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The Whole World Was Watching

40 years ago this week, Chicago police battled protesters at the DNC. Two ’60s radicals remember the madness, and look to Denver for change

By Laura S. Washington

In August 1968, the most wrongheaded war in American history was being executed badly and brutally in distant Southeast Asia. Yet 40 years ago this week, when the Democratic Party gathered in Chicago to nominate its standard-bearer, the world was riveted by the blood on avenues, sidewalks and parks much closer to home. The ‘68 Democratic National Convention debacle remains a… return to article

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