Event
Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago, Illinois
22 Aug 1968 – 30 Aug 1968 · 41.88° N, 87.63° W
What the records say
- When
- 22 Aug 1968 – 30 Aug 1968
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 41.88° N, 87.63° W
Placed at the town its text puts it in, Chicago.
Summary
Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago, Illinois, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. president, and Edmund Muskie for vice president.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Demonstrationen und Polizeigewalt auf dem Demokratischen Konvent in Chicago”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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