At least in ‘68 they waited for the Convention.
They burned down many cities in April and June after MLK and RFK were shot. The convention was the one they wrote songs about.
At this rate, the Demonrat Convention is going to be a mash up of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Spirit Cooking. Social Distancing will be gone, but Masked Faces will be everywhere confronting each other. The “fakest” New Normal Reality TV ever.
Good old days. My youth.
One funny moment. Hubert Humphrey in his convention hotel suite heard all the shouting and sirens on the street below. He decided out of curiosity to open the window and lean out to look down. Just then a wind gust carried a cloud of police tear gas upward into his face and he went into a choking fit.