1. Tonight is the 52nd anniversary of the event that changed my life -- "the Battle of Michigan Avenue," the violent police riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, against peaceful antiwar demonstrators
2. Was I there? Ha, no -- I just just a 9-year-old kid in the NYC suburbs. But watching the violence on our newfangled color TV made me wonder, what was going on in our world? And how would the good guys -- the people marching for peace and justice -- ever win?
3. I started to care about politics and, after Watergate, journalism. I wanted to witness world-changing events, and write about them. August 28, 1968, started a forward momentum in my life that has continued to this very day
4. Two years ago, on the 50th anniversary, I told the whole crazy story of that night and went it meant for me and -- much, much more importantly -- what it said about the mess we're in now. Here's where to start that thread from 2018
5. The wheel has come full circle. As I write this, people are in the streets of New York, DC, Kenosha, even in Chicago, marching for the social justice that was so violently beaten back on 8/28/68. I believe that we will win. We can change the world - 30 -
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