50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968
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50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was slain in Memphis by a white gunman
President Johnson will not run for re-election: “I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party”
Senator Robert F. Kennedy said he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination, denouncing “disastrous, divisive policies” in Vietnam
President Johnson narrowly defeated Eugene McCarthy, the antiwar candidate, in the New Hampshire primary
Police gunfire killed two black college students and wounded more than 40 in a fourth straight night of violence in Orangeburg, S. C.
Armed with Soviet-made tanks, North Vietnam overtook an American camp near the Marine stronghold at Khe Sanh
The Vietnamese national police chief calmly executed a prisoner in the middle of
a Saigon street as President Johnson vowed, “We Americans will never yield”
The Viet Cong launched major attacks on seven cities on Tet, the Vietnamese new year
North Korea seized an American surveillance ship, the Pueblo, in a move Congress called an “act of war”
Green Bay beat Oakland, 33-14, to win Super Bowl II
Photo: Associated Press
It was also the year of the Tet offensive, an enormous attack by North Vietnamese forces,
and of more than 16,000 American deaths in the Vietnam War, more than in any other year.
Martin Luther King Jr. was slain in Memphis by a white gunman
President Johnson will not run for re-election: “I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party”
Senator Robert F. Kennedy said he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination, denouncing “disastrous, divisive policies” in Vietnam
President Johnson narrowly defeated Eugene McCarthy, the antiwar candidate, in the New Hampshire primary
Police gunfire killed two black college students and wounded more than 40 in a fourth straight night of violence in Orangeburg, S. C.
Armed with Soviet-made tanks, North Vietnam overtook an American camp near the Marine stronghold at Khe Sanh
The Vietnamese national police chief calmly executed a prisoner in the middle of
a Saigon street as President Johnson vowed, “We Americans will never yield”
The Viet Cong launched major attacks on seven cities on Tet, the Vietnamese new year
North Korea seized an American surveillance ship, the Pueblo, in a move Congress called an “act of war”
Green Bay beat Oakland, 33-14, to win Super Bowl II
Photo: Associated Press
It was also the year of the Tet offensive, an enormous attack by North Vietnamese forces,
and of more than 16,000 American deaths in the Vietnam War, more than in any other year.