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Kareem’s bold protest in 1968

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Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.

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Poor People’s March on Washington

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HAIR, the musical

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First successful bone marrow transplant

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Big Mac first introduced in the Pittsburgh area

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Shirley Chisholm – 1st black woman elected to the U.S. Congress

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POTUS, Lyndon B. Johnson — “I shall not seek, and I will not accept”…

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O. J. Simpson Heisman Trophy winner

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Kansas City Riots – Six Blacks Killed

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The Civil Rights Act of 1968

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Apollo 7 is launched from Florida for an eleven day journey

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Amazing Water landing

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Airlines Flight Fatalities

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1968 World’s Fair (or International Exposition) held in San Antonio, Texas

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Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

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La La Means I Love You

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San Francisco State University Strike

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Haight Ashbury – Grateful Dead FREE Concert

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Raw Footage – San Francisco

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Super Bowl II

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Motor Trend Car of the Year

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Yellow Submarine

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Planet of the Apes – Original

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Chicago police beat marchers unconscious at Democratic Convention

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Night of the Living Dead

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Jacqueline Kennedy is married to Aristotle Onassis

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Calvin Klein, Inc.

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Intel Corporation

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Summer Olympic Games, Mexico City – Tommie Smith and John Carlos

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Tlatelolco Square, Mexico City – Hundreds Killed

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National Organization of Women (NOW) – freedom ashcan

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Hubert Humphrey kicks off his presidential campaign

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The Thomas Crown Affair

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The Odd Couple

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Mayor Richard Daley opens the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

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Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia

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Richard Milhouse Nixon t- Spiro Agnew of Maryland as his running mate

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Alice’s Restaurant

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Muhammad Ali’s Iconic ‘Esquire’ Cover

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Abbie Hoffman’s “The Yippies are Going to Chicago

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Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968)

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Czechoslovakia Ludvik Vaculik releases his manifesto “Two Thousand Words

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Robert Kennedy’s funeral is held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York

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Robert Kennedy shot by Sirhan Sirhan [pro Palestinian]

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Andy Warhol is shot in his New York City

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Assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Address to the Nation Announcing Steps To Limit the War in Vietnam

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Martin Luther King Jr. leads a march in Memphis

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Antonin Novotny resigns the Czech presidency

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My Lai killing more than 500 Vietnamese civilians

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Senator Robert Kennedy enters 1968 Presidential race

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Eugene McCarthy campaign – 2,000 full-time student volunteers

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Walter Cronkite reports on his recent trip to Vietnam to view the aftermath of the Tet Offensive

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Embattled city of Ben Tre in South Vietnam.

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“I was a drum major for peace… for righteousness.”

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Executing a Viet Cong prisoner

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1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon

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Pueblo Incident, capture of the USS “Pueblo,” a Navy intelligence ship

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President Johnson’s 1968 State of the Union Address

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Prague Spring

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Violations of the Military Draft Laws

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Tet Offensive Documentary

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Birth of Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023)

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Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968)

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Intro of the bean bag chair, beanbag chair

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Intro of Hot Wheels

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Ziploc

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Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s daughter, Rory is born.

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Nixon beats Humphrey and Wallace

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Yuri Gagarin – died in MiG-15 jet fighter crash

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George Wallace – nuclear weapons

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Pringles

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Apollo 8 begins the first US mission to orbit the Moon

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Rosemary’s Baby

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