1968 - Year of War, Turmoil & Beyond | Free Documentary History

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In January 1968 a surprise attack by the North Vietnamese, known as the Tet Offensive, convinced many Americans that the war was not going to end very soon. Large-scale opposition flared against the Johnson administration and its policies. Federal troops put down race riots while bitter protests erupted on campuses in the USA. In Paris that May, there was a “social revolution”. In Germany, a student movement driven by Rudi Dutschke reached a fever pitch. The optimistic “Prague Spring” provided fuel for the Soviet invasion later in the year. Two extraordinary champions for change, Martin Luther King and Senator Robert F Kennedy, were both brutally assassinated. The Mexico Olympics provided a big moment for 1968 with Tommie Smith and John Carlos’ black-gloved fists at the ceremonies. ‘Barbarella’ caused a stir in the cinema. HAL the beginning of the computer age in Kubrick’s ‘2001’ and Charlton Heston’s dramatic performance in ‘Planet of the Apes’ were also signs of change. Aretha Franklin hit the scene with ‘Think’. Mary Hopkins iconic hit ‘Those Were the Days’ dominated the airwaves across the world, and the anthemic ‘Born to be Wild’ by Steppenwolf and Arthur Brown’s ‘Fire’ a backdrop to the times. A search for meaning in space developed with the first full picture of the Earth coming back from Apollo 8. The world was changing. The space-age was arriving and the dawn of a new era was upon us. Watch 'Robert F. Kennedy - America's Lost President' here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIubd3qelseUnNU #history #freedocumentary

[@SweetChicagoGator]

Barbarella, Computer Hal, & Planet of the Apes all in the same paragraph !! Wow ! Are you Kiddin?! 🤪🙄

[@panismith1544]

Interesting 👍🇺🇲💀

[@SweetChicagoGator]

@@panismith1544 What parts did you find interesting about 1968? I truly Love1969 with fab Woodstock & our exciting step-by-step TV moon landing !! 💓😃

[@Quanvietdung1]

I am Vietnamese In 1968, my country Vietnam was ravaged by war. But today, Vietnam is the most peaceful country in the world, the most developed economy in the world. Vietnamese people welcome all international friends ^^

[@tundrawomansays5067]

Fifty Four years later...Where’d the time go. And the music, where did that go? Vietnam directed my life for the rest of my working life. I miss the vets.

[@davidbrother2200]

I lived through 1968, turning 15 in November. To this day, I'm still shaking my head in astonished disbelief at the events I witnessed on my black and white TV. We never missed one episode of Laugh In.

[@beckyparker1532]

I was 14, the War was on every night a dinner time with daily body counts.

[@tbone9603]

This was an embarrassing time for Americans, especially the way they treated the Vietnam Veterans when they came home!

[@seangrexa4707]

Goldie Hawn!

[@benjaminrush4443]

@@tbone9603 Disgrace. US Government, the News Media and 'General Public' helped to destroy the Best Standing Army (Navy, Marines, Air Force & Coast Guard) in the world. Soviet Union was the Enemy - Communism.

[@benjaminrush4443]

@@beckyparker1532 I was 16.

[@edwardlagrossa1246]

I got to shake Robert Kennedy's hand when he spoke at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in early June of 1968. I was 12 years old. I'll never forget how everyone was so excited around him. He was loved him so much. It was the last time I ever saw hope in America. Two weeks later he was dead.

[@lemurianchick]

All done by design. Mass trauma = mind control.

[@MatthewBaumgarten]

The security guard killed him not sirhan

[@derekroberts6654]

@@MatthewBaumgarten ok then Oswald wasn’t the only shooter of JFK either?

[@doberman1ism]

What an honor. What a wonderful memory.

[@brettsfav4]

@@derekroberts6654 No

[@thecofieldcollection3792]

I was 10 years old and even I knew it was a wild year. But I was living a wonderful childhood and 1968's troubles were something that we checked on TV before dinner, then went back to the fun of growing up in Oxford, Mississippi.

