Many reflect on 1968 riots in Chicago during DNC

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Marvin Mandel was chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party in the late summer of 1968, four months away from becoming the Free State governor after Spiro Agnew was elected vice president of the United States on the Nixon ticket.

What he saw in and around the Democratic National Convention that year in Chicago appalled the then Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.

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