Chaos at the Convention: The 1968 DNC
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention, coming amid a year of political strife, faced controversy both inside and outside the international amphitheater in Chicago. The resulting chaotic convention would forever change the way the United States chooses party presidential nominees.
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Lance, I have enjoyed lots of your videos. It's a shame the MAGAbots have infested the comments. Degrades your efforts, sadly.
@@gus473 gus, you know nothing about history. the first assassination attempt in 43 years just happened so you aren't talking to "MAGAbots" you are talking to regular people who are here for that moment in time. additionally, by calling them that its very clear where your own politics lie, in the same realm as assassination attempters
@TheHistoryGuyChannel - Thank you for a superb historical presentation, sir.
One thing about THG.
He’ll never run out of material!
One of the best channels on the tube.
Always relevant.
When I took my family to Chicago on holiday back in 2008 I specifically chose to stay in the Hilton because of its role in the drama of that 1968 convention. They had erected a display commemorating the 40th anniversary of the events. Apparently, as the demonstrators were being chased & clubbed down Michigan Avenue by Chicago's police, the Hilton's manager thought it would be wise if the doors to the lobby were locked. But no keys could be found - it turned out the doors hadn't been locked once since the hotel's opening in 1927!
Abbie Hoffman was asking People to come to Chicago.
What would Mayor Darly say?
I'll bet they've found the keys now, based on the insane amount of crime that goes on in Chicago.
@@peterrichards931 It depends on where the hotel is. A lot of crime does happen in Chicago, but a LOT of it happens in a few specific areas.
Al Cpone's gangs were .more civilised than Eugene McCarthy's, that's why.
@@drdiabeetus4419 Street access to a major hotel in a major city downtown must remain open at all times.
I'm so glad THG remains a non-political channel, even when discussing historical politics.
Same. Even politics can be discussed without editorializing.
Too bad people in the comments don’t feel the same.
Mr. Geiger treads the fine line between family show and pablum in this one.
THG fails to mention that what has commonly become known as the; Police Riot At The Convention: The 1968 DNC.
This brought on in no small part by a forced draft of eighteen year olds who would not be allowed to vote until twenty-one and a out of control police department.
With the assassination of peace advocate RFK before the convention and the last minute nomination of a genuinely characterless yes-man like Hubert Horatio Humphrey. This paved the way too one of the darkest chapters in American history, which seems to be coming full circle.
He's great at choosing topical stories without being polarizing. Always learn something & come away more relaxed
History should be more "story" and less "his-story". That is nearly impossible when you try to add context to it because you seemingly add a preference in the perception of the already politicized mind.
I was 11 when this happened and remember sitting with my dad on the couch watching the live coverage. The riot was something else. Really shocked our senses at the time.
I was 12 and remember that the convention was the only thing on tv.
I was also 11 and I was very hopeful that Democrats would win. I expected Humphrey to win, and it was later suggested that had the campaign continued another week, Humphrey would have won. He was closing the gap as his numbers continued to improve.
I was very much interested in learning more about this given what’s going on today, so thank you History Guy for reading my mind
Me, too.
"The whole world's watching."
The rock group Chicago, on their first album, had a song about that...
@@AlanToon-fy4hg Prologue, August 29, 1968
@@AlanToon-fy4hg
It would seem that is the point of reference 😂
I was five years old when the Chicago convention took place. I had to watch The Smothers Brothers show afterwards to make any sense of it all.
“May you live in interesting times.” We seem to.
My grandpa was staying with family friends in Chicago in 1968 so he could go to school there and get his certification for his future job. He said on the day when all that stuff happened at the DNC convention he was looking for a bar to go to but found out that many were closing their doors early. One was even boarding up the windows for fear of looting which annoyed him. To his luck before the bar owners kicked him out he was talking to a guy who recently got discharged from the army and invited my grandpa to a party with him in South Side Chicago
My grandparents, who lived in Chicago, came out to CA to stay with us for a while in 1968.
I was sort of expecting some kind of surprise about who the ex-GI was with the possibility that it was (insert famous name or tech pioneer) or something great happened at the party (future wife maybe), but sadly the story just ended.
