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Some 3,000 anti-war demonstrators clashed with police and Illinois National Guardsmen on Aug. 28, 1968, near the convention. Police clubbed demonstrators and conducted mass arrests. An investigative commission later described the clash as a “police riot.” Richard Schultz remembers exactly where he was on the evening of Aug. 28, 1968. Along with colleagues from the U.S. Attorney’s office, he was at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo, watching a riot stemming from the Democratic National Convention. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports. Davis and four co-defendants — Tom Hayden, Je...

Rennie Davis, ‘Chicago Seven’ Antiwar Activist, Dies at 80 The trial arising from the “police riot” at the 1968 convention thrust him into the spotlight. He later became an unlikely spokesman for a teenage guru. Rennie Davis in August 1968 in Chicago. He was there as an organizer of protests at the Democratic National Convention and was later tried as a member of the Chicago Seven.Credit...Julian Wasser/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images Feb. 3, 2021 Rennie Davis, who lived out one of the more quixotic journeys of the 1960s generation when he went from leading op...

When Mob Inciters Become Lions of the Left An Aaron Sorkin film celebrates the Chicago Seven for plotting an attack on a party convention. Wonder Land: The collapse of liberal elites under a leftist offensive has been in the making since the 'Summer of Love.' Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly By Helen Andrews Jan. 13, 2021 12:17 pm ET The Chicago Seven were countercultural heroes in the 1960s. They thumbed their noses through one of the country’s most notorious political trials, taunting the judge and making a mockery of the proceedings w...

Music and Politics Wednesday 30 December 2020, by Jon Wiener When John Lennon was murdered forty years ago, on December 8, 1980, we believed Richard Nixon had been the worst president ever — because of the war in Vietnam, because of the repression that he called “law and order” and the racism of the Southern Strategy, and also because of his treatment of Lennon. Nixon had tried to deport Lennon in 1972 when the former Beatle made plans to lead an election-year effort to challenge the Republican president’s reelection with a campaign to register young people to vote. In the end, of co...

Craig HudsonGetty Images My first encounter with Washington's Hotel Harrington (est. 1914) came 40 years ago this coming January. The Boston Phoenix sent me down to D.C. to cover the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States. The "alternative press" being what it was—and, sadly, is no more—the Harrington was the perfect base camp, having fulfilled the Phoenix's only requirement for employee travel, to wit: it was the cheapest room they could find. So my photographer and I established ourselves in our seventh floor room—photog gets the rollaway, I didn't make the...