Lyndon LaRouche Campaign Broadcast on ABC TV April 12, 1988. Despite a coordinated media slander campaign, a legal lynching intended to bankrupt his organization, and hostility from the party structure, Lyndon LaRouche soldiered on and ran as a Democratic presidential candidate in order to address the American people about the real issues. The economic collapse and the Soviet war drive. This broadcast features Lyndon LaRouche using the example of the bouncing ball to describe the stock market blowout of 1929 and 1988. I'm still baffled why anyone considers the Reagan era great, only that it looks relatively good in comparison with how bad things have gotten since.