04-11-2023, 01:00 AM
1968 in America – Bullet Points
“We are not coming to tear up Washington.
We are coming to demand that the government
address itself to the problem of poverty.” … MLK
It was the last sermon he delivered, on Palm Sunday,
March 31, 1968, at the Washington National Cathedral.
Five days later he would be assassinated
and DC would be torn up; it would burn.
The largest military presence in a US city
since the Civil War would ensue.
Already, on January 31st, the most American soldiers
had died in a single day during the war in Vietnam.
War protests were roiling across America.
Just two months after MLK,
Democratic presidential candidate, RFK
would be assassinated in LA.
Police in Chicago would brutalize protesters,
and the press, on national TV,
outside the Democratic convention.
An independent candidate from Alabama,
George Wallace, would run on the premise,
the promise, of segregation.
Richard Nixon, the ‘Law and Order’ candidate,
would win the presidential election.
Apollo 8 would leave earth's orbit
before the end of the year. The furthest
that humans would have travelled from Earth
in history.
Other than that, 1968 in America
was a fairly normal year,
as I prepared to enter high school...
“We are not coming to tear up Washington.
We are coming to demand that the government
address itself to the problem of poverty.” … MLK
It was the last sermon he delivered, on Palm Sunday,
March 31, 1968, at the Washington National Cathedral.
Five days later he would be assassinated
and DC would be torn up; it would burn.
The largest military presence in a US city
since the Civil War would ensue.
Already, on January 31st, the most American soldiers
had died in a single day during the war in Vietnam.
War protests were roiling across America.
Just two months after MLK,
Democratic presidential candidate, RFK
would be assassinated in LA.
Police in Chicago would brutalize protesters,
and the press, on national TV,
outside the Democratic convention.
An independent candidate from Alabama,
George Wallace, would run on the premise,
the promise, of segregation.
Richard Nixon, the ‘Law and Order’ candidate,
would win the presidential election.
Apollo 8 would leave earth's orbit
before the end of the year. The furthest
that humans would have travelled from Earth
in history.
Other than that, 1968 in America
was a fairly normal year,
as I prepared to enter high school...