1968: The Last Great Hope or Near World Revolution?

January 30 -- Tet Offensive begins March 12 - Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire Democratic Primary March 16 - My Lai Massacre March 31 -- President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not run for another term April 4 - Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis April 22 -- Columbia takeover led by SDS begins April 26 - Spring Mobilization against the War May 3 - Paris "Days of the Barricades" begin May 13 - Poor People's March on Washington ("Resurrection City") June 3 - Andy Warhol shot by Victoria Solanis June 5 - Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles July 14 - Dr. Spock convicted of conspiring to counsel draft resistance August 20 - Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia August 26-29 - Battle of Chicago at the Democratic Convention October 2 - 700 students massacred by police in Mexico City October 16 -- U.S. Black athletes protest U.S. racism at the Mexico City Olympics November 5 - Nixon narrowly defeats Humphrey for U.S. Presidency November 6 - San Francisco State strike begins December 21-27 - Apollo 8 circles the moon

Other Useful Links 1968: An Online Magazine 1968 Calendar (PBS) The Sixties Project