Here's a shot of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, when Mayor Daley's cops launched a "police riot" (according to the Walker Commission report) while anti-war demonstrators shouted "The whole world is watching." Are we in for another year like 1968? Some people think so. The year was a crossroads of turbulent change culturally and politically; a watershed year for music and film against the backdrop of a divided nation, an unpopular war, and career politicians deaf to the shifting times. Are we at another crossroads, forty years on?Chicago 10 movie trailer
An article from the Post-Bulletin:
http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=35&a=321854
An interesting project, "The Whole World is Watching," with audio clips:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/
Cream perform "Crossroads" live in 1968
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