From the Archives: Look Back at The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

[@larryguterriz1343]

"How hard it is to face the truth, when we all know the problems facing our nation". Still resonates today as it did over half a century ago.

[@AnthonyJPiccione]

Now in 2024, let’s see how similar the reboot is to the original…

[@Xsqber1234]

I wouldn’t be surprised if it is so, saying that as a dem

[@wrongturnVfor]

Honestly, Pigasus looks like a great canddiate rt now. Loooking back, he was probably better than all the people running in the election back then, lol

[@9999bigb]

Oh how relevant this comment is now.

[@Xsqber1234]

@@9999bigb Yes. We have the Israel Hamas war, progressives and centrists and blue dogs, pro Kamala and anti Kamala, the border crisis.

[@shainebingham9310]

Complete Reboot. It's going to get really bad in Chicago again

[@jamesstewart8377]

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes.

[@steveshampine9047]

History Recalls How Great The Fall Can Be Supertramp, 1977

[@LuciousAjyahyah]

Ikr

[@brianarbenz1329]

I will never, EVER forget the sight of that balloon hitting Mayor Daley in the head as he rose to shout back at Abraham Ribicoff. What a perfectly timed of moment of deliberate and random comical confrontation.

[@ladedalounge]

and to think it is here in 2024.....still in Chicago and I will be going, I never voted and never will. I promised if a Kennedy was running I would go...so I will be there.

[@gerryzink3176]

​@@ladedaloungewell Kennedy won't be there

[@hughdismuke4703]

@@ladedalounge what a silly reason not to vote.

[@hughdismuke4703]

Yeah I caught that also. LOL!

[@chrishelbling3879]

Didn't Daley shout at Ribicoff, Shut up you f-in Jew?

[@richmotroni]

There was the great lead sentence from the AP: "Hubert Humphrey, a man of peace accepted the Democratic Normination under armed guard."

[@hughdismuke4703]

Yeah, not a good look. But what's even more bizarre today is we have a guy who has been indicted 91 time, with at least four trials coming so far, and STILL STILL STILL running around free campaigning for the White House again! He makes the 68 riots look like peanuts.

[@paulgentile1024]

and Biden ?...😂🤣

[@wrongturnVfor]

HAHAH! Man of peace? Freaking coward changed his whole platform because Johson wagged his Johnson a bit too hard at him for not following party line

[@jimmymelendez1836]

​@@paulgentile1024Uhh...and?🙄

[@jimmymelendez1836]

​@@wrongturnVforWhat the ever lovin' frack are you talking about?

[@LS-ki9ft]

1968 or 2024. We will have to see if past is prologue.

[@hughdismuke4703]

We're not protesting a war today.

[@larryguterriz1343]

@@hughdismuke4703 not a war but perhaps a run down political system, regardless whic party is at the helm

[@michaellocke48]

Not another 15 rounds of selection of new Speaker 😂

[@rafstrayhorn5772]

The students at Columbia are

[@wrongturnVfor]

​@@hughdismuke4703 Lol did you miss the pro hamas protests?

[@mattrooney4904]

Aah the good old days. ‘68 was a hell of a year.

[@DJT-MAGA]

Can't wait for the sequel in just a couple of weeks.

[@jamesbarton6959]

I see the repeat coming in afew weeks

[@cspan1993]

Inshallah🙏

[@vivianwada6292]

You wish dim witt...😅😅😅😅

[@_Elizabeth_theMaid]

All these protesters are voting democrat now. It’s really crazy.

[@toddwilliams5782]

troll

[@mikeryan2070]

The word watches and forgets

[@hughdismuke4703]

It's why we have these videos as record now. We can never forget the struggle that goes on to this day.

[@jste4310]

At 2:42, there is a US-54 shield. US-54 is a highway that, at one time, ran from Downtown Chicago to the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas. Nowadays, US-54 runs from El Paso to Griggsville, Il.

[@leppak42088]

living history. u ever feel like 1968 is the present and somehow we are shadows living in the imagined future?

[@malcolmcurran6248]

Yes... often as a weird feeling of temporal displacement an uncanny sensation... only wish it was in fact 1968...for all the problems then, and there were many, at least the biosphere and climate had not been completely trashed beyond repair as it is now.

[@PutDownTheBunny]

1968 - Anti-War rioters 2024 - From The River To The Sea, violent riots you will see.

[@sharondessisso8400]

Exactly.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

Vietnam was about Colonial Exploitation, Victoria Nuland set Her Sights Higher. Once again some Investors desire someone else' Sheit? I always assumed the Johnson Administration ran out of money. This group appears to have some serious financial issues. There are several other similarities that make you say, "Is there no originality left?"

