ABC7 Chicago takes a look back at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the protests that surrounded on its 50th anniversary. Here is our complete coverage: The 1968 Democratic ...

In this year’s presidential election, terms such as “law and order” and “the silent majority” have been heard fairly often from Donald Trump and some of his supporters. Those phrases hark back to an ...

Almost fifty years ago, on March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson stunned everyone by announcing that he would not run for a second term as President. Johnson had gone on television at nine o’clock that ...

Late at night, early in the morning, an anxious population worries about where the country is headed. The United States is mired in an unwinnable war. Washington is in disarray, its international ...

CNN’s Original Series Event “1968,” a four-part miniseries, airs Sunday, May 27, and Monday, May 28, at 9 p.m. ET. A president with low approval ratings. Tensions between the US and North Korea.

THE TET Offensive in Vietnam. The assassination of Martin Luther King. The French May. The Prague Spring. Black Power fists at the Olympics in Mexico City. Mayhem outside the Democratic convention in ...

The most traumatic year in modern American history was 1968. But what is now the second-most traumatic year, 2020, still has seven months to run. The comparison provides little comfort, and several ...

In the newly released comedy “Godard Mon Amour,” Michel Hazanavicius’ playful flashback to France in the fateful year of 1968, a young Jean-Luc Godard (played by Louis Garrel) marches with an enormous ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. 1968 was the year the center did not hold. It was the year many Americans ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Next week, the Democratic National Convention returns to Chicago. It’s the same host city as in 1968, a year when fraught ...

Teachers at Garfield High School were winding down classes for the approaching lunch break when they heard the startling sound of people — they were not sure who — running through the halls, pounding ...