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[Photograph: Dan Rather struggling with security guards at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.]

The 1968 Democratic National convention was the most turbulent political convention in modern times. The well-known incident in which Dan Rather was shoved to the ground by security guards was Rather's first well-known freak incident. See also Gunga Dan Video.

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