[@remarkableshailesh]

I guessed that was just before all the worlds troubles were brought to our living rooms by the TV

[@kiwitrainguy]

I was the same age then and to a child things like that are really only experienced on TV so there is a certain disconnect from the reality of it all.

[@jayhendricks67]

I remember when Martin was killed it came on the news around 6 o'clock .and i was living in Washington DC. We had so much going on in one year I was 5 years old and I can remember 68 even at that age I was in elementary learning how to write Cursive And we had to Start off by putting the Date at the top of our Paper I loved writing 68 on top of my paper because my 8's looked so good 😂😂 when 70's came I was sad that the 60's were leaving 😅 It was wonderful growing up in those days Lord please help the children of today

[@kimdurig1322]

I was thirteen in 1968 it was chaotic yet energized there was electricity in air and hope for change , what a time to be alive .

[@wilfordfraser6347]

Just when I was giving up on finding anything of any quality on youtube..Thank you for posting.

[@wesbittick4567]

I agree .

[@morenofranco9235]

Five years after all of this, while I was in high school. I was in a war in '72. I was a gunship Flight Lieutenant in '73, doing a Soldier's job. Oh the memories. A nightmare set to music. Love MLK. And Stevie Wonder and Jimi!

[@SweetChicagoGator]

Thx for your service in Vietnam !!

[@1williamallen]

I was 18 and Graduated High School in 1968. Damn what a ride.

[@blawom]

Veronica 1968 Grad.

[@babybutchie]

Same here.

[@marcjohnson4385]

I was in the Marine Corps in 68 my memories are a bit different.

[@nilsanarvaez7947]

Great documentary! 👏👏👏👏 I was 14 years old in 1968. The 60’s and very early 70’s were the best for me! Sixty’s music rocks!

[@KnockOffBeingFat]

Always tell older people today just how very lucky they are!!

[@obwhankanobee1923]

Someone once said that 1968 was the year that Americans lived through more history than they could possibly ever handle.......

[@perspellman]

The 1960's was like that all along, but 1968 displayed so many of the warnings. But still many can't handle it, but just continue to live in an illusory bubble.

[@obwhankanobee1923]

@@perspellman 1968 .....was the year that Americans lived through more history than they could handle.....................I forget who said that......

[@obwhankanobee1923]

@@perspellman I think 1962 and 63 were the warnings..... 68, all hell broke loose.....and then some.....

[@nysaxman]

I can't imagine any decade in American history being more historic than the 1960s.

[@nysaxman]

@@siegfriedsassoon5071 The Civil War and President Lincoln's assassination. I include slavery as a part of the Civil War. If you don't agree, then that's three things. What else?

[@MISSPICKLES1967]

How about the Roaring 20's

[@nysaxman]

@@MISSPICKLES1967 prohibition; rise of organized crime; beginning of jazz; Crash of '29. For me that would be a strong second. I just feel that so much was happening in America in the 1960s culturally, musically, socially, artistically, landing on the moon and politically. Other decades may have two or three major events. The 1960s was filled with them.

[@keelsmac01]

Although I agree with you. I can’t help but feel every generation has had their 60s. How about the revolutionary war?battle of Trenton December 26 1776. The signing of the constitution? A great nation is born. Lincoln running on ending slavery, the civil war and his eventual assassination. Those are the times that matter. Along with the 60s. Have a great day 😀

[@julieerin115]

True, but it seems like the 2020s are going to be revolutionary as well.

[@CoffeeNerd2]

Excellent documentary, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@Quanvietdung1]

I am Vietnamese In 1968, my country Vietnam was ravaged by war. But today, Vietnam is the most peaceful country in the world, the most developed economy in the world. Vietnamese people welcome all international friends

[@sonnytopboy4975]

You have a wonderful country and thank you for your comment from England.

[@Quanvietdung1]

@@sonnytopboy4975 Thank you, England is great too. The British Empire is the greatest empire in human history.

