Before there was Jan. 6, 2021, there was Aug. 28, 1968, in Chicago. Both are dates that will forever be markers of controversy.
Delegates on the Democratic National Convention floor chant"Stop the war" after a speech by Pierre Salinger, President John F. Kennedy's press secretary, on Aug. 28, 1968. Salinger urged adoption of the dove plank on the Vietnam War.
For before there was Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, there was Aug. 28, 1968, in Chicago. Both are dates and events that will forever be markers of infamy, controversy and, ultimately, conversations on the contours of democracy and freedoms.Both occurred amid a traditional democratic process: one involving the counting of electoral votes and the other involving the nomination of a presidential candidate.
The National Guard confront anti-war protesters in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention in August 1968. The city, in turn, refused to approve permits for these groups to hold their planned protest in the parks and prepared to protect property, preserve order and confront the demonstrators. Yet, according to James Rochford, then the deputy police superintendent, law enforcement remained uneasy over the prospect of what havoc the demonstrators might wreak.
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