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14 April 2009 12:19 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Actor Robert Forster at West Hollywood eatery The Silver Spoon.

The Whole World Is Watching: Robert Forster Remembers Chicago ‘68

by Jon Zelazny

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on EightMillionStories.com August 21st, 2008

When the Democratic National Convention begins next week, a deeply divided party will strive to reunify, and attempt to forge a nationally acceptable policy to extricate the nation from a failed war.

Forty years ago this week, the Democratic Party was in similar straits. But the political wrangling at the 1968 convention in Chicago’s International Auditorium was wholly eclipsed by the events happening directly outside: the heavily-televised spectacle of brutal, ongoing street battles betweens thousands of Vietnam war protesters, the Chicago police, and the Illinois National Guard.

Robert Forster was there. Best known for his 1997 Oscar-nominated role as bail bondsman Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, the veteran actor covered the tumultuous ‘68 convention as a local TV news cameraman. »

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