[@mackenziedog1872]

The world 🌎has the tet offensive to thank

[@tylerbozinovski427]

Vietnam still has poverty, is still ruled by an oppressive communist regime, and it still has a sizable amount of illegal activity. So literally the exact opposite of what you claimed.

[@joshuacondell1686]

@@Quanvietdung1 please don't. Just don't.

[@robertfrederick8590]

I was there on the front lines in '68. In Chicago. In the South of the US. The music said a lot about what we were doing. "Red Rudi" in Germany and all the brave students in Paris were heroes. Young people today have forgotten. Such a shame. WE NEEDTO MAKE A LASTING MARK ON WHO WE WERE/ARE. I LOVE HUMANITY

[@mikebane2866]

Old people don’t pay attention to what young people are doing, and if they are then they’re basically the Nixon’s and Goldwater’s of your generation.

[@sarahparkes1547]

I was 16 living on a farm in rural Ontario watching the news daily with my father this is when I grew up.

[@KrisCorby-iv8dg]

Must have seemed like a different world!..✌

[@andromeda331]

Great documentary, with great music.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience" - Howard Zinn

[@SweetChicagoGator]

Obedience to what generalization are you referring to?!

[@SweetChicagoGator]

@@pattyb5711 disgraceful racism !! 😡

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

This is the best comment on here. Its late November 2021 and I see exactly what you mean happening in America. People behaving like lemmings and just going along with whatever the government tells them to do. It’s supposed to be us telling the government what to do. That was what the founding fathers envisioned when the wrote the constitution and especially the bill of rights. We elect people to run government the way we want it to run. Government isn’t supposed to be some tyrannical overlord ruling with an iron fist. It’s supposed to function with the least number of people and regulations possible and provide common defense of our rights as citizens. Government is not supposed to effect social morays on the population. We need to fight for a return to what our society should be. Limited government is the only way we can live our lives as we choose and pursue life liberty and happiness. Right now I believe we are on the verge of becoming slaves to an all powerful tyrannical government and must resist at all costs. I am in my 50’s and have lived a good life so I have no qualms about sacrificing my life so that my children and grandchildren can be free. Each generation must be taught what previous generations have done to remain free. It only takes 1-2 generations to fundamentally change a nation. Our young people are at risk of being separated from their history and what real freedom is like.

[@SweetChicagoGator]

NONE of the above, except genocide. War, slavery, monarchy, are economics...not obedience.

[@SweetChicagoGator]

@@prepperjonpnw6482 NONE of the above, except genocide. War, slavery, monarchy, are economics...not obedience !

[@tbone9603]

It wasn’t great in 1968, a lot of young men lost their lives in the Vietnam War and the ones that came home from war got ignored and no help for these young men!!! Such a sad time in American History! Even this video ignores the Vietnam War!!!!

[@KrisCorby-iv8dg]

You can't cover everything, & besides, you can find a ton of Vietnam vids here if you look! Take a look man!...

[@ronniesutton1652]

I was 15 in 68,and I went and got a black panther tattoo on my forearm!m white irish.I was a hippy. Great days.

[@joekabotz734]

I was fourteen living on my own and joined the White Panther Party, who was a Radical Hippie group from Ann Arbor Michigan and joined political views with the Black Panther Party.

[@joekabotz734]

I curious how your tat look today 🤔

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

were you in the RA?

[@harperwelch5147]

It was indeed. I was 18 that year. Visiting family friends in Pasadena that summer and the world seemed to be falling apart. MLK gets shot. Then just a few miles away from where I was staying, RFK was killed at The Ambassador Hotel. Within a day or two there were men knocking on the door of my friend’s parent’s house. It was the FBI. Because my friend’s father happened to have been the eye surgeon who had at some point, treated Sirhan Sirhan, RFK’s accused killer

[@juanleahy2202]

I am a UK citizen, but the same age as you, In December of that year, I first heard the Simon & Garfunkel version of ‘Silent Night’ with a 7.00pm US news broadcast in the background (culminating with a report of an anti Vietnam war demonstration). It was for me a quite moving edition of the Xmas carol & it is still with me to this day, as indeed are those many many important events of 1968! Thankyou for your comment.

