A YEAR OF TROUBLE
& TURMOIL

1968 Was a remarkable year, not only in the United States, but world-wide.  Trouble, civil disorder, & the threat of revolution was in the air in France, Britain, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and of course all of Indochina.
Even in the United States, there was more talk about revolution than there has ever been in the history of our nation.  Serious talk - and worse rioting in the streets of our cities - political assassinations - seditious plots and underground revolutionary movements. 
Just imagine, in one year, all of the following events occurred. Most normal years in modern U.S. history would be considered remarkable if only two or three occurred.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

The My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers killed 347 unarmed civilians.

The Tet Offensive, where North Vietnamese troops & Viet Cong guerillas attacked almost every major city in South Vietnam ON THE SAME DAY.

Prague Spring, in Czechoslovakia Soviet tanks & troops invade Prague to quash a budding anti-communist independence movement.

Riots break out in Paris, London, Mexico City & Bonn West Germany.

Students at Columbia University take over and "occupy" the administration building.

Dr. Benjamin Spock arrested for advocating defiance of U. S. Draft laws

President Johnson declines to run for re-election

Race riots, burning & looting break out in dozens of U.S. cities

The first U.S. commercial airliner is hijacked, and taken to Cuba

North Korea captures the U.S.S. Pueblo a U.S. spy ship & imprisons its 83 man crew
for 11 months

Democratic National Convention selects vice president Hubert Humphrey to run as its presidential candidate - Protesters outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago are brutally attacked by Chicago police in what is termed by the press as a "police riot"

Richard Nixon is elected as the 38th president of the United States

University of San Francisco students strike for 5 months




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