NOSTALGIA: 1968, The Year That Changed the World - TIME
My goodness, it was just a trip to the Super Wal-mart to pick up medications from our friendly pharmacy staff and a few grocery items. Then waiting in the check-out line, “it” caught my eye - TIME 1968 - the flashbacks immediately started … because that was the best year of my life, I promise.
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER …
The TET Offensive
Signs of the Times, LOOK - FEEL - STYLES - SMILES
Johnson will not, not run for President
REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. assassinated in Memphis, TN
BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS EXPLODE
Pop Music - RAP
The siege of the KHE SANH
HAIR!
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TAKEN OVER BY STUDENTS
Senator Bobby Kennedy wins the California Democratic Primary … and is gunned down!
Pop Artist, Andy Warhol is shot in NYC Studio, called THE FACTORY…
“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” AW, 1968
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
The Graduate
Screen Scene 1968:Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?; Rosemary’s Baby; Night of the Living Dead; Barbarella; Funny Girl; Planet of the Apes
Czechoslovakia freedom for one brief moment …
Chicago Riots - 7 Tried
DISSENTERS: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin Yippees, Tom Hayden
OLYMPICS
Sport Greats: OJ Simpson :(, Jean Claude Killy, Peggy Fleming, Arthur Ashe, Detroit vs St. Louis - World Series, Vince Lombardi, Mohammed Ali
FAREWELL CAMELOT: Jackie Kennedy and Onassis
TV: Laugh In - “Sock it to me!”; The Mod Squad; Elvis; 60 Minutes; The Andy Griffith Show; The Prisoner
LAW, ORDER, NIXON? Nelson Rockefeller, George Wallace
Julie Nixon weds David Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
THE BEATLES: “Hey Jude” and “The White Album”
Norman Mailer, Author
Destination: HELL - North Korea seizes US spy ship
Borman, Anders, Lowell - First Generation Astronauts
Year’s End - New Perspectives - Where were you in 1968?
Courtesy of Time, Inc. “Specials: 40th Anniversary Special, TIME 1968″ 
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