1968: The Year Everything Seems To Have Gone Wrong

Many books and internet sites have chronicled this crazy year. This column will be my personal recollections. I was 27 years old and had just returned from a Remote USAF Tour at Shemya, Alaska. My descriptions are not in any order. (By the way, the U.S. population in 1968 was 195,743,427.)1. Major Civil Rights voices are silenced: Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed on a Civil Rights tour...