@biffmalarkey well there is a funny detail I left out. My family is Mexican American and the ex- GI guy was a black dude. My grandpa saw him wearing his army fatigues and asked if he was in the army. The guy apparently said "Oh yeah I used to be but NOW I'm in the people's army! They're coming for the blacks and then they'll come for the Chicanos. So we gotta stick together" 😅. And then he invited my grandpa to the party.
@@Spongebrain97 Thanks for the added tidbit.
@@Spongebrain97 Sounds a lot like he might have been a member of the Black Panthers? That's very similar to what i've heard of a lot of their rhetoric. Chicago was also a big center for them.
"Do I have to repeat myself?"
-History
Some people just don't learn the first time around.
History does not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes a lot!
If it did not dent Flakey Floonts noggin
on the first attempt,
well, just hit again?
@@danielhutchinson6604 Be careful, your comment can land you in trouble. As it should!
@@TreeLBollingTreeMan Having an opinion is now against the Law?
In my then 7th grade history class we were all asked what our favorite TV program was. Mine was the 1968 Democratic Convention.
I remember Nixon saying. “We didn’t win. They lost.”
The perceptive if ultimately doctrinaire Joe McGinniss ("The Selling of the President 1968") brought forth a quip that's so apt one doesn't even want to know if it's apocryphal:
A couple days after Election Day, counting (pardon me, "counting") was still going on, and there was a serious jam: third-party candidate George Wallace (governor of Alabama), in what stands as the Electoral College's strongest independent victory, had taken 5 states with 45 Electoral votes, and on Wednesday and Thursday, pending the results of two or three states' counts ("counts") yet unfinished, Richard Nixon held 260-SOME Electoral votes and Hubert Humphrey somewhere under 200. The dynamic: the yet-final states were "small" ones with 3 or 4 or 5 Electors, AND ILLINOIS, WITH TWENTY-SIX. ILLINOIS held the balance: had Nixon taken the little states but not won Illinois he'd have finished JUST SHY, but EVERLASTINGLY SHORT of 270; way more than incidentally, Humphrey had fallen so short (his ultimate total was 191) he COULD NOT HAVE WON IN ANY EVENT; for the first time in more than a century the election WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES---
Late Thursday / early Friday, the numbers from CHICAGO came through. Always, for SOME reason, Chicago's have been the last results in Illinois. Chicago always goes Democrat, always always always. And it went for Humphrey in '68. But just a LEEEEETLE LESS HEAVIER than expected. "Downstate" Illinois always goes Republican; it's said that in 1960, THAT election teetering, Mayor Daley asked Joe Kennedy Sr., JFK's dad, how many Chicago votes were needed to tip Illinois, and thus the Presidency, to his son, and, voilá, Chicago belatedly delivered exactly that pile and a cushion: JFK in, Nixon, uh, not; flash ahead, now, to '68 and Joe McGinniss's spicy quote:
Early the Friday after voting, for the first time in decades, Illinois landed for a Republican. Its 26 Electors carried Nixon over 270 because Chicago, while going to Humphrey, went for him (said THE NUMBERS, ANYWAY) just that LEEEEETLE bit less than they, uh, might.
Joe McGinniss said that someone in a position to know was of the view that "even Richard Daley wouldn't steal the Presidency from the same man twice."
I think all must agree that's a pithy line. Make of its chaotic surroundings what you will.
Thank you, THG, for reminding us of another turbulent era in American history. We need to remember these things.
*Dan got punched in the stomach!...*
As a little boy, I remember sitting in front of a big, black 'n white Motorola TV set, watching Dan Rather report LIVE from the floor of the 1968 DNC convention. A group of big guys shoved their way past Dan, and the next thing I know, Dan Rather is doubled-over, because one of the big guys spontaneously punched Dan in the stomach. Walter Cronkite cut-in, saying...
"Dan, are you all right?"
...and...
"Looks like we got ourselves a bunch of... th-... th-... THUGS, Dan!"
This one TRULY worth remembering!
I remember the 68 convention well I was there as the Nettwerk news cameramen . It definitely was a wild mess. Thanks and great part to Mayer Richard Daley..
It's interesting that you don't know how to Spell...
