The chaos of the 1968 DNC: Retired CBS Chicago reporter John Drummond remembers
CHICAGO -- Fifty-six years ago, the events of one week in August stained Chicago's image around the world—anti-Vietnam War protests, and the police response to them, during the Democratic National Convention.John 'Bulldog' Drummond was there for it all.
'So we headed—myself and Mr. Mooney, the program director—we ducked down an alley and hid behind a garbage can. So we missed the sweep.'Inside the convention hall at the International Amphitheatre, formerly at 4220 S. Halsted St., Democrats and the media decried how Mayor Daley Sr. and the city handled the protests. In a speech calling for the nomination of U.S. Sen. George McGovern for the top of the ticket, U.S. Sen.
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