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 No more LBJ?  Who to nominate?  To the convention center!  Candidates: › Hubert Humphry › Eugene McCarthy › Edmund Muskie › George McGovern.

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2  No more LBJ?  Who to nominate?  To the convention center!  Candidates: › Hubert Humphry › Eugene McCarthy › Edmund Muskie › George McGovern

3  Protestors want to make their presence known. › The Youth International Party (Yippies) › Students for a Democratic Society › National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam  Mainly protesting The Vietnam War

4 “No thousands will come to our city and take over our streets, or city, our convention.” Mayor Daley’s Response

5 Over 10,000 protestors showed up.

6 The Youth International Party nominated a pig, Pigasus, to be their candidate in the DNC. Pigasus and seven other Yippies were arrested upon their arrival at the DNC

7  Police brutality captured on film and viewed by the world.  The Chicago 8 arrested and put on trial.  The trial becomes a mockery › Bobby Seale bound and gagged › Chicago 8 and attorneys all guilty of contempt of court. › Appealed– no jail time


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