WASHINGTON -- Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam ...

Eugene J. McCarthy, 90, formerly of Clarks Summit, passed away on Thursday, November 7, 2024, at Allied Hospice Center. Born and raised in Scranton, he wasthe son of the late Eugene Sr. and Marion ...

The death on Saturday of Eugene McCarthy at the age of 89 comes at a moment when Americans appear torn over the same fundamentals that fueled his quixotic 1968 bid for the presidency. McCarthy seized ...

It is awkward but necessary to draw comparisons between Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign for president today with the 1968 Democratic campaign in which his own father was slain. But it is not Sen.

In the months since Eugene McCarthy’s campaign for the presidency, Washington has been alive with rumors about the Minnesota Senator’s political and personal plans. The two, it was said, were ...

In 1968, in the dark chill of a New Hampshire winter, a little-known poet from Minnesota shocked the political establishment and helped drive a United States president from office. The poet was Eugene ...

Before long, McCarthy's calls for new FBI leadership were cataloged and commented upon by FBI officials in a nearly 500-page file, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information ...

Film Producer Mary Beth McCarthy Yarrow shares her memories of the presidential election of 1968. Film Producer Mary Beth McCarthy Yarrow shares her memories of becoming involved in the 1968 ...

Having claimed an arsenal of 1,811 delegate votes — 499 more than he needs to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in August — Hubert Humphrey might understandably have been content to tend ...

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