[@Mark-yy2py]

Do not mess with Richard Daley’s Chicago. He had such a machine.

[@Mark-ht3sd]

Yes a corrupt one.

[@Mark-yy2py]

@@Mark-ht3sd indeed, but still effective.

[@hughdismuke4703]

@@Mark-yy2py You are a bit of a conundrum. Daley's police force was a brutal bunch of racist and anti progressives. I would not call that a success.

[@redwemette5942]

@@Mark-yy2py It worked just fine for me

[@michaelleroy9281]

Until December 1976

[@silvereagle2061]

At least we should have expected some touching words about RFK who was killed before making it to this convention. Very sad indeed.

[@Jumpjoe4587]

Back then delegates had power and a voice now fall in line you have no voice or choice.

[@briannat1086]

"What can be, unburdened by what has been" hahaha

[@jonathanmorris8362]

*Here.We.Go*

[@345mrse]

Never book a Democratic convention in Chicago. See what’s unfolding? Two times now!

[@generalfilms9947]

Robert F Kennedy should have been there but unfortunately get didn't make it 💔😣

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

@generalfilms9947 RFK didnt make it out of Los Angeles. Fortunatly his wife, CHICAGO born ETHEL, has carried RFK`s legacy.

[@hughdismuke4703]

It's possible the war may have ended much sooner if he had lived. What happened in the 1960's was sort of a double edged sword though. JFK, King and Bobbi's assassinations, the prolonged war which caused college and young peoples protests, just coming off laws passed during the civil rights movement, this gave rise to all marginalized groups to push to make real change which also included women. Government was put under tremendous pressure to help make those changes also. Sacrifice is always made when great change comes. In my mind, it was all worth it and I give thanks to those who sacrificed themselves.

[@mojo-eq4ln]

He would’ve still lost to Humphrey

[@hughdismuke4703]

@@mojo-eq4ln Humphrey lost to him by a good margin. Humphrey's complaint was 'the Kennedy's were too good looking'. Too good looking? Really?

[@ditto1958]

@@hughdismuke4703In 1968 candidates for president were still actually chosen at the conventions. The primaries were important, but were still mostly guidelines. So, who knows, but Humphrey could still very likely have gotten the nod even if RFK had lived.

[@jackdemus7890]

When will we see new episodes of Big Chicago Stories? I love the series.

[@ih8utbe]

I was born 2 weeks later in September 68. This is intriguing to watch.

[@LastCommodore]

The whole world will be watching again .. next month, Aug 2024 .. and I'll be there.

[@JohnLancaster-b5x]

This is going to happen at the next democratic convention.

[@jste4310]

It would be interesting. Nothing much happened at the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago, if I remember correctly.

[@tomxconn]

1996 didn’t feel so divisive. Something’s gonna happen this year. If not Chicago, then Milwaukee

[@alaricabercrombie2692]

@@tomxconn Good point 👏

[@The-rp6do]

You’re probably right

[@briandelaney9710]

No. Kamala coronation

[@brianarbenz1329]

Many of those scenes were from the 1972 and 1976 conventions.

[@hughdismuke4703]

I have no idea why they would add the 1972 convention held in Miami Beach, FL. and the 1976 convention held in NYC's Madison Square Garden onto this clip. This is in reference to what's going on inside of the convention itself. You can clearly see the podium sign with the years on it. Good catch!

[@SM6796-n9d]

Thank you for this ✌️ I'm of the thought this video may get a massive increase in views after the DNC in Chicago in the next two weeks.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

All the similarities do inspire thoughts of Deja Vu all over again?

[@daviddavenport1485]

History repeats itself

[@williamhosp701]

I was there for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and it took me until October to support Humphrey. Thankfully 2024 is so different.

[@arnoldjr200040]

😢it’s 2024 nothing has changed

[@julianG1212]

That’s what you get for voting for a rotting corpse. At least Johnson was coherent.

[@jrzygurl]

You're joking ,right?,,,,

[@raulduke6105]

I was in Chicago at my grandparents clueless about what was going on until the clouds of tear-gas came rolling thru the neighborhood

[@danielhutchinson6604]

A Woman who was working in a Hospital in Chicago, went on to be a Montana State Senator, and very effective too.

