In this exciting multimedia presentation, historian Barry Bradford explores the roots of the events that culminated in the Chicago Democratic Convention riots of 1968.
In this exciting multimedia presentation, historian Barry Bradford explores the roots of the events that culminated in the Chicago Democratic Convention riots of 1968.
From growing public frustration to the stalemate in Vietnam in the wake of the Tet Offensive to the insurgent campaign of Sen. Eugene McCarthy, politics in America were thrown into turmoil. And just as the country seemed more and more to be spinning out of control, we were hit with the shock of the public assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. All of these events and many more makes for an exceptionally exciting, thought-provoking, and mesmerizing presentation.
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