Summary
THIS YEAR will be chock full of 1968 commemorations. Deservedly so, because that was a pivotal year in which the convulsions of a decade converged and the country slouched over the edge of a precipice.
It was, after all, the year of the Tet offensive in Vietnam, Walter Cronkite's televised farewell to victory in that wretched war, the My Lai massacre (unknown until the next year), Eugene McCarthy's presidential run, Columbia University's uprising, President Johnson's decision not to run for a second full term, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, scores of subsequent riots, Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, the Chicago Democratic Convention riots, the Miss America protest in Atlantic City, Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and election, and, for good measure, the first manned voyages in the Apollo program not to mention Prague Spring, the French student uprising, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and, in Mexico City, the massacre of protesting students and the black power salutes of Olympic athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith.See the full content of this document
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1968 the Whole World Was Watching
All this happened and deserves the most sober reflection and the repudiation of some commonplace errors.
First, the error of headline entrancement. One wrong way to remember 1968 is to see it as pure spectacle, nothing more than the star-studded ...See the full content of this document
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