This episode was released last summer but next week Chicago will host the DNC and given how crazy the last month has been it might be good to explore what happen then. This is a two part episode to belly up to bar and get ready.

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Original Summary:

Chicago will host the 2024 DNC convention but is is worth exploring the most tear-gassed convention in 1968.

The parallels are amazing.

History rhymes.

Overview of The Walker Report

Boss

ABC7: Days of Rage

Washington Post: ‘A party that had lost its mind’: In 1968, Democrats held one of history’s most disastrous conventions

ProPublilca: Looking at the Archives from the Time of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and Seeing Familiar Themes

Chicago Sun Times: Royko on Daley during the DNC

Bob Dylan: With God on Our Side 

ProPublica: Protests and Blaming the Media. Sound Familiar? That Was During the ’68 Democratic National Convention.

WTTW: When the Democratic Party Was Torn Apart

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