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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 8-15-24: 1968 Democratic Convention – ‘Horrible things that still hurt to remember but are impossible to forget’

Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 8-15-24: 1968 Democratic Convention – ‘Horrible things that still hurt to remember but are impossible to forget’

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Just four days now until the Democrats begin their presidential nominating convention in Chicago. Many months after City Hall in Chicago has been agonizing over what may happen here next week, hoping it’s not what happened during the Democrat convention here in 1968, 56 years ago. Horrible things that still hurt to remember but are impossible to forget. I covered that convention. One reporter among more than 100 who were pushed and knocked around by violent protesters and bullied and tear gassed by equally violent Chicago police in Grant Park outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue where more than 100 convention delegates were staying and inside the amphitheater, about two miles away, where the convention was underway. Now today, Illinois Governor Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Johnson and the Democrat politicians in City Hall don’t want to be embarrassed again by protesters and police. So, they are spending a fortune for security in and around the Loop and the United Center and are denying parade permits to protesters who are planning to parade wherever and however they choose. Which is causing protesters and police to be on alert for any kind of violent behavior. Which clearly is leading up to… Uh, oh! Oh, no!





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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 8-15-24: 1968 Democratic Convention – ‘Horrible things that still hurt to remember but are impossible to forget’

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