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Aug 28, 2018 · Fifty years ago today, one of the fiercest battles of the 1960s took place not in the jungles of Vietnam, but on the streets of Chicago. On Day 3 of the 1968 Democratic National Convention,...
Roz Payne took the more than 500 photos during the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. The protests degenerated into a police riot when Democratic mayor and party stalwart, Richard Daley, ordered an estimated 23,000 riot-clad police officers to attack roughly 10,000 demonstrators in and near Grant Park.
The 1960 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, from July 25 to July 28, 1960, at the International Amphitheatre. It was the 14th and most recent time overall that Chicago hosted the Republican National Convention, more times than any other city.
The Democratic National Convention that August was a nominating convention for an extraordinary year, in which incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson decided not to run again and candidate...
Aug 23, 2018 · They’d nominate a pig for president, dance through the streets of Chicago and grab media attention from the meaningless spectacle inside the convention center walls.
- Dave Roos
Subcategories. This category has the following 29 subcategories, out of 29 total. 1860 Republican National Convention (1 C, 11 F). 1864 Democratic National Convention (5 F)
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Mar 31, 2022 · Updated Mar 30, 2022, 6:48pm PDT. From smoke-filled rooms to rickety Wigwam to a ‘police riot,’ Chicago’s political convention history is a rich one. Pocket. Reddit. Flipboard. A drawing of “the Wigwam,” the nickname for the building at Lake and Wacker in which Abraham Lincoln was nominated in 1860. Sun-Time archives.
