1968 Headline News

Vietnam intensifies as the U.S. sends 500,000 troops, weathers the Tet Offensive, and commits the My Lai massacre.
The French government is threatened by student-worker revolts.
The Democratic National Convention is interrupted by peace protesters.
Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. are both assassinated.
Communist forces invade Czechoslovakia.

Nixon is elected president of the U.S.


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