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Recreating riots: a group known as Recreate '68 is planning demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention that could recreate the chaos of the 1968 convention in Chicago.(ELECTIONS)
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1968. For nostalgic, aging radicals, that year is fondly remembered as b the zenith of their glory days, when their demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the American "system" reached a fever pitch, culminating in the televised violence and riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. For most other Americans old enough to remember that time 40 years ago, it is marked as one of the darkest in American history, a year of riots, revolution, murder, and mayhem. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. (in April) and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (in June) were flash points punctuating a months-long series of deadly race riots, ...
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