It Didn't Take Rocket Science to Predict that Riot

This weekend I found something neat. At a yard sale in Berkeley, sitting right on top of a box of old magazines, was this issue of Life from Aug 23, 1968, predicting that some serious shit was going to be going down at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. I'm posting this completely free of political commentary. Forty years have passed and each side has politicized this event enough. This posting is about showing a piece of history, not commenting on it. Just click the cover to go back in time. For more info on what went down at the convention, click here. And for more fun scans from the past including the Newsweek article about Patty Hearst and the SLA and some scary recipe cards from the '70s, check out my Odds n' Ends page.