An unsettling Times interview on the eve of this event quoted a 10 year-old child promising to "strangle" interlopers "with their [own] chains.
An unsettling Times interview on the eve of this event quoted a 10 year-old child promising to "strangle" interlopers "with their [own] chains." The course of this event was largely predicted a year earlier in the oral history Division Street: America, whose author Studs Terkel claimed that it could "only have happened" in a certain city. The aftermath of this event led to the adoption of the McGovern-Fraser Commission and the "Rights in Conflict" study by Daniel Walker. Abraham Ribicoff was called a "Jew sonofabitch" during this event for decrying the "Gestapo tactics" of a man who declared that "the policeman is there to preserve disorder," Mayor Richard J. Daley. For 10 points, name this 1968 event that saw riots engulf a major party's nominating convention in the Midwest.
An unsettling Times interview on the eve of this event quoted a 10 year-old child promising to "strangle" interlopers "with their [own] chains.
1968 Democratic Convention [or any equivalent mentioning the Democratic Convention and either 1968 or Chicago; note that 1968 is no longer needed after being mentioned in the question] [Editor's note: The first clue is about a small child threatening to strangle hippies with their peace pendants]