1968: Week Six
Posted on February 3, 2008
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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 three black students are killed in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley. Nearly 50 were injured in the Orangeburg Massacre during confrontations with the National Guard.
February 8: 20th Century Fox releases “The Planet of the Apes.â€
February 9: Aretha Franklin releases “Since You’ve Been Gone.â€
February 10: Peggy Fleming of the United States wins the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Winter Olympics.
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
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Coming in March
1968 WEEK
Barnes & Noble Bookstore Upper Westside
Tuesday, March 25 at 7pm
REVOLUTION ‘68:
How The Beatles Reflected a Rebellious Year
Charles Kaiser (1968 in America), First U.S. Manager of Apple Records Ken Mansfield (The White Book), Devin McKinney
(Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History),
and music critic Anthony DeCurtis (In Other Words:
Artists Talk About Life and Work)
Wednesday, March 26 at 7pm
POLITICS & PASSION ’68:
Robert Kennedy’s Race for President
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, writer Pete Hamill,
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas (Robert F. Kennedy: His Life),
and JFK and RFK advisor and former senator Harris Wofford
(Of Kennedys and Kings)
Thursday, March 27 at 7pm
POWER ’68:
Revisiting the Black Power Movement
Peniel E. Joseph (Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour:
A Narrative History of Black Power in America),
1968 Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith (Silent Gesture),
Herb Boyd (Baldwin’s Harlem) and Michael Honey
(Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike,
Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign)
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