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1968 Democratic National Convention

Forty Years After Chicago, We Have Not Found the Things We Lost

Judy Collins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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Judy Collins

The Chicago Seven were very serious peace activists and were baited into a festival of confusion instead of a festival of life in Chicago in 1968, launched to take the focus off the war.

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That's The Way It Wasn't

Sam Leff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Sam Leff

Some forty years after Walter Cronkite told it like it was and called the Chicago of 1968 "a police state," Tom Brokaw, A.O. Scott, and Andie Tucher told their own versions -- like it wasn't.

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Change the World? Give a Kid a Book

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

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Kenneth C. Davis

She was the town's meter maid -- a plus-sized meter maid, and not "the most comely of maidens." One day after choir, she handed me a book, saying simply: "I think you will like this."

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Protesters Rally As 1968 Democratic Convention Riot Police Hold Reunion

Chicago Tribune | Lauren R. Harrison | Posted 07.28.2009 | Chicago

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More than 70 people gathered on the Near West Side Friday night to protest a reunion of Chicago police officers who served during demonstrations at th...

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Information Gone Wild: Good News about Alerts

Richard Laermer | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

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Richard Laermer

Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings. Check your inbox. It's a Google Alert!

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Hoping Denver 2008 Won't be Chicago 1968

Monroe Anderson | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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Monroe Anderson

I have the dubious distinction of being one of the first journalists to be beaten by the Chicago police in 1968. I was a witness on the outside back then, and I'm a witness on the inside this week.

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1968 to 2008: We Must Not Screw This Up

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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Beth Arnold

Forty years ago my family was taking its annual vacation, which in the summer of 1968 was a trip to the Democratic National Convention, where my fathe...

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