Sen Abraham Ribicoff was a senator from Connecticut. Ted Kennedy and Edward Brooke were the senators from Massachusetts in 1968. Very good episode.
Wasn’t Ted’s brother Bobby, the guy who was running for president was shot, the Democratic senator from New York? Jacob Javits, the other senator from New York, was rather progressive in his day, but was Republican.
This is the second worst thing to ever happen at a DNC in Chicago after the entire crowd and all the politicians did the Macarena in 1996.
I'm not a Democrat, so thank God I missed that!
I'd have immediately become a Republican! 🤣
Kamala is trying to restore the “joy” back, so a Macarena dance is a welcome respite from the chaos and angry rhetoric in the current political climate.
third worst has to be the fight song in 2016
There are only a few channels I hit the like button on before the video even plays. Your's is one, and I never regret it! Thanks for all the great content you produce!
Thank you I was just thinking of this subject due to recent events. This is a fitting subject to present thank you History Guy this is why I am a subscriber keep up the great work.
I remember the 1968 DNC Convention, vividly. Third time that year the streets of Chicago were guarded by Illinois National Guard for days, a curfew was set, and Mayor Daley (Richard J not M) issued a "shoot to kill" order for CPD.
Very timely
Thanks History Guy. I was 5 when the convention happened. All my life I’ve heard about the 1968 convention, but never knew the details. This video gave me a lot of good information.
I will never forget that day my momma came into the Istanbul Air Station snack bar screaming "Johnson's resigning!"
Wrong. Johnson decided not to run for another term. He didn't resign; only Richard Nixon ever resigned the Presidency.
He didn't resign. Duh😂😂😂😂
@@steveshampine9047 her exact words are lost....she and her team won a Pulitzer in journalism for that Charleston newspaper back in 1962.... I miss her and she would thank you for correcting me. She got to ride on the Thresher too before it was lost..
Thanks for the context and the background. My parents were a bit too young and my grandfather and I talked a great deal about it in in the mid 00's, but he passed before seeing the current situation. Would love to hear his take on the last 10yrs.
I can barely remember watching that on television back then. I feel old now.
I was a student at Roosevelt University (2 blocks north of the Hilton) that summer. Roosevelt closed the school for week. I remember that week was WILD.
l am so damn old when i was born FDR WAS STILL IN OFFICE....Thank THG🎀
The joke on the protestors was that in all probability they got Richard Nixon elected.
Now watch how they learned nothing and do it again.
My parents had planned on taking the family to that Democratic Convention in '68 for vacation and an education for us kids. As we were driving from Grand Rapids, MI to the convention, our car got a flat that put us behind schedule, so we weren't there to see the actual mayhem and ended up driving back home because of the chaos. Interesting to look back on past events and realize just how significant they were then and now.
I'm of "a certain age" that I remember this. 1968 was a very tumultuous year for the entire world. 😥 🗺
I do too; I was in the military in '68. Fun times. Not.
“A certain age” lol ashamed to admit you’re a boomer? 😂
The Apollo 8 mission to orbit Earth's Moon 10 times with Borman, Lovell, ad Anders on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day was far and away the highlight of that news-intense year of 1968. TIME Magazine designated the astronaut trio as its Men of the Year.
@@Hola-ro6yvAfraid to admit that you are a Minillenial?
Let's see what happens this year ^_^
Thx THG
The founders of this country were adamantly opposed to political parties as disastrously divisive.
I read about the TET Offensive while folding newspapers for my paper route. It was an amazing story.
Our dad had been to a meeting in New York and saw Robert Kennedy speak on the back of a truck in Harlem. They were strong Kennedy supporters after that.
That summer our dad attended a professional convention in Denver and used that as an excuse to take the family on a vacation out west.
When we were in Denver our mom watched the Republican convention on the portable TV she brought along. I was curious, but not very interested.
After Denver we went on up to see Mount Rushmore and stayed in a cabin in Custer State Park. Our mom was watching the Democratic convention there and I was fascinated. She told me not to watch, but I couldn't get enough.
The police riots outside seemed to be spilling onto the convention floor and even Dan Rather found himself being arrested live on camera on the convention floor.
This all taught me that I really had to be a LOT more interested in politics, if only to understand what was going on.
