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.
Eugene McCarthy & Robert Kennedy
The antiwar movement.
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)
Democratic National Convention in Chicago Illinois .
Richard J. Daley
Eugene V. Debs
the assassinations increased tensions among delegates, antiwar protesters, and the police
Campus Antiwar Network was created in 2003.
The protestors chanted antiwar phrases outside of the United Nations building.
Warmonger
Antiwar
The antiwar movement was especially strong at colleges because students were of draft age.