1968
Tet Offensive
There was a series of massive coordinated attacks throughout North Vietnam. This caused 1968 to become a critical year in the Vietnam War. The tet offensive showed that South Vietnam was not safe from attacks. In all, the people were scared.
Democratic Convention
Assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
The assassination of Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, during the campaign season for the United States Presidential election, 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
Election of 1968
Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace were all involved. Nixon became the new president of the United States.