The only convention I ever saw that wasn't just one big dull infomercial was the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.   Now THAT was entertainment.  

 

Police beating up protestors.  I mean, they were giving those billy clubs a workout.  The protestors chanting "The whole world is watching!   The whole world is watching!"   Protestors getting dragged by their hair and tossed into paddy wagons. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYp1JgwotXU

 

Dan Rather got punched on the convention floor.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wItUjFU1i4M

 

A speaker at the podium addressed Mayor Daley directly, talking about "Gestapo tactics" and Mayor Daley giving someone the sign to cut off the microphone. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3v0rctksFU

 

Nothing can live up to that for pure entertainment value. 

 

By the way, the nominee wound up being Hubert Humphrey, a man with the nickname "The Happy Warrior," which really did not fit the mood of that convention.   I was pretty young, but I sat in front of that TV and absorbed every bit of that.  What a great TV show that was. 

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