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The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Earlier that year incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, thus making the purpose of the convention to select a new presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. [1]
The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August 23 to August 29, 1968, and drew an estimated 7,000 to ...
Wasserman resigned as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee effective after the close of the convention. [12] 13 [2020] Originally scheduled for July 13–16, and originally planned for the Fiserv Forum, but postponed and moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In most Western European countries, the protest movement was dominated by students. The most prominent manifestation was the May 1968 protests in France, in which students linked up with wildcat strikes of up to ten million workers, and for a few days, the movement seemed capable of overthrowing the government.
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An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968. (The Viking Press, 1969). Johns, Andrew L. The Price of Loyalty: Hubert Humphrey's Vietnam Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). Nelson, Justin A. "Drafting Lyndon Johnson: The President's Secret Role in the 1968 Democratic Convention." Presidential Studies Quarterly 30.4 (2000): 688–713.
1968 – Glenville Shootout (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) 1968 - Bloody Friday, June 1968 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 1968 – Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day riot (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 1968 – Wooster Ave. riot of July 1968 (Akron, Ohio, United States) 1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention riot, August 1968 (Chicago, Illinois, United ...