1968:
The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed that nation’s liberal regime.
In the US the opposition of the Vietnam war began to mound and gain respectability, but the proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel" was still a number of years off.
Peace talks had just begun in Paris and president Johnson curbed the bombing of north Vietnam.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, rev. William Sloan coffin jr, and Michael Ferber were convicted for counseling and aiding draft evasion
while US soldiers lined up 500 men, women, and children in a ditch in My Lai and shot them