After the Apollo 8 astronauts returned from their long trip around the Moon that Christmas, they received a telegram thanking them for "saving 1968."
Between the ‘68 Chicago Convention and Mayor Daily(?) I, a Democrat, distrusted ANYONE from Chicago. So I (a democrat) couldn’t vote for Obama. Glad he won but if Romney had won, we wouldn’t have had to live through a tRumpelthinskin fake presidency! I also blame Obama for making fun of tRump at the WH correspondents dinner. He must have vowed in his little mind to seek revenge.
The similarities were amazing, a President who was unable to declare War on Poverty,
cause He had a War over there.
Old Joe wanted to build back better,
but a War over there......
If you think back the similarities were amazing.
The Minneapolis Star and Tribune was pre folded for us.
They were also slave owners so let’s not venerate them quite so much.
In truth political parties are the end result of the system they themselves had a part in creating. They were always inevitable.
Yet every President beginning with George Washington were party affiliated
Washington was a Federalist. Jefferson was a Democratic-Republican.
2024 DNC convention, “Hold my beer.”
I was thinking the same thing!
😀 😀 🍺🍺
There will be blood
I don’t foresee anyone challenging.
Good Monday morning History Guy and everyone watching...
History is here to help in times like these.
I hear many groups will be protesting at the convention in Chicago this year. In late summer 1968 The Rolling Stones released the song Street Fighting Man and The Beatles released Revolution.
They won't. She has secured all the delegates she needs, and then some, via Zoom call. Waltz isn't going to be an issue. He became wildly popular from the get go. Besides: When the delegates vote for a ticket, they vote for the candidate and the VP candidate on that ticket. The delegates know that. They had already voted for her in 2020, and they will do it again in September. So who exactly would be protesting?
I was only 14 years old when this incident happened. I got to see it live on the first color TV that my family had ever bought.
The GOP was having problems with its own convention. It's not widely known today, but in the days just before the GOP convention, Nixon still hadn't locked up a clear majority of the delegates; he was still about 100 to 150 delegates short of a majority. So it wasn't till some politicking and horse-trading that Nixon got his majority.
The networks had just invented portable color TV cameras just a few years before. Voters didn't like all the politicking in real time that was going in to choosing a nominee. So the GOP went to a primary process for its future conventions as well.
I wasn't quite 7 years old when this happened, but I saw it on TV, with Dan Rather getting roughed up on the convention floor.
This couldn't have come at a better time.
“I am not a member of any organized political party-I’m a democrat!” - Will Rogers
The most accurate political statement ever made
So organizations can’t be incompetent? Apparently the DNC didn’t get the memo
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. Will Rogers
Will Rogers was an idiot.😮
I love Wil Rogers Jr’s quote about his father.
“Dad was full of $h!t.”
🤣😂
My dad was a hired musician trapped by the mayhem at Navy Pier that 1968 night, & my mom watched the news all night, terrified he'd never come home to us (but he did!). And here we are again 56 years later. Crazy.
We thought 1968 was wild. Regarding 2024 we ain't see nothing yet.
I'm not 100% sure I want to see but to say the least it will be interesting.
Another invasion of the Capitol in 2025 by the same sore losers as last time? 😉
No, what we saw with Hulk Hogan at the just recent Republican convention is just the start of "we ain't "see" nothing yet."
Are the Natural Guards out protecting the Chicago Water Supply?
We don't want no Acid Trips for Convention Goer's.....
@@WAL_DC-6B Jesse Ventura was about to go into the Navy in 1968......
How old was the Hulkster?
Trump is big in Allstars Wezzilng.....
I was 9 years old in 1968, but I definitely remember the Chicago Convention as well as all the rioting outside. It was all on television.
We can only hope this convention in Chicago will be even more chaotic
Thank you, thank you, thank you. With everything happening now having an explainer of this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Lance, you ROCK!
LBJ opted out. Now Biden has as well.
Veeps Humphry and Harris run for President without picking up one primary vote. amazing.
Nixon was a criminal. So is Trump.
Biden was “kindly” asked to see himself out. It wasn’t a personal choice…. As if he could have made one cogently 🤭
His handlers opted him out.
