1968 In America

1968 in the States         In Charles Kaisers book 1968 in America, he writes of the turbulence of a single year in history. He believed that the events of that year were the most pivotal in ever-changing the political and social nature of our country. His quote that 1968 was The moment when alto readher of a nations impulses toward violence, idealism, diversity and disorder peaked to produce the sterling(prenominal) possible hope-and the worst imaginable despair, sums up his beliefs in a single sentence.(introduction xv) What follows is a summary of his arguments and my feelings about his statements.

The Politicians         1968 was an election year and the country was smack dab in the substance of the Vietnam conflict. Vietnam was very much in the minds and the hearts of the American human race during this election year. Lyndon Johnson, the current president, was a supporter of the war in Vietnam. In February of that year, the TET offensive occurred in Saigon. The communists attacked the American Embassy and had control for heptad hours. Six Americans and 19 Veitcong were killed in the foray. Johnson had had the American public persuade that we were winning the war in Vietnam, this attack on our Embassy gave them the inaugural hint that maybe things were not going as sanitary as they were being led to believe.



Yet the attack on our embassy was just a small part of the Tet Offensive. The Vietcong had targeted many split of Saigon and fighting in the capital city ensued for 26 days. all in all, 142 Marines had been killed and 857 seriously wounded, and through the media coverage, it was happening in everyones sustenance room.

        Walter Cronkite was giving nightly updates on the war and on February 27th, report from Saigon, he told viewers that he felt that...

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