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1968 was a watershed year in the West. It heralded both political revolution and one 

could argue a 'Rock' revolution. In 1968, the US position in Vietnam was collapsing and

it began to retreat from Asia. America was torn by social upheaval and international 

condemnation as, to a lesser extent, so was Australia. Western political and social 

culture was being challenged by the growth of a radical youth counterculture spurred

on by, and reflected in, Popular Music at the time - and the emergence of the `Hippie’ 

movement. It was the time of Psychedelic Rock and the music many claim introduced it

all - or was symbolic of it, was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. 

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The Beatles - Sgt Peppers
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles


The Tumultuous Year Of 1968 - What  Happened?

OK, now let us turn for awhile back to 1968, the year many regard as a watershed year

in World Politics in the 20th century. From this year there flowed the decline of the US

War effort - or the collapse of its position in Vietnam, the decline of the West

economically, and the growth of enormous disillusionment socially in the West - a lot

of which was triggered by two failings: the failing of Western traditional culture and the

beginnings of the decline and ultimate failure of the hopes and dreams of the

Counterculture.

So What Was Significant About This Year?

It was the year Saddam Hussein took control in Iraq (and also the formation of the

ultra leftist urban guerrilla group - the Baader Meinhof group in Germany), and  the 

year General Suharto took full power in Indonesia after  deposing President Sukarno. 

An event which changed  the destiny of Indonesia and still indirectly impacts on 

Indonesia and its allies.


It was also the year French students and workers revolted in the streets in a revolution

that shook the French Government and took President De Gaulle some time to put 

down, but not without first granting the students and workers significant reforms. It was

a revolt nevertheless that shocked the West. The world watched  anxiously as the threat

of France falling to communism seemed to grow each day and foreign student radicals 

arrived to man the barricades.  Such revolt had not been seen in Western cities for a 

long time.    



It was also the year of the 'Prague Spring' in Czechoslovakia - when the Soviets crushed

the Czech government's reform movement with tanks, signalling to the world that 

communism could change and the Soviet Empire was beginning to crumble from 

within. This was an extremely important event and forerunner of possible things to 

come as the days when the Soviet Union could crush rebellion largely unseen by its 

own citizens, as what had occurred in Hungary in 1956, were over. The entire world

was now watching, and detested what it saw. 
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And 1968 was also the year that people 

worldwide were listening to the Beatles’ 


Hey Jude and viewing their 'Yellow 

Submarine' movie.



Tiny Tim 

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Other music hits in that

year included such

niceties as Cinderella

Rockerfella, Wonderful

World and the bizarre

Tip-Toe Through The Tulips' With Me

from Tiny Tim.


The Beatles - Hey Jude
Tiny Tim - Tip Toe Through The Tulips

_But The Music Didn’t Stop The Rioting In The West, Or In The US Specifically.

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1968 was also the year of the Chicago Democratic Party

Convention, the Vietnam anti-war demonstrations and the

'Chicago Conspiracy trials' which resulted from it. This 

was the convention wherein Mayor Richard Daley sent in the 

police to batter the protesters into submission.


Political Activist Jerry Rubin who helped found the Youth International Party (The

Yippies) and campaigned for their candidate, a pig named Pigasus, gained his 15

minutes of fame from the convention when he and six others were tried on charges of 

conspiracy to incite violence and crossing state lines with intent to riot. They were 

acquitted, eventually, after a mockery of a trial.


A Year of Assassinations

1968 was also the year, two prominent Americans were assassinated - Senator Robert 

Kennedy and Human Rights Activist Dr Martin Luther King. These killings - in the 

middle of the UN Human Rights Year - symbolised the death of hope for many 

American liberals, particularly young people who put their faith in the ability of 

activists,  such as King and Kennedy, to right a society considered to have gone badly

wrong.



1968 Also Saw The Beginning Of The End For The Counterculture


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1968 was the year many argue represented the end of the swinging 60s - an era that

really died the year earlier, as pragmatism replaced idealism and a hard core of hippies 

moved from trying to change the world by love to changing it by force.
    

The shift was marked - and partly caused by the increasing commercial use of the 

'Love Generation’s activities, as with the musical Hair, which shocked middle class, 

middle aged Britain when cast members stripped and faced the audience. `Full frontal 

nudity’ became a catchphrase but Hair was at the extreme end of the scale, (average 

women contented themselves with see-through dresses and most men declined to flash 

their body parts at all. )


Hair  - 1968 - The London Cast



Much Of The Love Bubble Was Burst By The Vietnam War And 


Particularly The Tet Offensive

But above all, 1968 marked the year of the end of innocence for many people. The 

dream was over, the bubble had burst. And much of this bubble bursting was done by 

the Vietnam War, as 1968 saw the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. We concentrate on 

Vietnam because it was this conflict which brought about so much change in the West 

and caused the United States so much self-inflicted pain and ultimately to redefine

itself.


