Right now, presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country, begging primary voters for their support. So it's easy to forget that not too long ago, these voters had no say in who their party ...
It is also the 50th anniversary of the Chicago convention — the Democrats’ convention in Chicago in 1968. That was a famously tumultuous affair. And there is a new musical called ...
In August 1968, thousands of anti-war protesters gathered near the Democratic National Convention and surged toward lines of helmeted police bearing clubs and tear gas. The protestors called them ...
Kennedy was assassinated, Vice President Hubert Humphrey secured the 1968 Democratic nomination ... for then-groundbreaking ...
Two months later, the Democratic National Convention was punctuated by violent ... Throughout much of the early campaign in 1968, Wallace’s wife and governor of Alabama, Lurleen Wallace, was ...
The Democratic National Committee announced that the ... that 2024 could be a repeat not of 1996, but the infamous 1968 Chicago convention, which, under similar political tensions, "was a ...