Weekly timeline for 1968: A year of change and tumult
March 4: Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise†opens.
March 4: Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for a Poor People’s Campaign.
March 6: Psychedelic exploitation pic “Psych-Out,†directed by Richard Rush and starring Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Barbara Strasberg and Dean Stockwell (and with cinematography by the great Laszlo Kovacs) opens.
March 6: Actress Moira Kelly born in Queens, New York.
March 7: The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
March 8: Bill Graham opens the Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater in New York City.
March 8: University students in Warsaw protest the Communist regime in Poland resulting in clashes between police and students.
Sources:
The Whole World Was Watching: An oral history of 1968. A joint project between South Kingstown High School and Brown University’s Scholarly Technology Group
Timelines of History
Timeline 1968
Rock Timeline
Wikipedia Music Timeline
Frank Eugene Smitha’s Macrohistory and World Report