In Chicago, will the 1968 DNC be a prologue for 2024?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Massive anti-war protests, an assassination attempt, an incumbent US president standing down for re-election – all ahead of a Democratic National Convention set in Chicago. The headlines from the past few months have struck more than a few chords with those who remember the chaos and violence of the Democrats’ 1968 convention. As this year’s DNC begins, what can we learn from one of the most tumultuous political conventions the US has ever seen?
In this episode:
- Garrison Hayes (@garrison_hayes), Journalist
- Howie Emmer, Activist during 1968 DNC
- Gerard ibn Earl Bilal, Multimedia producerÂ
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Chloe K Li and Ashish Malhotra with Manahil Naveed, Veronique Eshaya, Shraddha Joshi, and our host Malika Bilal. It was edited by Alexandra Locke.
The Take production team is Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra, Catherine Nouhan, Chloe K. Li, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Khaled Soltan, Manahil Naveed, Marcos Bartolomé, Sarà el-Khalili, Shraddha Joshi, Sonia Bhagat, Tamara Khandaker, and Veronique Eshaya. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, a Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a last-minute candidate change, and massive anti-war protests. |
| 0:20.2 | All-world watching! All-world watching! candidate change and massive anti-war protests. The echoes of 1968 at this week's D&C. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm Olegia Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 0:49.4 | The Take is in Chicago at the Democratic Convention this week, where Kamala Harris and Tim Walls will accept their nominations for the 2024 election. |
| 0:54.4 | Chicago is my hometown. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Gerard Ibn Earl B. Lowe. |
| 1:00.5 | It's his, too. |
| 1:02.7 | That's my dad. |
| 1:04.4 | He was there when the DNC came to the city in 1968. |
| 1:08.6 | He was about a month away from turning 20, |
| 1:13.4 | a year younger than the voting age in the U.S. back then, but old enough to fear being drafted into the Vietnam War. |
| 1:18.4 | American soldiers hiking their way through the sweaty jungles of South Vietnam, |
| 1:23.2 | searching for an elusive enemy. |
| 1:25.5 | Like many parts of the country, Chicago was on edge, following several high-profile assassinations. |
| 1:31.3 | As we told you a moment ago, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas today. |
| 1:39.3 | Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, an apostle of nonviolence, died violently |
| 1:45.4 | last night in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 1:48.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:49.8 | Senator Kennedy has been shot, and another man, a Kennedy campaign manager, and possibly |
| 1:57.3 | shot in the head. |
| 1:59.4 | It was the peak of the fight for desegregation and black civil rights, |
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