@@Concetta20 It took until the 1980's to pay off Brown and Root.....
The similarities make it seem like a TV Summer Re-Run.
But the longer you look at it,
the more similar the two Elections seem?
great information. and good timing. much appreciated !
I'm one sentence in and I'm already learning a new word. Quadrennial!
I would be interested, (done by you) in a chronological recap of all the riots of 1968.
Timely to say the least, buckel the seat belts. Lets pray that history will not repeat. I find it amazing that anyone can believe that " In this day and age" that it has not been worse. Freedom is scary and get a helmet. Thankyou history guy in leaving the poilitics lay and concentrate on the history. A truly nobel undertaking.
Unless you're putting him up for an award, the word is noble.
Timely! Love your work.❤
Fantastic episode again!!
I voted for the first time in 1968. I was overseas and in a Navy hanger with a P-3 moved outside. The ballots were for President, Senator, and Representative with the choices being Democrat, Republican, or Other with space to write in a name. They said that they would get each ballot back to our home state to be counted.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Thank you for this reminder of such crazy times. It helps me understand the current situation much better...
History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes..-Mark Twain
Thank you ! This is great work!
Excellent presentation. One of my earliest memories from childhood was watching the Democratic Convention in 1968 with my parents. I distinctly remember Dan Rather getting punched. Earlier, MLK's assassination was a shock particularly because it happened on my birthday. RFK's assassination was also a shock because the Kennedy family was from my home state. Incidentally, Abraham Ribicoff was not the senator from the Bay State but rather from the Nutmeg State. In any case, both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut are in New England and we New Englanders consider ourselves virtually a nation on our own.
Furthermore, as a New Englander from the Constitution state, New York is not part of New England, and for a New York team to call itself Yankees is an abomination! ( I just had to remind other folks of that salient fact).
Great episode!
Excellent and accurate presentation.
Wonderful, we all needed to hear this.
Is it not strange that this very year the Democrat Party is having its convention in Chicago, and as of yesterday, under the same circumstances? (except Trump didn't get killed)
I expect similar results. I was not quite 22 in1968 and it was the very first election I voted in. I voted for Humphry, only because it was Nixon who he was running against.
I'll let the rest go , for another day.
This is not just history the deserves to be remembered, but is history the MUST be remembered, because if we forget, history will repeat itself, and looks as if it is. ;-)
I was only a preteen at the time in ‘68, but I sure remember the commotion. What a mess it was!
I was17 and my 19 year old brother had just died in Vietnam. It was beyond just being a mess. This year will most likely get even uglier!
@@SeanVplayer i hope not... ill be protesting in chicago this year and want a peaceful demonstation.
Good timing on this!
A challenging subject to follow. I might have to watch it again. Take notes, make maps. Way too many players to keep it all straight. The prelude material was also difficult to follow completely.
Love the videos you make. This one is particularly timely.
Very well done!!
Thanks for this. It’s certainly something I never learned in history class. I did learn outside of school about the protests but not about the chaos going on inside.
My uncle was an Illinois National Guard member and was called to duty during this riot.
Thank you History Guy for choosing this topic. Though we live in interesting times now, when folks voice that recent years are unprecedented or somehow particularly bad, I always suggest they learn about the summer of ‘68. Now I have a specific video to share with them that is approachable enough to open the door of their interest.
I'm old enough to remember '68.
Thanks, we need a quick refresher on WTF happened.
I was 4, but I remember seeing it on TV.
Very timely. Shared
Just subscribed, never knew before this minute! Joey in Cleveland
You're back in Chicago, again this year.
Potentially the 2024 DNC could be a hold my beer moment.
Oh it'll be fun. Bring the popcorn, too.
There are certainly some similarities, but there are no strong challengers for Harris with the convention and there is Vietnam-like controversy to draw massive protests in the streets.
I hope you do the 1972 story next!
I was 16 years old at the time of the 68 convention. I remember well watching images of the Chicago police beating young men and women not much older than me and hauling them off. Watching that changed my world view for a number of years and had a profound effect on me. Thank you for this video. I think it would have been a bit more complete if you had shown more of what happened outside the convention. The whole world's watching.
