"'1968': The Year That Changed America" just started on east coast/CNN

[babylonsister]

https://www.cnn.com/shows/1968

'1968': The Year That Changed America

Sunday and Monday, May 27-28, at 9 p.m. ET

CNN's four-part Original Series Event '1968' looks back half a century at a year marked by the assassinations of MLK and RFK, a contentious presidential election, escalating anti-Vietnam War sentiment and more.

[dhol82]

1. It was truly a seminal year

I remember so many important things that happened then.
Fascinating.
There was a great article in Smithsonian Magazine at the beginning of the year on this subject. Worth a read.

[lapfog_1]

2. a continuum from World War 2 (which is really the continuation of WWI in many ways)

Al Stewart - Post World War II Blues

The day Robert Kennedy got shot down
The world was wearing a deeper frown
And though I knew that we'd lost a friend
I always believed we would win in the end
'Cause music was the scenery
Jimi Hendrix played loud and free
Sergeant Pepper was real to me
Songs and poems were all you needed
Which way did the sixties go?
Now Ramona's in Desolation Row
And where I'm going I hardly know
It surely wasn't like this before but
Oh, every time I look around
I feel so low my head seems underground
Well every day just seems to bring bad news
Leaves me here with the Post World War Two Blues

[PearliePoo2]

3. I remember 1968 very well. Boys in my high school class

Got drafted and never came back. CNN playing “Sounds of Silence “ brought back memories and tears.

[pangaia]

4. I remember it well.

For starters, I was living in Memphis then.

[mountain grammy]

5. The year my first son was born.

Other than that memorable moment, and the moon landing and the NY Jets, it was a pretty shitty year.

[samnsara]

9. moon landing was 1969..by then i was a teen mom....

[mountain grammy]

10. Oh you're right.. my little boy was a year old.

[oasis]

6. Definitely a year to remember. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. That was a crazy year. I remember it well.

[samnsara]

8. thank you.. i turned 18 then..my coming of age

[babylonsister]

11. I was 12 and I remember so much. My

parents also liked to be informed, it seems. Or, I absorbed info through the years.

And then there's the music!

[Kirk Lover]

12. This is very informative to those who did not live through these times. There is so very much

to learn.

[Upthevibe]

13. I'm watching it now...n/t

[Doc_Technical]

14. With all the madness of that year,

it ended with Apollo 8 going around the moon and the
breathtaking photos they brought back of our
blue home.