The Tet Offensive 1968
Tet 1968
Tet 1968




   A Photo That Changed The War

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The Tet Offensive
1968 was the watershed year because it was the year of the Tet Offensive in which the

Vietnamese proved to the world that they were not beaten but in fact were beating the 

US - the world’s greatest military power.


Nearly 85,000 communist troops broke the truce arranged for January’s Tet Lunar 

New Year religious celebrations. They attacked 36 major South Vietnamese cities, 

broke into the American Embassy in Saigon and held the city of Hue for several weeks.

US and Australian forces counterattacked - but Tet was the turning point of the war, 

convincing many 'Hawks' that Vietnam could not be subdued by force.


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Still the division ran deep at home in the US with

demonstrations and riots, and even the killing of US students.

So many at home were against the war and the nation

was divided and bitter.
 

US Commander General William Westmoreland requested

more troops but was turned down by President Lyndon Johnson,

who three months later announced that bombing north of the

20th parallel would be stopped and he would not seek re-election.

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General Westmoreland
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President Richard Nixon

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President Lyndon Johnson

Presidential candidate Richard Nixon - who was to win the election - called for the war

to be scaled down and Johnson, in one of the last acts of his presidency, ordered a halt 

to all bombing of North Vietnam. Explanatory peace talks began in Paris. But the war

went on with all its butchery.


In Australia


Australia in 1968 also had its own street 

struggles with the moratorium 

demonstrations, mass arrests, protests, 

violence and injuries - against the Vietnam 

War. There were mass demonstrations 

against national service, and in response the

Government increased the penalties for 

avoiding conscription.
 
Normie Rowe - It Ain't Necessarily So

The Vietnam War was increasingly in the news, with the Tet offensive shocking those

who had believed in the inherent military superiority of the US and its allies. Of course 

the most famous Australian Pop soldier of the time was Normie Rowe, who injected his

own amount of questioning of the system - although at this stage of his life -only 

commercially.

All In All - 1968

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So, all in all, 1968 was important for the West and primarily 

the US political and youth culture. For after the assassination of

President Kennedy in 1963, the renewed violence that rent US

society was all too much persuading so many young people 

that society could not be reformed democratically. The Blacks 

had already come to this conclusion with the formation of 

groups like the Black Panthers.

A Certain Violence

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Charles Manson
And this led to a certain violence in the counterculture -

which we shall deal with later. But many in the counterculture

also came to such conclusions and demanded change even

if violently undertaken - and we only have to think of

Charles Manson for that.


So in 1968, the rioting that broke out in US cities after the 

killings of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, 

combined with the general student unrest and protests over 

Vietnam, convinced US conservatives that society as they 

knew it was at an end - as, in a way, it was.

So What In Sum Came Out Of 1968 - Which Added To Its Exceptionality?

(From the Courier Mail, Australia)


There was of course the drug culture. Few have looked frankly at this waste of 

potential, or the unworthiness of the drug for which so much was sacrificed.


But apart from drugs there was  a great democracy of thought. A 15 year fashion for 

casual sex that AIDS ended. A tolerance for abortion that saved a lot of souls and

ended a lot of tiny lives, and rendered  a good few unknowing girls incapable of child

bearing. 


There was also a wistful need for new religions to replace the ones that were gone, or

found worthless. There was a  lot of excellent popular music of course and excellent

musicians such as Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa and so many, many others. And there was

intricate clothing design and backyard careers in pottery and surfboard polishing and

abstract sculpture.


It was a tidal retreat for threatening grey cities and green and welcoming arcadias of

drugs and quarrelsome promiscuity and art and poetry and deaths by overdose and 

good companionship.
There were Sex shops, Encounter Groups, Acupuncture therapy, Wholisitic Dentistry. 

Aerobics, Chiropractic medicine, Vegetarian Cafes, The Australian film renaissance. 

Hemp in Pot plants for personal use. Daily deaths by heroin in Australia's better cities. 

There were campaigns to legalise it, and make it free. There emerged the tendency to 

foreign travel and Third World journeys, and religious and political comparisons that

have brought a perspective into our lives.
Indeed, without 1968 we would still be stifling in the buttoned up world that the movie 

'Grease' so pungently shows - of short haircuts and lying to parents and hypocritical 

religiosity and fraught careerism and tedious life plans and souped up cars and 

censorship and tight communities and sexual ignorance, a world some still yearn for.
'I too, some nights' - says the author - who also closed his article with: `I remember in 

particular a designed postcard of  Martin Sharp’s in 1968, that year when all things 

changed, "These ARE the good old days, it said. And They probably were." - 

unquote.


But above all, 1968 saw the death knell for the spiritual chant of the 'Flower Power' 

movement: `Make Love Not War! - which not too subtly changed to  - Make Love and 

Make War! And with the deaths in 1970 of many of its icons - of Hendrix, of Janis 

Joplin and of Jim Morrison, the counterculture was finished.

    Jimi Hendrix RIP                                             Janis Joplin RIP                                                      Jim Morrison RIP

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