[@Mr--_--M]

I wasn’t even born yet but this little piece of history was great to watch!!

[@rickd6880]

Thank you for this documentary. It brought back such memories, I cried at times, I’m grateful for having lived through these times…Thank you

[@LisaRichards_123]

Why is it that these documentaries always find someone that wasn’t born yet to tell me about what my life was like in the 1960s?

[@MatthewBaumgarten]

Lol, that's funny I was born in April of 68 and just interested in what was going on the year I was born

[@Picasso_305]

I was born 1951 and lived through it in high school

[@edcpike]

I was born in 57 and still remember everything

[@cindychurch335]

I was born in December 1956 and remember bits and pieces but felt far removed from it. I was interested in Laugh In and The Monkees in tv.

[@ericthorfinnson2074]

Mixing music with history PERFECTION

[@DEeMONsworld]

I lived through it, it was like this but not like this, watching someone else's interpretation in a short documentary doesn't do it justice. You had to have been there.

[@wmpopper]

...don't bogart that Jay...

[@johnjaco5544]

I was there and I'll never forget it

[@normannoury4934]

Was just a teenager back then. Loved listening to Dylan, Jimi. Nobody of my age felt that the war was necessary.

[@racer193wr]

Love to see this stuff on you tube.. in Canada we seem very happy to just erase the parts of history that are not agreeable with today's dull sensibilities. We may be doomed to a repeat performance if we don't learn from it instead of wiping it from the collective memory.

[@satadruray9787]

Canada is not the only country which is doing it. Even here, in my country, the same thing is being done.

[@jennifer_m.8613]

USA is doing it, too. They call it "cancel culture."

[@Mrbfgray]

Looks like Trudeau will give you the equivalent of the CCP that he's so enamored and envious of.

[@mhthmusicvideos]

We got our first color telly in 1968, the first program we watched on it was The Undersea World of Jaques Cousteau. Wonderful times.

[@panismith1544]

My Year!!! 1968. Died twice but still here 🤟🇳🇿 What a tamuchuase Year.

[@SIMKINETICS]

1968 was momentous for me! Just weeks after the Tet Offensive, both my student deferment and my Defense Industry Employee deferment were canceled. I was inducted in June through the infamous Oakland Induction Center amid throngs of protestors; eight of my fellow inductees left the bus there & fled to parts unknown, tempting me to join them. I was scared! 1968 was a year of terror. I ended up being one of very few adolescents then lucky enough to avoid that horrible war by becoming an oral surgery tech in Germany. I lived with my new wife in a rural town, working with mostly civilians and almost completely missing any military experiences. The town where I worked is in the German Fairy Tale Route of small towns. My brotherhood of friends were almost all medics too, all hippies who discovered how to serve without bearing arms; healers, not killers. And, of course, we all continued being hippies, just like back home in San Jose! Yet, I'll always remember those I knew who never came back.

[@upwk7]

Flower Power 1968 is death.. those so called liberals have become what they foought against.. a intolerant elite.

[@tundrawomansays694]

Lemme guess: Those who died in the dental chair while being drilled and filled…….

[@john1606ful]

Unfortunately i''ts all been downhill since then

[@notthatdonald1385]

I was 13 in '68. My WW-2 vet father was already telling me if I got a draft notice join a military band (I was a trumpet player.) He never gave me any of his reasons. He had PTSD when it was called "shell shocked". We watched 'Hawaii 5-0 together. Also somewhere around that time 'Mannix' was on TV too. Instead of "book 'em Dano" Mannix said "you'll get my bill".

[@SweetChicagoGator]

12 & 13 years, me also, in 1968. Love the advice your dad gave you to join the orchestra upon draft ! A clever way of avoiding the front lines !! 🤣

[@stevenorcott354]

Ha Ha Ha!!

[@sandy3482]

I was 18 and we were great in 68. the young generation took over, it was a year like no other!

