The Uprising
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Film / 1995
Chicago 1968
Directed by
Chana Gazit
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.
The story
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 McCulloughSelf - Host
William Stanley MerwinSelf - Narrator (voice)
Tom WickerSelf - Journalist
Albert EiseleSelf - Biographer
Ted Van DykSelf - Humphrey Staff
Marilyn KatzSelf - Antiwar Activist
David DellingerSelf - Antiwar Activist
David FarberSelf - Historian
Roger WilkinsSelf - US Justice Department
Joel WeismanSelf - Chicago Journalist
David StahlSelf - Chicago Deputy Mayor
Abe PeckSelf - Anitwar Activist
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Thomas ForanSelf - US Attorney, Illinois
Rennie DavisSelf - Antiwar Activist
Richard SamuelSelf - McCarthy Delegate
William FrapollySelf - Undercover Police
Mike SpiegelSelf - Antiwar Activist
Frank SullivanSelf - Police Spokesman
Tom HaydenSelf - Antiwar Activist
Reuven FrankSelf - NBC News
David GinsburgSelf - Humphrey Staff
Edward CollinsSelf - Chicago Police
Bill AyersSelf - Antiwar Activist
Jean WallinSelf - McCarthy Delegate
Joseph AliotoSelf - Mayor, San Francisco (archive footage)
Richard J. DaleySelf (archive footage)
Wayne HaysSelf - Representative, Ohio (archive footage)
Hubert H. HumphreySelf (archive footage)
Eugene McCarthySelf (archive footage)
Pierre SalingerSelf - Convention Speaker (archive footage)
Theodore SorensenSelf - Convention Speaker (archive footage)
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