[@twofiveb]

If you want to delve deeper into this part of history I recommend reading “Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago” by Mike Royko. It was so controversial that Daley’s people tried to get every copy out of the stores so no one could read it. Classic. I worked at that Hilton in the 90’s and remember the pretty much uneventful DNC convention in ‘96. I don’t think this year’s convention will be as crazy as the ‘68 convention but I doubt it will be as smooth as the’96 convention.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

Tuli Kupferberg and Abbie Hoffman will not be there this time. I do not see as much motivation to attend as I did in 1968. But there are some Kids who display enthusiasm. It may be colorful? It will be well Covered..... The Phone was attached to the Wall in 1968......

[@cygil1]

Today's Abbie Hoffmans are shilling for Kamala on twitter. Sorry, X. Not Malcom either.

[@lamardon9723]

Nothing changes if nothing is changed. We have learned nothing.

[@billolsen4360]

The 1968 Democratic Convention handed the Richard Nixon his triumph

[@jamesbarton6959]

it will happen with Trump.

[@gsxr2fst498]

These are not democrats today. They robbed us of our primary. We didn’t get to choose our candidate. We voted. Kamala off the stage in the 2020 primary. She was the 1st off and they make us take her. I’m done. I’ve lost hope

[@ditto1958]

@@billolsen4360 No, Nixon ran a strong race, and offered a legitimate alternative to the dems who had just spent 8 years tearing America apart. The dems ran Johnson’s VP who promised more of the same disastrous policies that Kennedy and Johnson had presided over.

[@larryguterriz1343]

Hard to believe this was happening right in the heart of America.

[@JohnLancaster-b5x]

Wait until this summer.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

Nazi Storm Troopers in the streets, is not ordinary Senator Speech. That was pretty dramatic..... It did arouse a load of divisive speech....

[@ditto1958]

I was only in 4th grade back then, but even at age 10 I was captivated by the whole process. A few things struck me then that I find fascinating even today. The first was that the dems, similarly to today, seemed oblivious to how badly they’d screwed things up under JFK and then LBJ. Second, they had huge numbers of baby boomer kids who were young and idealistic and who knew little about the sordid business of politics. Last, but not least, the 68 conventions were live and I color and it was for many people the first time they saw with their own eyes how political parties operated. I remember I was struck by how ugly the processes tended to be. The networks advertised “gavel to gavel coverage” and the parties in those days ran their conventions in plain view of the tv cameras. Floor fights, demonstrations, platform fights, Mayor Daley… you couldn’t make better tv if you made it up!

[@Limitedfreedomofspeech]

Thank you for the memorial comment. Love to hear people’s perspective of the past.

[@shanemckenzie8681]

@@Limitedfreedomofspeechwell written.😊

[@MaestroDawg65]

And not one mention of Dan Rather getting punched.

[@ladedalounge]

lol Chicago here and the convention will be here in 2024 lolol

[@hughdismuke4703]

Back then there was a war we were trying to end. That's why things got out of hand when the police attacked.

[@shainebingham9310]

@@hughdismuke4703 Things about to get out of hand again........

[@christinec.6685]

Deja vu all over again!

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Well, it's 2024, not 1968.

[@hughdismuke4703]

@@jimmymelendez1836 That's true. It is 56 years later. But this time the old ways are trying to come back vs. what the new ways fought for 56 years ago. Funny how that happens huh?

[@Jumpjoe4587]

History will repeat itself. I was ten but i remember it.

[@jamesbarton6959]

me too.

[@tedlahm5740]

“I will eat this Affirmative Action legislation on the floor of the U.S. Senate if it turns into a quota system.”

[@scottchambers7087]

I've seen it all. I would not have cared about that Tupac or Walt. However, I put the spirit of love above. Dope describes my rhymes, making all you emcees cold drop like dimes. You know MCSC is back again, and battling me on the microphone is like committing a sin. Much love to Saturn. Scott the Chicago Seer MCSC the Chicago Seer

[@moboutmen]

One short year after The Summer of Love.

[@nja3224]

“Surely we have now learned the lesson that violence breeds counter violence and it can never be condoned whatever the source.” Have we learned that? Another famous quote is “Violence begets violence.” Violence is rampant all over the world today. I remember as a kid (naively maybe) how peaceful the world was for so many people living with and around each other. Sure, there hot spots taking place, but for the most part life seemed peaceful. Of course neither cable nor the internet was around, I didn’t have immediate access to national or world events, but it was a nice feeling that is long gone, never to be felt again. Sad.

[@christopherwyer7642]

Sealed the Democrats fate in 1968

[@wbm3787]

Gimme that old time Law & Order!

[@suburban_guy]

Interesting

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

1968 or 2024?

[@Jadeserphant]

This starts out in 1968 and then jumps to Jimmy Carter. WTH?

