Flashback to 1968 - A Timeline of Life in America

I was twelve years old and my cousin made it home from Nam with Bronze star and Purple heart and left me praying it would end before I was 18 !

1968 take me back ,I shall stay there

1968 was a turning point in my life. It would be the first time in my life that I experienced the death of a family member. My grandfather passed away, a man that I hardly knew yet missed dearly. He had a stroke the year before and couldn't speak anymore. I just remember him sitting in a chair in the living room staring at the TV. I never really got t know him or anything about him, but was always intrigued about what he was really like before the stroke. So many more family members have gone since then. Not too many left now.

Two days before he was shot, I stood next to Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. He was with Andy Williams and John Glen...

Also, on Nov 22, 1968, the Beatles released their self titled album better known as the White Album.

I was 7 years old living on a farm in South Dakota, and going to a one-room schoolhouse. When my mom told me Robert Kennedy had been killed I went up to my room and cried

Robert Kennedy campaigned in my hometown about 2 months before he was assassinated. I was 11 and will always remember what a thrill it was to see him along with his wife Ethel.

Also in 1968… Mayberry R.F.D starring Ken Berry premiered on CBS. The Doris Day Show starring Doris Day also premiered on CBS.

Of all your flashbacks 1968 deserves at least twice the coverage you give it.

I was born late in 1968 and have no memory of that year, but watching these recollections I find it fascinating to learn what life was like back then.

I have been waiting for my birth year of 1968. Thank you

My mother was one of two white teachers at a black school in Natchitoches Louisiana on 4/4/68. She was concerned about her own safety but she was also concerned about the best interests of her students. She stayed out to the end of the school year. I was 12. I remember trying to come to terms with what it meant to be white or black in America in 1968.

All these videos are very compelling. Every episode I've watched has been so well-depicted, so full of memories. You are a great story teller. So many of us remember these events that changed our lives and our families forever. I was 15 in 1968. There was a lot of strife that year; war, politics, you name it. Then in 2 short months nearly ALL of life as we knew it changed. April: the horrific assassination of Dr. King. We had seen the prior loss of JFK some 4 years before, in the first such tragedy of our lives. We'd thought SURELY there would never be another. June: The RFK assassination. Another senseless killing of a vibrant national icon. Then, the end of June, my Dad,at 44 years old, died of a sudden heart attack in our kitchen at home. My 2 sisters, then 18 and 11, my brother just 8. To a great degree then, '68 changed us and frankly so remains in our thoughts of that year. Thanks again for ALL of the Recollection Road videos. Your work reminds me of Ken Burns's great stuff. Keep it up.

On December the third, 1968, "Elvis Presley's 1968 Comeback Special" aired on NBC-TV. It was previously sponsored by Singer sewing machines.

I was nine years old in May of 1968. I was a car geek, and it was a great year for the American auto industry. I was also a budding musician, a lot of great music came out that year. But, my oldest brother was in Viet Nam, I was old enough to remember the assassinations, the riots, the election... The launch of Hot Wheels was a big deal to me, but I remember the darkness of that year as well.

I was 8 in 1968, Mr Rogers was such a great influence on me, I was fortunate to have amazing parents that taught me about being a good person but Mr Rogers helped also, empathy and kindness, two of my best characteristics.

1968 found me in the Marine Corps. For most of 68 I was stationed at Yuma, October 17th I arrived in Vietnam.

In 1968, figure skating champion Peggy Fleming had her very own TV special which was entitled "Here's Peggy Fleming!" on NBC-TV.

I was 17 years old in 1968 in High School. Thank you for bringing back these recollections.

Also in 1968… 2001: a Space Odyssey starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood was released Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes was released. No Way to Treat a Lady starring Rod Steiger, Lee Remick and George Segal was released. The Odd Couple starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau was released.