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1968
It was a year of turmoil in the United States and around the world. A shocking series of attacks in Vietnam cast new doubts about the war. A demoralized President Lyndon B. Johnson decided against seeking re-election.
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was struck down by an assassin's bullet. As the nation mourned, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was killed while campaigning for president.
Protesters marched for peace and for equal rights for African Americans and women. Soviet tanks crushed a freedom movement in Czechoslovakia. At the end, a glorious image from U.S. astronauts in space offered hope for a divided planet. |