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 ...

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 ...

Anti-Vietnam War candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota won Wisconsin's April 2 Democratic primary, following his second-place finish in New Hampshire the previous month. McCarthy's win in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He was 89. McCarthy died in his sleep at assisted living home in the Georgetown neighborhood where he had lived for the past few years, said his son, Michael. Eugene McCarthy challenged President ...

He was 89. McCarthy died in his sleep at assisted living home in the Georgetown neighborhood where he had lived for the past few years, said his son, Michael. Eugene McCarthy challenged President ...