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In reply to the discussion: 1968 (Your Help, Please!) [View all]L0oniX
(31,493 posts)15. MC5 - Speedway Meadows
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Those are fascinating posts, kentuck. The last paragraph made me feel very sad. To be alone,
sabrina 1
Jul 2014
#106
I had a similar experience of spending the night on a Georgia road to Warner Robins AFB to pick up
ancianita
Aug 2014
#125
my bil's dad found a Woodstock poster in the garbage and made $15k nt
Laura PourMeADrink
Jul 2014
#68
What sticks out? The betrayal by the Democratic Party of the anti-war movement.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2014
#2
The Democrats at the convention went for Humpty rather than McCarthy.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2014
#197
Yeah,....because us long haired hippie types were responsible for this...
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2014
#52
For some adults, my parents for example, Kent State and Watergate were the unravelling of their
LuckyLib
Aug 2014
#221
I was in command of an Army riot control squad that was on alert to go there
pinboy3niner
Jul 2014
#18
I was there too, and indeed the fact that none of us were killed remains suprising.
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2014
#23
The good guys kept dying at the hands of "lone gunmen". I smelled a putrid, stinking rat.
Scuba
Jul 2014
#21
i can feel the gut punches of losing bobby kennedy & martin luther king like it was yesterday.
spanone
Jul 2014
#26
I had just gotten out of the hospital & convalescent center at Cam Ranh Bay with
Jackpine Radical
Jul 2014
#48
Well, I was involved on a more tame/peaceful level but I can totally get what
Laura PourMeADrink
Jul 2014
#70
How many hours do you have, haha! 1968: Nixon elected during my birthday party. 1968: Chicago police
WinkyDink
Jul 2014
#80
Woodstock, Vietnam, Janice Joplin, Jimmy Hendrick & my friend's new Mustang.(maybe that car was '69)
misterhighwasted
Jul 2014
#81
Yes..67, 68, 69 kind of blurred together. so much DID happen in a short time
misterhighwasted
Jul 2014
#96
The middle of my undergraduate years at UC. Every guy we knew had a 2-S (student)
LuckyLib
Jul 2014
#91
I don't remember hearing about any formal tour, but I did see him occasionally on
LuckyLib
Aug 2014
#220
I watched the series. It's completely accurate and exactly the way I experienced it from high school
ancianita
Aug 2014
#121
It was blow after blow after blow, and by the end my heart was shattered in pieces
Hekate
Aug 2014
#136
The HBO series "from the Earth to the Moon" has an episode called "1968"
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#141
I was 8 years old that year, but not entirely unaware of the goings on in the adult world.
trackfan
Aug 2014
#210
The '68 Democratic Convention. I was watching with my husband's family at his parents'
CTyankee
Aug 2014
#219