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The protest was organised outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention Some 3,000 anti-war demonstrators clashed with police and National Guards  Because of TV coverage of convention, the following riots were widely viewed Davies was a longtime peace activist and national director of the community organizing program for the anti-war Students for a Democratic Society He died of lymphoma at his home in Colorado, aged 80, on Tuesday But Davis' wife said his legacy goes well beyond his pacifist activism 

Rennie Davis, 'Chicago Seven' activist, dead at 80 By AP reporter article Activists Jerry Rubin (left), Abbie Hoffman (center), and Rennie Davis speak with the press during a recess in their trial. The three are facing charges for conspiring to start the riots that tore through Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention Expand CHICAGO - Rennie Davis, one of the " Chicago Seven" activists who was tried for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that turned violent, has died. He was 80. Davis died on Tuesday of lymphoma at his home...

Rennie Davis, one of the "Chicago Seven" activists who was tried for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protest outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that turned violent, has died. He was 80.

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...