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High School Graduation
I'm standing on the front lawn of our Granada Hills house, wearing my cap and gown and holding my senior year high school yearbook for 1968.
In this final semester of high school Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, Vietnam was raging, the Sunset Strip was the cool place to hang out along with cruising Van Nuys Blvd. and hanging out at Bob's Big Boy.
Other events of 1968: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC... The Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam... Ex-The Teenagers singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem... Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground near Skull Valley, Utah (supposedly the USA would NEVER be experimenting with such things)... My Lai massacre in Vietnam - American troops kill scores of civilians... The Congress of the United States repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency... U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968... Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university... The musical Hair officially opens on Broadway... The Catonsville Nine enter the Selective Service offices in Catonsville, Maryland, take dozens of selective service draft records, and burn them with napalm as a protest against the Vietnam War... The Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established... The soap opera One Life to Live premieres on ABC... Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état... The Prague Spring of political liberalization ends, as 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia... Police clash with antiwar protesters in Chicago, Illinois outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. President, and Edmund Muskie for Vice President... Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission (Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham)... The Games of the XIX Olympiad are held in Mexico City, Mexico... In Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 2 African-Americans competing in the Olympic 200-meter run, raise their arms in a black power salute after winning the gold and bronze medals for 1st and 3rd place... Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy marry on the Greek island of Skorpios... Richard M. Nixon wins his first Presidential election... Yale University announces it is going co-educational... The White Album is released by The Beatles... The film Oliver! is released and goes on to win the Oscar for Best Picture... David Eisenhower marries Julie Nixon, the daughter of U.S. President-elect Richard Nixon... North Korean patrol boats capture the USS Pueblo... Arlo Guthrie performs his 20-minute "Alice's Restaurant" to rave reviews... the unemployment rate, at 3.3 percent, is the lowest it has been in fifteen years... "Hey Jude" by the Beatles is the Number One song of 1968... "Funny Girl," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Romeo And Juliet ," and "Planet Of The Apes" are 1968's most popular movies.
Births in 1968 include actor Cuba Gooding Jr. as well as gymnast Mary Lou Retton, film director and writer John Singleton, American rapper and actor LL Cool J, Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Marie Presley, Canadian singer Céline Dion, American terrorist Timothy McVeigh, American skateboarder Tony Hawk, and Egyptian terrorist Mohamed Atta al Sayed.
Deaths in 1968 include actor Charlie Chaplin, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, French artist Marcel Duchamp, actor Ramón Novarro, writer Upton Sinclair, actress Tallulah Bankhead, and writer John Steinbeck.
High School Graduation
I'm standing on the front lawn of our Granada Hills house, wearing my cap and gown and holding my senior year high school yearbook for 1968.
In this final semester of high school Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, Vietnam was raging, the Sunset Strip was the cool place to hang out along with cruising Van Nuys Blvd. and hanging out at Bob's Big Boy.
Other events of 1968: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC... The Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam... Ex-The Teenagers singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem... Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground near Skull Valley, Utah (supposedly the USA would NEVER be experimenting with such things)... My Lai massacre in Vietnam - American troops kill scores of civilians... The Congress of the United States repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency... U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968... Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university... The musical Hair officially opens on Broadway... The Catonsville Nine enter the Selective Service offices in Catonsville, Maryland, take dozens of selective service draft records, and burn them with napalm as a protest against the Vietnam War... The Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established... The soap opera One Life to Live premieres on ABC... Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état... The Prague Spring of political liberalization ends, as 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia... Police clash with antiwar protesters in Chicago, Illinois outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. President, and Edmund Muskie for Vice President... Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission (Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham)... The Games of the XIX Olympiad are held in Mexico City, Mexico... In Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 2 African-Americans competing in the Olympic 200-meter run, raise their arms in a black power salute after winning the gold and bronze medals for 1st and 3rd place... Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy marry on the Greek island of Skorpios... Richard M. Nixon wins his first Presidential election... Yale University announces it is going co-educational... The White Album is released by The Beatles... The film Oliver! is released and goes on to win the Oscar for Best Picture... David Eisenhower marries Julie Nixon, the daughter of U.S. President-elect Richard Nixon... North Korean patrol boats capture the USS Pueblo... Arlo Guthrie performs his 20-minute "Alice's Restaurant" to rave reviews... the unemployment rate, at 3.3 percent, is the lowest it has been in fifteen years... "Hey Jude" by the Beatles is the Number One song of 1968... "Funny Girl," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Romeo And Juliet ," and "Planet Of The Apes" are 1968's most popular movies.
Births in 1968 include actor Cuba Gooding Jr. as well as gymnast Mary Lou Retton, film director and writer John Singleton, American rapper and actor LL Cool J, Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Marie Presley, Canadian singer Céline Dion, American terrorist Timothy McVeigh, American skateboarder Tony Hawk, and Egyptian terrorist Mohamed Atta al Sayed.
Deaths in 1968 include actor Charlie Chaplin, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, French artist Marcel Duchamp, actor Ramón Novarro, writer Upton Sinclair, actress Tallulah Bankhead, and writer John Steinbeck.