[frank ballenger]

Good post.
Those of us who were young during the 1968 Dem. National convention remember the verbal and physical fighting leading up to and then after the protests led Lyndon B. Johnson to surprisingly declare on TV one night that he would not seek his own party’s nomination for another term.

Big fighting among Eugene McCarthy, Eldridge Cleaver, Robert F. Kennedy and Humbert Humphrey factions and the “the whole world is watching” riots, black protests and riots and frequent bloodshed in cities plus the death of RFK and Martin Luther King.

What a time.

[frank ballenger]

“Hubert”

[Colinsky]

1968 Dem. National convention remember the verbal and physical fighting leading up to and then after the protests led Lyndon B. Johnson to surprisingly declare on TV one night that he would not seek his own party’s nomination

Just to make it clear, LBJ dropped out of the race in March 1968, before the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy which also added to the protests and chaos by the time of the Dem convention in Chicago.