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What popular Democratic anti-war candidate was assassinated the night he won the 1968 California primary?
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Bobby Kennedy.
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What popular Democratic antiwar candidate was assassinated the night he won the 1968 California primary?
What issue did the students for democratic society focus on by 1964?
The antiwar movement.
Was Lyndon B. Johnson at the 1968 democratic convention?
he 1968 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago and Hubert H. Humphrey was selected as the presidential candidate. But the was a great deal of dissension inside the convention over the Vietnam War. There were also bloody antiwar demonstrations on the streets and in the parks of Chicago. (link)
Why did antiwar democrats protest the convention?
Yippies carried out demonstrations in the streets outside the 1968 Democratic Convention. Chicago Police attacked them. Anti-War Protesters were trying to influence the Democratic Convention to choose a Peace Candidate to end the war in Vietnam which had escalated rapidly under LBJ.
In 1968 antiwar protesters and police clashed outside the?
Democratic National Convention in Chicago Illinois .
Who were two antiwar candidates for the democratic party's presidential nomination in 1968?
Eugene McCarthy & Robert Kennedy
The Chicago mayor who had the police out in force against antiwar activists at the democratic national convention in 1968 was?
Richard J. Daley
Who were the two antiwar candidates for the democratic party's presidential nomination in 1968?
Eugene McCarthy, junior senator from Minnesota was the first active anti-war candidate. He was so successful in the early primaries that the incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, dropped out of the race and Sen. Robert Kennedy from NY became another anti-war candidate, more or less.
Socialist leader who won nearly a million votes as a presidential candidate while in federal prison for antiwar activities?
Eugene V. Debs
How did the assassination of Martin Luther king Jr. and Robert Kennedy influence the 1968 democratic convention?
the assassinations increased tensions among delegates, antiwar protesters, and the police
When was Campus Antiwar Network created?
Campus Antiwar Network was created in 2003.
How do you use antiwar in a sentence?
The protestors chanted antiwar phrases outside of the United Nations building.
