1968: Week Nine
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
February 27: TV anchorman Walter Cronkite returns from Vietnam and tells viewers “the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.”
February 28: The U.S. Army asks for 206,000 soldiers and mobilization of reserve units for Vietnam.
February 28: Frankie Lymon dies in New York of […]
1968: Week Eight
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
February 20: British film director Anthony Asquith dies in London at age 65.
February 23: Otis Redding releases “The Dock of the Bay.”
February 23: Author Edna Ferber (“Giant”) dies at age 80.
February 23: Fannie Hurst dies in New York at age 78.
February 24: U.S. forces beat […]
1968: Week Seven
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
February 12: Eldridge Cleaver, a militant activist and Black Panther party member, publishes “Soul on Ice.”
February 12: Josh Brolin is born in Los Angeles.
February 16: Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon and their wives, as well as Mia Farrow, Donovan and Beach Boy Mike Love, fly […]
1968: Week Six
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
February 6: The Winter Olympics open in Grenoble, France.
February 6: George Wallace announces he will run for president.
February 7: Nick Adams dies in Beverly Hills of a drug overdose at age 36.
February 8: Communist forces kill 21 Marines at Khe Sanh.
February 8: At South Carolina State […]
