Filmmaker Haskell Wexler thus described Medium Cool, his violent feature set during Chicago’s riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention. His movie opened (sort of) exactly 55 years ago this week.

Daley shake hands as they leave the CBS News trailer at the International Amphitheatre during the Democratic National Convention in August 1968 following the Mike Wallace incident. Provided Share ...

The Nation warned readers early on that the 1968 convention would be debacle. With the Democratic National Convention wrapping up in Chicago, many have pointed to parallels with the party’s ...

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including by hosting the 1996 Democratic National Convention that largely went off without a hitch. “If the 1968 convention went down in history as the example of police brutality, then the 2024 ...

Now that this past week’s jubilant 2024 Democratic National Convention has ended, it’s a sign of success that the convention — not Chicago itself, as in 1968 — was the story that dominated ...

Jon Grinspan is curator of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the author of “Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the ...

The Nation warned readers early on that the 1968 convention would be a debacle. Ad Policy Protesters clash with the National Guard outside the Democratic National Convention on August 28 ...

In a city that is remembered for the 1968 riots, it was no surprise that security was a priority at the recent Democratic ...

On the second day of the 1924 Democratic National Convention, at Madison Square Garden, for example, partisan divide reached ...

The protests surrounding the Democratic National Convention, once a source of alarm ... this summer are as combustible as those in 1968, when police clashed with thousands of peace activists ...

At least, that’s how attendees at the 2024 Independent National Convention felt. Bolstered by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s now-paused independent presidential run and convinced of high dissatisfaction with ...