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The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, Monday, Aug. 19, through Thursday, Aug. 22.
The main programming at the DNC is expected to run from around 6:30 p.m.-11 p.m. ET (5:30 p.m.-10 p.m. CT).
How to watch
NPR will have live video from the United Center each night of the convention starting at 6 p.m. ET.
On Wednesday and Thursday night, NPR will be hosting live coverage on video with reporters in Chicago and in Washington, D.C.
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The history of the DNC in Chicago
Chicago has hosted 鈥� most recently the , and perhaps most notably the .
As NPR senior editor and correspondent , "Chicago 鈥�68 has been repeatedly conjured as the epitome of disaster like the sinking of the Titanic, or the stock market crash of 鈥�29."
At , President Lyndon Johnson had announced he was not running for reelection, and Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Vice President Hubert Humphrey was then left to battle it out for the nomination with anti-war Sen. Eugene McCarthy.
Huge crowds of demonstrators came to Chicago in 1968 for the DNC, protesting U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, pushing for racial equality and an end to poverty.
Protesters and police ended up clashing, with violent images on TV
But beyond the convention location, there have been a number of echoes of 1968 playing out in 2024. (And not just in the political world: Both years also saw new Planet of the Apes movies, and U.S. moon missions, as .)
In April, historian Keith Orejel summed it up
"I mean ok, Columbia has unrest and there's widespread anti-war activism, that might be coincidence. But there is a guy named Robert Kennedy running for president and the [Democratic National Convention] is in Chicago. Like is this a bit?"
A few months later we had President Biden announced
But while over this week's convention, especially as it relates to protesters and security, than it was in 1968 鈥�
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