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Monday, September 3, 2012

On the Lens Blog: Dodging the Police and Tear Gas at the 1968 Democratic Convention

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

When they convened in 1968 in Chicago, the Democrats, like the nation, were deeply divided. Outside the convention, protests got out of hand and the police came down hard - Barton Silverman, a Times photographer, captured it all, including an arrest.