Reply #65: It's not QUITE that simple

[Ken Burch]

The rage in the streets in Chicago(some of which, it was later revealed, was instigated by FBI informants and police provocateurs in the crowd)was caused in large measure by the arrogant decision of Lyndon Johnson and his minions to impose a pro-war platform and an(apparently)unabashed hawk as nominee on the party despite the overwhelming vote for peace, increased social spending and party reform in the Democratic primaries.

If LBJ had just done the decent thing and not tried to influence the nominating process, there'd have been no craziness in the streets.
And if LBJ had gone public with the proof he had in the fall of 1968 that the Nixon-Agnew campaign had intervened in the Paris Peace talks with the intent of preventing an end to the war before the election, Humphrey would have won going away.

You can't put ALL the blame on the doves. The party pushed them too far that year.