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Hair - 1968 - The London Cast
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The Tet Offensive 1968
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Tet 1968
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Tet 1968
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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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Normie Rowe - It Ain't Necessarily So
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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. |
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. |
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