Project 1968's History and Mission

Project 1968 is a Blog Docu-Novel of my full-length play titled, "War is Kind: The 1968 Democratic Convention."
This play was the culmination of a year's worth of research at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, as well as visits to the Chicago National Archives and the Chicago Historical Society.

For Project 1968, source material includes the Eisenhower Commission reports from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, White House Confidential files, FBI & CIA files, Chicago 7/8 Trial documents, and out of print books. NY Times and other newspapers from around the country help fill out the daily details of events.

This story is important because the perspective of women from that time period has been largely ignored. This is due to the rampant sexism of that period. There was a reason, after all, that the women's movement gained momentum - just after 1968. McCarthy's story has also been ignored. He hasn't been given the credit he truly deserves for the role he played that year.

I was not alive back then. This is an advantage. I'm not plagued by the nostaligic baggage of those who are still invested in memories of their youth. I will publicly admit, for the first time, that I'm a political agnostic. For me, the question isn't who I will support in 2008 - it's whether or not I'll vote. After all, the last time I voted in a presidential election was in 1992. There are a number of reasons for that, which is just one of the reasons I chose to create the Project.

Many people ask, "What's a Blog Docu-Novel?" It's a term I made up to describe a novel that can be documented and blogged.