[@Exotic3000]

Excuse me Miss Kate Williams. Big mistake at 19:14. Bobby did win California on June 5, 1968. However, he did not have enough pledged delegates to secure the Democratic Party nomination. He entered the race too late.

[@josephlloyd9636]

I was born in 68. It's been incredible to see the changes in the world. Kids today don't know what an era is. 💕🥴

[@wesbittick4567]

I turned 16 on April 3rd I remember his speech and how he died the next day . For me the year was my best time as a kid . There were three of my closest friends and we did everything together .

[@elizabethbarringer2791]

Thank you for sharing a very cool video I was 8 years old in 68 I remember everything that you showed a quick time travel trip thank you

[@resurrectedwreck]

1968 is the year I was born.

[@michaellazzeri9439]

I was 21 & 22 y/o, in '68 ; because I had a history of gastric ulcers, I was unable to enlist in the military, thus-----I was in college [ I did it in 6 years , working my way through ] , involved in the anti-war movement, & the Kennedy campaign for POTUS. ---- '68 was a time in our nation, so full of ferment,. protest, riots, murders, music, & for me, a year unlike any I have ever seen since. I wouldn't have missed it, for anything. In April, Robert Kennedy came to Denver, & I & 3 friends, somehow made it into the old coliseum, where a record crowd of over 15,500 cheered wildly, as he spoke. That's a moment I'll treasure, to my final breath. -----------------------MJL, 75 y/o

[@SweetChicagoGator]

Sorry to hear about your gastric ulcers, a terrible condition. I had a girlfriend who has that. Coincidentally she found me after 37 years through the internet and I live in Chicago and resided in California at the time. Very nice memories & of the altruistic & compassionate Kennedys & MLK. I had their photographs right next to my 1st communion foto when I was a kid. 😍 TFS, Mr. Lazzeri !!

[@sharoncrawford7192]

My brother in law graduated in 71. He was about to get drafted to go to Viet Nam. So he joined the Air Force for 4 yrs. My sister wrote him a dear John letter while he was in Texas doing his basic training. He got a pass and came all the way back to Ohio. He talked her into marrying her and she was only 1 month from turning 18. They are still together, but haven't had a very good marriage.

[@spideywhiplash]

No matter where I am or what I am doing, when I hear the 'I heard it through the grapevine' song my hips start to move to the beat.🎶🍇

[@susanlacroix3069]

14 in November. Knew every Beatle's song lyrics due to my sitter. All popular songs hit my emotions.

[@keiththorpe9571]

1968's election of Richard Nixon to the presidency is emblematic of the fact that Americans rarely want true change in society. What they want is for someone to make the uncomfortable things comfortable again. They want a return to a complacent status quo in which they don't have to ask themselves hard questions or face disquieting answers.

[@naomivillalobos8031]

I was 16 and the sky in 1968 was beautiful , no chemtrails just Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

[@williamhiles7404]

And Laughing Sam's Dice. Delysid. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

[@jetdude787]

Good memories from times gone… thank you.

[@timrobinson7373]

I was just starting to see the world at age 6 all the events good and bad and the great music of that year

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

2001: A Space Odyssey was NOT "Stanley Kubrick's version of Arthur C. Clarke's novella" ( 12:20 ). Clarke's novella was the novelization of the movie which had, as part of its source material, a short story by Clarke named "The Sentinel". Clarke's novelization, released after the film's premiere, was written in part concurrently with the screenplay.

[@nathancoleman7235]

this seemed to be a fast moving doc probably because 1968 was such a tumultuous year.

[@stevep4574]

Everybody talks about 1969, but I think 1968 runs circles around 69 with everything that happened, especially the music.

[@romanclay1913]

In 1968, I graduated from John Muir High School. Sirhan Sirhan was an alumnus of my high school. Two weeks after RFK died, we had our graduation ball at the Ambassador Hotel where the assassination occurred.

[@lesbatty84]

A lot of stuff on here has been disproved,enjoyed the walk down memory lane

[@pauldavies5611]

Shouldn’t the White Album have been mentioned?

