Video: 'The Hubert Humphrey Presidential Campaign of 1968'

(Saturday, April 27, 1968, 1:00 p.m. EST; during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1968) — Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination today during a televised speech to 1,700 friends and supporters jammed into the Regency Ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington.

Humphrey joined Senators Robert F. Kennedy of New York and Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota in the presidential race.

Humphrey’s boss, President Lyndon B. Johnson, had announced Mar. 31, 1968, that he would not seek re-election.