1968: Weeks 50-52
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
December 9: The Rolling Stones release “Beggar’s Banquet.”
December 10: Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk writer, dies in Bangkok, Thailand from accidental electrocution. He had just finished his seventh journal “The Other side of the Mountain.”
December 10: Carol Reed’s “Oliver!” starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed, opens.
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1968: Weeks 47-49
Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
November 18: Famed producer Walter Wanger dies at age 74.
November 20: The Monkees’ “Head,” directed by Jack Nicholson, opens.
November 22: The Beatles’ “White Album” is released.
November 23: Four people hijack a U.S. jet, with 87 passengers, from Miami to Cuba.
November 24: Eldridge Cleaver flees the U.S. […]
