Category Archives: 1968 DNC

The Best Dick Gregory Story

Posted on December 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The best Dick Gregory story is the time in 1961 when he got up in front of a largely white audience and delivered the joke about the white waitress at a restaurant in the South telling him that they don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, Dick Gregory, Vietnam War | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

It’s Not Just Trump — LBJ Took Classified Documents Too

Posted on August 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The FBI’s search on Monday of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home has rightfully been huge news. According to the Washington Post, the FBI took action because Trump had left the White House in January 2021 with government documents, and … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, Lyn. Johnson, Nixon, Vietnam War | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The Decline and Fall of the Democratic Party – Murray Kempton (Nov. 1968)

Posted on April 9, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… We had arrived at 18th and Michigan, where the [national] guard and the police waited to say we could not go farther. The delegates had all found us and efficiently lined up behind Rev. Richard Neuhaus and me, since, … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, Black Power, Dick Gregory, Hippie, Jerry Rubin, Lyn. Johnson, Religion, Tet 1968, Vietnam War | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nathan Gelgud – Unconventional, Part 1: Ed Sanders and the Liberal Puritan

Posted on November 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In anticipation of the Republican and Democratic national conventions later this summer, Nathan Gelgud, one of the Daily’s new correspondents, will be posting a regular weekly comic about the writers, artists, and demonstrators who attended the contested 1968 DNC.  …” The Paris … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, Allen Ginsberg, Books, Burroughs, Chicago Eight, Dick Gregory, Ed Sanders, Hippie, Poetry, The Fugs, Vietnam War | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

WBCN and The American Revolution

Posted on November 11, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It’s been a decade since WBCN rode Boston’s airwaves. In mass media terms, that’s an eternity. Today, if you tune to its old spot on the FM dial, you’ll hear a ‘hot contemporary adult’ format, Mix 104.1, a world away … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Music, Noam Chomsky, Phil Ochs, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Vietnam War | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nixon’s Vietnam Treachery

Posted on May 26, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

United States President Richard M. Nixon with President Thieu in Saigon on his first visit to South Vietnam, August 1969. “Richard M. Nixon always denied it: to David Frost, to historians and to Lyndon B. Johnson, who had the strongest … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, CIA, Henry Kissinger, Lyn. Johnson, Nixon, Saigon, Vietnam War | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

Posted on March 12, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The U.S. vs. John Lennon is a 2006 documentary film about English musician John Lennon‘s transformation from a member of the Beatles to a rallying anti-war activist striving for world peace during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, CIA, Cronkite, Documentary, LSD, Marijuana, Movie, Nixon, Noam Chomsky, The Beatles, Vietnam War | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Seattle Liberation Front

Posted on February 3, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Seattle Seven and two of their attorneys in summer 1970, photographer unknown “The Seattle Liberation Front, or SLF, was a radical anti-Vietnam War movement, based in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. The group, founded by the University of … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, Chicago Eight, Jerry Rubin, Newspaper, SDS, Vietnam War, Weather Underground | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1968: Art and Politics in Chicago

Posted on January 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In the weeks leading up to the convention, the city prepared for battle, even surrounding the site of the convention, the International Amphitheater, with barbed wire. It appeared Daley intended to make good on his promise: ‘[a]s long as I … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC, Books, Happenings, Hippie, SDS | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Arthur Miller on the Surreal, Ideological Violence Underlying the 1968 Democratic Convention

Posted on January 10, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“At the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, police riots erupted across the city in response to anti-war demonstrators. In this piece, Arthur Miller reflects on the aftermath of the riots and describes a candlelight walk and vigil that he took … Continue reading →

Posted in 1968 DNC | Tagged | Leave a comment