[@jomama5186]

The year America's heart was broke and future was lost for the generations that followed. The wolves took over :(

[@mljones655]

The year of the end of innocence.

[@jomama5186]

@@mljones655 that might have been when Kennedy was killed. Maybe they do this every couple of decades?

[@mljones655]

@@jomama5186 In 1968, RFK & MLK were assassinated. JFK was assassinated in 1963. A big part of 1968 was the Vietnam War & the Tet Offensive when so many of our young men were killed & so many atrocities occurred in Vietnam. I was only 13 in 68. One thing I remember quite clearly was the assassination of RFK. It happened on the West Coast & I lived on the East Coast. My Dad was a truck driver & awoke around 4 am each day. I heard the report on the radio that morning & fell back to sleep. When I finally awoke, I thought it had all been a bad dream, maybe a leftover shock from the assassination of JFK when I was only 8. The RFK thing was like sticking a burnt hand in hot water - very painful & a reviving of the original pain. Even though I feel innocence died in 1968, the young ppl tried to keep it alive. Woodstock was in 1969. Young ppl started marching in earnest against the Vietnam War. I think this is why the movie Forest Gump touched so many ppl's hearts. It showed the progression of events that happened in the 60s & 70s. For those of us who lived thru that Era, it was a mixed bag. The music was awesome. But the war & assassinations & the threat of nuclear war, etc. traumatized us all, especially school children.

[@M123Xoxo]

The Boomers took over and plundered everything for themselves.

[@stevekov6740]

@@mljones655 I love America but it has never been innocent nor has anywhere else on Earth been innocent. America did however lose it's innocent look (it's front) in 1963 and burned the remains of it in 1968. Then in 2020 it defecated on the site of it's memorial.

[@garfreed]

I was 14 years old. Watershed year for America. Watershed year for me.

[@mixelplixsuperfriendsstyle7609]

born this year

[@jasenwright1178]

Vietnam War--first ever war shown the 'day it happened' on TV in America and some other parts of the English speaking world! It shocked many viewers as to how the 'Invincible US Military' err, well --just were not! I cannot believe it went on so long! I was working in Singapore in 73 and I saw many US Forces personnel on R&R in Bangkok! The Horror was still with them!

[@williamhiles7404]

Yep, 1968. What a time. Not only Born to be Wild, and Fire, but Led Zeppelin was recording the LP Led Zeppelin, which would debut 1-12-69. And it was the true beginning to America's long fall, which has led us to where we are now. Edit : We all had transistor radios, and I always had a box of 9V batteries for it. A radio was put in my room at age 5 and I could work it and as soon as transistor radios came out my pops brought me home one. TV went in my room at 7, allowed to watch whatever was on. Pops worked in the 'industry' so we always had all that. Stereo in my room at 12. Man it was great then. Still listen to at least 12 hours of music a day. As far as everything else in the '60s '70s I remember all of it, the bands on TV, the riots, assassinations, '68 Democratic Convention chaos, the Berkeley unrest, Moon launches, you name, I saw it all and remember. So thankful I was blessed with an idetic memory. In other words, we had the best time. Sorry, but true. Jimi Hendrix's version of 'All Along the Watchtower' was awesome. And that opening chord on the 12 string guitar was played by Dave Mason. And Barbarella Ruled. Saw that at the drive-in movie when it came out. Just saw Peter Green of the original Fleetwood Mac with his Les Paul that has become known as the 'Greeny Les Paul' guitar that was famously bought by Krk Hammett of Metallica. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

[@cathybassett6432]

Excellent video - Thanks!

[@JackieT14]

Excellent documentary with amazing music!

[@ditto1958]

Although I was only 10 years old, I lived through that year and was aware enough to know that things were not normal In retrospect, I have come to rue that year It was the year of The Shattering The world I had come to know my first 10 years, a world I felt comfortable in, was torn up, thrown away, and after that I felt like no one knew how to act any more We tried to fix an awful lot of stuff that wasn’t broke

[@douglassauvageau7262]

A well done presentation of a pivotal year.

