Oh What A Year!
February 7, International reporters arrive at the embattled city of Ben Tre in South Vietnam. Peter Arnett, then of the Associated Press, writes a dispatch quoting an unnamed US major as saying, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” The quote runs nationwide the next day in Arnett’s report.
October 3, George Wallace, who has been running an independent campaign for the presidency which…
October 2, Police and military troops in Mexico City react violently to a student –…
On March 27, 1968, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space, died together with…
After an off-Broadway debut on October 17, 1967, at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, and a run at the Cheetah nightclub from…