1968 (Part 5 of 6)

1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation
War. Assassinations. Riots. This dramatic program examines the turbulent political and social landscapes of 1968 by combining dramatic archival footage and interviews with many key participants, including Walter Cronkite, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Tom Hayden, Barbara Ehrenreich, Carlos Fuentes, and Pat Buchanan. Individual sections spotlight topics such as Vietnam, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, student revolts, the counter-culture, the Democratic National Convention, the Prague Spring, the Mexico City student massacre, and the '68 presidential campaign and election.
Release Year: 1998
Run Time: 57 minutes
Release Year: 1998
Run Time: 57 minutes

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Civil
• Rights
• Movement
• Presidential
• campaign
• Martin
• Luther
• King
• Kennedy
• Riots
• situationalist
• international

[radio187]

The same piss and vinegar that drove so many cretins to support Vietnam is what drove the "On to Baghdad" crowd. Funny thing about war is that it tends to relieve the toughguys of their youthful anger. Always a tough lesson, but the fools who slept through history class are doomed to suffer from what they don't understand.

[maxime32]

True, real life later separated those who really care about social justice and peace from those who just hate all authority and want to do what *they* feel like.

[macdogq]

The Democrat party was just falling apart when the liberals took over the party, and conservatives left the democratic party. Democrat party has become divided between the conservative dimocrats, and newly arrival liberals who seeks to take over the democratic party. Liberals successfully taken over the democratic party.

[diggiemac]

The worst thing is Richard Daley's actions and the actions of the lead protesters (Hayden, Hoffman etc) probably turned the vote and put in someone who was so much more dangerous than the right winged Democrats. I'm curious how they all view their actions now

[Sistarovat]

If I were a policeman there, I would have busted every dadgum hippie I could get my stick on. The only good hippie is a bleeding hippie.

[sidwerd1hater]

A.I.D.S. has nothing to do with the hippies and even if it were, the A.I.D.S. would've spread because there were no known records of the disease until a year later, and even then it was so low that it passed the disease radar and went undetected until 15 years later. As for the shooting up schools, the worst school massacre was in Austin in 1966, two years before the hippies.

[celticlofts]

Spiro Angnew and Richard Nixon standing on a platform of law and order ? .. Angew had to resign his office of vice President... a little matter of tax evasion. Of course Nixon didn't fair much better, he became the first President of the United States to resign.

[queerfish1]

Fucking pigs. The pigs today still have that mentality. Nothing has changed.

And stupid ugly ass Pat Buchanan has to put his stupid comments in.

[Claronium780]

The Senator was right ! Mayor Daly should've been shot !

[StunnaShades09]

Fuck Nixon.

[pucksterz12]

The Nixon administration will always be known as the biggest disrace in American history - can't belive that guy was ever in a position of "leadership".

[JohananRaatz]

About the hippie rioters:

"An evil man is bent only on rebellion; a merciless official will be sent against him."

~Proverbs 17:11