Overview
American Experience looks at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Vice President Hubert Humphrey won his party's nomination for president amid massive civil unrest and violence perpetrated by Chicago Police and anti-Vietnam War protesters.
Cast
- David McCullough as Self - Host
- William Stanley Merwin as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Tom Wicker as Self - Journalist
- Albert Eisele as Self - Biographer
- Ted Van Dyk as Self - Humphrey Staff
- Marilyn Katz as Self - Antiwar Activist
- David Dellinger as Self - Antiwar Activist
- David Farber as Self - Historian
- Roger Wilkins as Self - US Justice Department
- Joel Weisman as Self - Chicago Journalist