounding the United Center and downtown near McCormick Place will be affected, leading to potential traffic disruptions ...
9 hours ago · Maurice Robert " Mike " Gravel ( / ɡrəˈvɛl / grə-VELL; May 13, 1930 – June 26, 2021) was an American politician and writer who represented Alaska in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party. He ran for president twice in 2008 and 2020 . Born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, by French ...
5 hours ago · DETROIT (AP) — The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city’s bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A dedication ceremony is scheduled Friday several miles (kilometers) north of downtown where the Algiers Motel once stood.
9 hours ago · Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as the 42nd governor of New York and was the Democratic Party 's presidential nominee in 1928 . The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War –veteran Italian-American father, Smith was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan ...
9 hours ago · According to an Associated Press survey, Harris already has secured the public support of a majority of delegates to the Democratic National Convention, which begins Aug. 19 in Chicago.
