A storm of police clubs slams into protesters, who recoil clutching at bloody wounds.
Tear gas casts an ominous fog around officers in blue helmets and riot shields.
Nervous politicians lose control while screaming left-wing radicals and credentialed news reporters get beaten to the ground. The media burned these images of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago into our consciousness at the same time Americans came to realize just how much the Vietnam War was tearing the nation apart. But protests were escalating nationwide. Catholic priest Phillip Berrigan and other war resisters had recently received six-year sentences for pouring blood on draft records in Baltimore. Martin Luther King Jr. joined 300,000 people in a New York anti-war march, noting that black men without college deferments were being drafted in dramatically disproportionate numbers to whites.