[Allegra]

Thanks. I was a wee child when that happened and wanted to look for any comparable timing.

It sounds like Hubert Humphrey went through the proper primary process, then.

[MNJohnnie]

The Democrats were headed towards a brokered convention in 1968 when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Humphrey was the last man standing despite some last minute attempts to hijack it by George McGovern. The other candidate Eugene McCarthy had very little support.

Interesting bit of trivia. McCarthy and Humphrey were both from MN