Mr. Chairman, my fellow americans my fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. applause this moment is one of personal pride and gratification. Yet one cannot help but well reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted lid regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city. And for the personal injuries which have occurred. Thats Hubert Humphrey accepting the 1968 democratic nomination for president. A chicagos comrade hilton hotel. The democrats had gathered for the convention in the midst of the vietnam war while thousands of protesters demonstrated outside. Hubert humphrey longtime minnesota senator and unsuccessful candidate for president in 1968 is the focus of this weeks contenders program. We are live from Minnesota History center. Mick caouette is the documentarian of Hubert Humphreys life. Just finished documentary last year. We are standing in the middle of an exhibit about the tumultuous year of 19
To us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his exhibits in the herblock gallery. Herb block was a midwestern born cartoonist. He began his career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start. And he was radicalized, not leftleft, put pushed him further towards the center but a Great Depression and then the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company, the Newspaper Enterprise Association which was situated in cleveland, ohio. And then 1946, right after the second world war, he joining the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his career, and he died about six weeks after his last cartoon appeared in the Washington Post. His last cartoon appeared on august 26th, 2001. And he died just a week shy of his 92nd birthday in october. The library of congress has the herbblock collection. We had about 16,000 of his editorial cartoons, but we have nearly all of the work he produced for the Washington
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100,000, with a grand price of 5,000. For more information go to our website, studentcam. Org. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, mu seems and Historic Sites around the country. The library of congress houses the largest collection of political cartoons by herbert block known as herb block. His career spanned 72 years, and he covered president s from Herbert Hoover to george w. Bush. The librarys sara duke talked to us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his cartoons many on exhibit in the herblock gallery. He began his working career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start, and he was radicalized not like leftleft, but it pushed him further toward the center, by the Great Depression and the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company the newspaper enterprise, which was situated in cleveland ohio. Then he joined the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his car
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