I wasn’t in Chicago for the 1968 DNC disaster. Instead, I was glued to a radio, at a small conference in upstate New York.
Yet at moments it felt like I was there, right next to Grant Park, and that rocks or tear gas canisters could crash through a window at any second.
The large antiwar protests, met by police and national guard rampages, shaped the campaign that followed. The images and divisions did much to doom Hubert Humphrey’s effort to stop Richard Nixon from becoming president. Continue reading Will the DNC Repeat Chicago 1968? Or — Charlotte 2012??