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In 1968, Mr. Zucker worked for the City of Chicago as an assistant corporation counsel, a lawyer. He was involved in arrests and litigation surrounding the riots after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death,…

Mr. Glass, who was twenty at the time of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, grew up with a politically connected grandfather in Chicago's 24th ward. His grandfather arranged for Glass to be a gr…

Hjordis grew up in west suburban Oak Park, Illinois and Jim, who was born in Missouri, graduated from college in Missouri and later entered the United States Navy. After school and military service, h…

Breakthrough Urban Ministries, a community based organization that provides social services on Chicago's West Side, and the Chicago History Museum collaborated on this oral history project. The Museum…

Ms. Shaw was widely involved in civil rights and social issues throughout her life. She described how, as a reporter for the Roosevelt University newspaper, she witnessed the rioting in Grant Park, in…

Mr. Viramontes was sixteen years old and working in the coatroom of the Chicago Public Library's main building at East Randolph Street and North Michigan Avenue during the Democratic National Conventi…

A college student at the time of the convention, Helen showed visitors around Chicago while working for Senator Eugene McCarthy's campaign. As a greeter and "hostess,"she wore a sundress with large da…

An officer in the Chicago Police Department for the 18th district, Padar was on duty during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in twelve hour shifts. Threats the week before the DNC made the pol…

John Fitzgerald was a lifelong resident of the Rogers Park community area. He described a typical middle class upbringing in a household that was not political. Mr. Fitzgerald recounts extensive invol…

Ms. Bradbury was a graduate student at the University of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. She attended a well-known demonstration in Grant Park during convention week and experi…

Barbara was sixteen years old and living in west suburban Oak Park, Illinois with her family in 1968. Taking advantage of her parents being out of town, Barbara ventured downtown to volunteer at Senat…

Ms. Gidden worked as a Senator Eugene McCarthy "hostess"in the delegates' lounge at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. She did not support the protestors' methods. However, on Wednesday night during the riots,…

Having interned in Washington, D.C. for the Young Democrats, Mr. Remer volunteered for the Democratic Party during the Democratic National Convention, witnessing the preparations for the convention. H…

Mary Kirby was born in Chicago in 1947 and raised in north suburban Waukegan, Illinois. Ms. Kirby's Irish Roman Catholic family was very involved in politics. Her father was an attorney, and her mothe…

A reporter for the Chicago Tribune in Lincoln Park during the Democraitc National Convention, Mr. Judge witnessed the tensions between police and protestors. He was later assigned a body guard by the…

Mr. Merrion was a student at DePaul University College of Law in 1968 when he volunteered at the Democratic National Convention (DNC). He was assigned to the Conrad Hilton Hotel as a driver for lower-…

Mr. Ronald Smith was on the frontlines of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Working as a beat officer for the Chicago Police Department, personnel from his district were transported to Grant Pa…

Marilyn Katz was born and raised in the East Rogers Park neighborhood. In the mid-1960s, while a student at Northwestern University, she joined the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and started…

Sue Levins grew up in a middle-class family in Skokie and was home on summer vacation from her studies at the University of Miami during the 1968 convention. She went to Lincoln Park on the first day…

Bernard Biernacki was born in Chicago and lived in the Bridgeport community area until his marriage in the mid-1970s. At that point, he and his wife moved to west suburban Aurora. While studying journ…