[@colinwilliams553]

The year I was born.. NOVEMBER 15th of that year.... yesterday, I just turned 53.

[@NovemberReigne]

Happy Birthday Fellow Scorpio! 🎊🎁 I was born one day before you.

[@deanchapman1824]

Was only 6. I remember the King and RFK assassinations, Vietnam on TV, and the music, but wasn't aware of the uprising that was going on.

[@goingfurther8092]

Guy in the thumbnail hittin that whip real hard.

[@bobthebarber777]

And the year that I was born...

[@deanchapman1824]

At about 39 minutes, the original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green!!! Most people think they were just with Nicks and Buckingham.

[@carlgreisheimer8701]

16:46 OMG...THAT VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE IS ON FIRE!!

[@jlshoem]

I was 18 in 1968. I will never forget.

[@maha77]

I was born in 68 so I have no memory of these events and honestly I'm shocked to learn what a tumultuous year was

[@fidomusic]

Interesting, but a major omission is the culturally iconic tv series The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan.

[@davidhart2788]

I can't remember who said, "If you remember the 60's you weren't there" I only vaguely remember "Blue Cheer, Orange Wedge, and Purple Qwlsley" Far out man!

[@rogerknights857]

1968 was the year pantyhose sales took off, two years after the miniskirt took over, which was when they were really needed. (Government statistics document the sales spike. Sales of girdles (and garter belts and stockings) went into a steep decline as a result; within ten years 90% of the brands were gone.)

[@michaelhaskins3038]

The 60s were Fantastic !They were the last Breath of American Freedom, Those who were not born or lived then , WILL NEVER KNOW..

[@thenorthstars2210]

I miss 68.

[@stephenwright8824]

I am both proud and ashamed to have been born on September 18, 1968. Nixon and defeat were both inevitabilities the day I was born, and I was way too young to recognise either as threats to the national morale, esteem and image until well after they had happened. RIP RFK. RIP MLK.

[@jeremiahb3519]

Thank you algorithm

[@jnagarya519]

I began speaking against US involvement in 1965 while still in high school.

[@peddlerofknives5364]

Music had a powerful influence as did drugs. I was 15 in 68, and in May of that year my stepfather had given me the boot and I was on my own. I moved to another state. It was great and yes without any parental authority, I finished high school. I worked after school and on weekends. I was renting a room for 12 dollars a week. It was tricky enrolling in another high school, there was a bit of forgery involved. Renting a room from some hippies was easy. I looked young for my age, but the hippies didn't seem to care. The awakening of consciousness was happening on a collective level and the Govt. just had to put an end to it. As the CIA once said Acid was opening doors in the mind that could never be shut...Then came Woodstock....

[@M123Xoxo]

You paid $12 a week to rent a room which would be $28 in today's dollars. Young people today have it so much worse off it's almost unbelievable. Nowhere in the country could a person rent a room in a house for only $112/month today. I hope your generation realizes that while you may have struggled, things are so much harder for young people today. It seems like your generation instead smugly gloats while ridiculing young people for not being able to afford to live. But we're only in this situation because you all pulled the ladder up behind you and kicked us down.

[@bobyoung1698]

This was a time when many Americans had the guts to stand up for what was right. Civil rights, an end to senseless wars, pollution, growing recognition of different types of sexual orientation - the nation took them all on, in Congress and on the streets, and made significant progress. We need to be their again.

[@davechristensen2482]

This time around, I'd like to see us "progress", towards freedom.

[@ArgoLupus]

Every documentary about the 60s focuses on the Black Power gestures at the Olympics, but ignores the fact the Mexican government murdered thousands of students for protesting the tax money being wasted on the sporting spectacle. A documentary about a revolutionary period of history might aspire to do more than rehash the historical "greatest hits" that most casual followers of American history have seen over and over.

[@stephenpowstinger733]

I missed 1968. In January they sent me overseas to Vietnam. Today’s young don’t know what it’s like to live under a draft system.