[@johngray0]

make night sticks great again

[@ronflatter1235]

5:03 Somehow we get Larry O'Brien calling the convention to order four years later.

[@PhoenixDemocrat]

Many Democrats left the party after Humphrey’s nomination. He didn’t win a single primary. All the LBJ and RFK delegates voted for him.

[@jpx08]

2024 DNC = DNC 1968 v 2.0

[@michaelleroy9281]

So far it isn't on August 20, 2024 2 days in no riots on the streets on national TV no reporters getting punched on the convention floor and no national guard has been called in by the mayor there is no 2.0

[@davidmullet1030]

I think I remember the protesters put vasoline jelly on their hands and clothes so the police couldn’t grab and hold them.

[@woxyroxme]

If you get a chance to see a movie called Medium Cool, do it

[@cynthiafrank5638]

That film really captures the time. I saw it in the theatre. For some reason it was rated X.

[@MatthewWilson-vl7qc]

Protesters Wanted Blood ! And ,they got it : Theyre Own !

[@lmlm_]

Get ready for a repeat in 9 days… 😂

[@iadorenewyork1]

"The whole world is watching". I happened to chant that during the 1984 Demo Convention. I happened to be attacked by a big, beefy policeman -- my friend, too. Quite the week. (I was a little kid in 1968, so I couldn't attend or protest.)

[@thelookingglass308]

Who's here after Biden dropped out and endorsed Kamala? Trying to see how much popcorn to buy for the 2024 DNC.

[@TraciBradley-i8k]

The cops should have let them rage since they got blamed for everything

[@ernieneverscardinals461]

The whole worlds watching joe and they are all laughing !!

[@nathantucker8489]

It even had a biopic: The Trial of the Chicago 7

[@michaeldavid4572]

I was 7 years old I remember running around the playground at school Yelling vote for Humphrey

[@steveshampine9047]

Sixty years later and still dysfunctional.

[@nancyrutledge-u1k]

Are we going to see history repeat itself?

[@RaulMacias-i9x]

Humphrey was a coward who wouldn't jump into the Democratic Presidential Primaries with Senator Eugene McCarthy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

[@redwemette5942]

It was Hot that day and night, I just came home from Viet Nam, when I smelled the tear gas I ran for cover. I was running on the backs of people on the ground and street. I wasn't going to get my head kicked in for any politician. I thought I was crazy the people there never knew what they were getting into. 🙄

[@ricardojordanjordan2216]

Always liked Humphrey

[@Mark-ht3sd]

He was good loser.

[@MrJacMac1968]

He looked like Bob Hope

[@johnc4642]

I wonder how many protesters that was detained made it to the police stations or the morgue.

[@9999bigb]

History repeats itself sometimes, doesnt it?

[@deborahj7603]

Was there even a delegation vote for Kamala? I saw the RNC do this...what a world we live in...

[@Jumpjoe4587]

Mr Dailey was not pleased with George McGovern i remeber writing HHH 68 on my school notebook

[@vasilikonstan]

....I hope to God the DNC Convention is peaceful this summer

[@Agustinoism]

Will it happen again

[@lostviking540]

The 🎉good ol days

[@thenosepicker]

Man Great Grandaddy tore it up. Dirty old men. HHH - Time To Play The Game! 6:24 old boy has one hell of a stache. Can you find one that beats it? Tag the time stamp in the comments.

[@itsame8057]

Who here in 2024 ready for Remake?

[@kinggoldark3853]

The plot ghosts are working hard to keep time flowing as it should. The incumbent president decides not to run, Robert F. Kennedy is in the race, the Democratic nomination is being handed to the sitting vice president who competed in no primaries, and the Democratic Party is plagued by an activist faction on its left that thinks we're on the wrong side of a foreign war.

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Seriously?😒🙄🤦

[@spiritsealed]

Damn cops kick your ass back in the day

[@Limitedfreedomofspeech]

That’s why the older generations have what is called RESPECT

[@shanemckenzie8681]

Lol😅

[@nancyryan7971]

It's all Corrupt..then and now.

[@MAC-tv6zq]

May have dodged the draft but not the wood shampoo.

[@ui888iu]

And just outside.....Abbie Hoffman!

[@marks16-ou7qk]

History repeats

[@ChrisSmith-lo2kp]

sad that McGovern's WW2 record of flying multiple bombing missions over Nazi Germany was seen then as too liberal to be president during wartime

[@_Elizabeth_theMaid]

And now they all vote democrat 😂 you can’t make this up 🤣

[@ericjohn5678]

what is this

[@georgemichael9106]

Those were the grandparents of the freaks we have today.

