There’s a riot going on!
Evanston RoundTable, August 14, 2024 Author’s note: This recollection of the 1968 Democratic National Convention was written some years after the events depicted took place, so there may be a few memory lapses and inaccuracies. But my part witnessing the historical vignettes is as vivid to me today as it was at the time, 56 […]
Remembering the ’68 Democratic Convention
Evanston RoundTable, Aug. 23, 2018 Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Democratic Convention, held in Chicago at the International Amphitheatre. I remember it well: I was there. Reports had been circulating for weeks beforehand about planned demonstrations by anti-Vietnam War activists. The more radical fringe elements, led by master provocateurs Abbie Hoffman […]