I was 13 I remember Dan Rather being arrested on the Convention floor
If that wouldn't have changed your world view, Kent State just two years later would have.
Im new to this channel, but you sir are exactly what I wish we had more of. We can’t forget, because it just keeps recycling over and over the push and pull. If you know about cyclical theory that’s been huge in my world view because it’s unbelievably accurate.
I was born in Chicago in 1968 amongst chaos and I feel that's set the tone for my life
Great job THG. Just one error: Ribicoff was from CT not MA. Best,
Crowds moving to a free concert by the MC5 at "Peoples Park" contributed to the Battle of Michigan Avenue.
Am I correct in assuming that this video was already in the works before Biden dropped out? Either way, very timely, especially with the DNC returning to Chicago this year.
It was, though just barely before.
Love your videos
The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.
Richard J. Daley
I was alive at the time, though young. I remember the chaotic year of 1968. It looks like 2024 is shaping up to be, as the ancient Chinese curse states, similarly "interesting."
It's an Irish curse......
I read a Hubert Humphrey biography. He was quite the man, many would even say true Patriot. He ended with quite the raw deal overall.
He was not allowed to take a stand on Vietnam against his boss LBJ until it was too late in the campaign.
Even before the news of this past weekend, I was saying "Oh, I bet someone in the DNC is regretting their choice of Chicago now." But that was with my limited knowledge of the events back then. After watching this, I am *MORE* convinced that we may indeed see a very interesting convention that will be noted as historical.
I was 16 years old and watching the Dem Convention was entertaining to say the least. My Dad, a hard-core Republican said it was the best comedy show he ever saw. It still seems to me that each side kept one-upping the other to see what would happen....I'm not sure how far the Mayor of Chicago was willing to go, but it was really getting mean. I remember very well when Dan Rather and Mike Wallace got roughed up by Daley's people. I've always had a lot of respect for Hubert Humphrey.
Thank you History Guy
I was in eighth grade at the time and this was an influential event for an early teenager. I think popular music of the time (Beatles, the Woodstock Festival, and the youth culture) contributed, undoubtedly, to young folks' perspective of the election that year. The 1960s in the United States, in particular, is a huge historical goldmine.
Sadly, less than two years later would be the four unarmed Kent State University, Ohio students killed by Ohio National Guard soldiers while observing an anti-Vietnam War demonstration on campus during a break between classes. Nine other students, aged 19 and 20 years old, were wounded with one sustaining permanent paralysis. It was an event that shocked many of us at the time since we had never witnessed the military used in this way.
You did not mention the role of the Army in "Garden Plot" in Chicago. Soldiers from the 1st Armored division were sent there to help keep order and marched in line through streets with no ammunition and their bayonets shielded. I was in the 2nd Armored Division. We assembled at an Airforce base in Texas with real live ammo and unshielded bayonets, "just in case". There were large airplanes ready to deploy us to Chicago. I know! I was there!
Somebody else in the comments here backed up what you wrote with his own similar experiences of loading heavy-duty military equipment into planes in Texas, but it never left for Chicago.....
@@goodun2974 Yes, we sat at the Airforce base for days!
@@cicad2007 , probably a good thing that the equipment and additional manpower stayed in Texas; it could have been way worse than Kent State. The other commenter said there were howitzers, and flame throwers (to be used as teargas launchers), on the planes.
In '68, the Democrat powers-that-be basically gifted the nomination to Hubert Humphrey after Johnson dropped out. The chaotic Chicago convention that year was a response to this 'soft coup'.
Sound familiar? 😂😂
Just heard something about the'68 convention so tone to come back n REALLY hear about it
It really hasn’t changed all that much other than to give the voters an illusion that they have a say in the process. The party leaders will always get their hand picked candidates.
For sure. Look at what they did to Bernie Sanders. Not that I'm a Bernie Bro.
Abraham Ribicoff was US Senator (and US Representative) from CONNECTICUT. He also served as Governor of Connecticut.
Hopefully the one this year will be just as entertaining and controversial, or better yet even more so.
History Guy , why no mention of The Great State of Ohio. During the convention they were call upon multiple times for their nomination and they couldn't get it together 😅😊😊😊