Existing comment:
1968
* Previously secure South Vietnamese cities like Sài Gòn are attacked during the TếtOffensive[fig.]
* Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis. Massive civil unrest follows in Washington, D.C., and other American cities[fig.]
* President Johnson announces he will not seek reelection
* Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated on the campaign trail
* Peace talks begin--and immediately stall--in Paris
* Police violence erupts at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago[fig.]
* Richard M. Nixon is elected President[fig.]
* U.S. troop levels in Vietnam at the end of 1968: 536,100 |