[@Benmeglei1]

Wow, they are so diverse. 😂

[@mariacardenas4665]

56 years ago

[@hughdismuke4703]

I grew up in Chicago and as a kid heard of what was going on in certain areas of the city. There was another big riot down Clark Street, to North Avenue and finally spilled over onto Dearborn where rioters clashed with police at Division and Dearborn. Famous footage of that conflict also. Several big fights between police and protesters happened in the downtown areas back then over inequality, abuse, civil rights, change and particularly the Vietnam war. I'm surprised no ones made a movie about all of this! The closest thing I seen so far was The Trial of the Chicago 7. This whole thing started with the Vietnam war, JFK's assassination, King's speech at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for civil rights which finally took place place, the counter culture Hippie movement along with the beat movements who took pop culture to a whole new level, King's assassination, Bobby's assassination and the peace concerts, the most famous being Woodstock in NY. These movements gave rise to many changes, thru government law makers, for equal rights as in voting rights, desegregation which opened the doors for everyone. We saw great change with the additions of medicare, the integration of public schools and even abortion rights. It all made a difference and was worth the sacrifices that were made so we could all have the rights we have today, which are slipping away again if we don't fight to save them. Growing up I met a few of these people who got their heads busted by these brutal cops. I even met one of the guys years later who filmed many of these events. This was happening all over the country as the call to end the war was growing, whether it was Berkeley in California, all the way to Columbia University in NYC. It was the first time America had seen real change after several hundred years where racism and misogyny ruled with abuse. The marginalized finally fought back. Today we are all up against the same thing with this tRumpism threatening our very freedoms. Vote blue because your life depends on it.

[@zippymufo9765]

You're so ignorant of history that it's laughable 😂 The civil rights movement, integration, and all of that was already in progress in 1968. And Medicare was passed years before this.

[@daspoohmunich7235]

hey man you better get the hell outta chicago seek help for your TDS the first step to salvation is to admit you have several deep rooted problems comrade 👍🏿🏓

[@daspoohmunich7235]

​@zippymufo9765 the ignorance is strong in that one haha lol & green new deal & such haha lol TRUMP 2024 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@spudskie3907]

Liberalism is a mental disorder. Democrats can only win by cheating. Daley in 1960 helped JFK. 2020 had Biden installed. Biden’s poll numbers are dismal and he knows it. The only way Biden wins again is massive voter fraud on a scale unprecedented.

[@jimmymelendez1836]

​@daspoohmunich7235 The ignorance is coming from you. Kamala 2024! Trump For Prison 2024!

[@Limitedfreedomofspeech]

The boys in blue taking out the trash

[@jimwerther]

Parts of this video are very confusing

[@skeletonrebellion]

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." ~ Abbie Hoffman

[@Jumpjoe4587]

RFK was killed and HHH was anointed by Mayor Daily look at today he was fit and competent now he is old and senile and we will anoint a new democrat.

[@IAMKEY2HARMONY]

Is the PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING..

[@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp]

Not about family.

[@davidevans3227]

am in the middle of a podcast about biden and trump.. and one of the presenters said have a look at this!! indeed...

[@jaydshawn01]

It is now Aug, 15, 2024 ... Come Monday of next week of Aug, 19, 2024 I pray to The Most High my melanted, African Afro people stand up and take a stand against what has been going on these last 4yrs. This was not that long ago. It should not still be division, war and hate going on in this country and this country/ our government should not be funding it nor endorsing it, but sadly they are and we are still seeing it 'til this day. I'm 23yrs of age born and raised in Montgomery, AL now a resident in Dallas/ Frisco, Texas. The way this country is falling apart and how much the division has come, it is insane and should not be continuing on the way it is. My people in Chicago, GET UP, STAND UP... STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHT!!!! GET UP,. STAND UP, DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT!!!! You can kill the messenger, but you can't kill the message!!!!!

[@sharondessisso8400]

Seriously, this was 1972

[@thewkovacs316]

genius kids....made sure to help nixon get elected

[@GeneralYee123]

2024. We're are so back 😂

[@josephgnatek5984]

the good old days of clout

[@MrJ-dc3yz]

It's DNC time again how's Johnson going to handle it?

[@hueylongadmirer1829]

You mean Brandon?

[@MrJ-dc3yz]

@@hueylongadmirer1829 I said Johnson who cares about sleepy Joe. Johnson got big event coming to town, by summer they will be lots of pissed off people in town.

[@RockstarRomania]

​@@MrJ-dc3yzthe problem is that Dork Brandon will get all of the pro Palestine types at him.

[@johnmd4331]

It is happening again, history repeated!!