[@KrisCorby-iv8dg]

Huh! There's a lot they don't know!..🙄😒

[@docdurdin]

1967 was the warning sign that the world had changed forever, it would never be the same. We had been creeping in that direction since they murdered our President in 63. Every culture struggled to find balance and direction. It was the year I became a man and wondered what my future would be. How many more would die?

[@catallaxy]

The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.

[@ninamc6116]

I barely remember 68, I was 3 years old. But I know all of this stuff from my older brothers. My oldest brother was a teenager in 68. I do somehow remember Laugh In

[@matabeleman]

best time of my life...

[@SweetChicagoGator]

I agree ! Wonderful times and the best music. 🙂🤗 Not stinky rap !! 😡🥶

[@neroneconviva7294]

Born new York City 1962 March 1 moved to Miami 72

[@warmonger8799]

Perfection ❤❤❤

[@dhoward5757]

Such a devastating time, it could have crushed us. Seems like old times nowadays, yet this go around the young warriors are woke victims. We stood tall with conscious integrity. Our feelings did not matter, the truth mattered.

[@latoshawhite8495]

In 1968 in that year we had the Vietnam War and protest and two tragic events which was martin and bobby being both killed for what they believed in was civil rights for blacks and whites and they had the best music and movies and TV shows in the 60s

[@SweetChicagoGator]

WRONG SONG ending to a hodgepodge of 1968. 🙄 Not everyone has Love. Many of us are widowers or Life Loners !

[@davidatkins2490]

Seems very weird that we have 3 British commentators repeatedly talking about something that they have only read about. I'm surprised that more of the commentary didn't come from Americans....who LIVED it!

[@tundrawomansays5067]

Yeah, I really don’t care what the British think of ‘68 in the US.

[@doberman1ism]

I was 16 years old.

[@marjoryrainey73]

I enjoyed 1968 I was 11 and in June I was 12 yrs old. It was a great time to be 11 and 12.

[@robertzaborowski4656]

All the Living Dead rose up in Evans City.....right down the road......I remember well. My father and me would watch Chiller Theater on Saturday night,Hosted by Bill Cardil , who placed the t.v. reporter in the living dead movie.

[@Julie44Inlouisiana]

I was born in February of 1968. Cool to see what was happening.

[@markross2124]

I was 13 that year and couldn't believe what took place that year. Seems everyone who stood for peace and unity in the turbulent 60s JFK, RFK, ML King was shot in public, coincidence, I don't think so.

[@dennisanderson1540]

I was 13 I remember giving the peace sign to every car that drove by as I walked to the store and back....

[@davehales2249]

What a documentary, I'm sure I have looked at it before, but hands up, this time I really got it, I was born in 67s, but for some reason,1968 just resonates with me,l love African American influenced music, and this soundtrack is super,it also explains when, soul, meets rock and creates funk, and it feels like this documentary is the star WARS trilogy,all in one,but we are still waiting for the last movie, and being released from tyranny,we are this documentaries legacy

[@jamesdouglas1065]

I was born in July 1968 from that day to this day my country has always been at war. The world is less safe now then it was then! In my life time the weather has changed for the worst and the value of life itself has changed for the worst! Hate between men has not lessened but increased as have the weapons of war! In my life time the peace makers were all murdered. If I were to live another fifty plus years nothing would change for the better things would only get worse! The world is a sinking ship and we today have a front row seat to the end of the world as we have known it. We had a chance to make the world a better place in the last fifty years but the powers that be wouldn't allow it! Those who have destroyed the world will themselves be destroyed! 🌎

[@geekay1349]

I was in London in 1968 and the protests were epic as angry mobs sought to overtake the American Embassy. We watched it all through a window, dining on a Wimpy's cheese hamburer with chips as they say in Britain.

[@fidomusic]

I was one of the "angry mobs" you were looking at.

[@petegobeckli1386]

Gee Kay. Man. Y'all had WIMPY'S 🍔 hamburgers in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿ENGLAND? I know u said it, but I figured wimpys was just here in the 🇺🇸 USA: " I'll have uh 🍔 hamburger, for I will gladly pay you TUESDAY"!