40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) ( See the posts in chronological order ) A few days after the election, as the reality ...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) (See the posts in chronological order ) November 5. The election was upon us, a scary ti...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) (See the posts in chronological order ) On Oct 2, US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas w...

Some updates

Not much to report here, except that I have added some new news researcher blog links to the NewsliBlog 's sidebar. And, for those of yo...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) This month, Yale junior Garry Trudeau began to draw a comics series about the football t...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) The Whole World is Watching The Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago on Augu...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower remained in Walter Reed Army hospital, after being...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On August 5, the Republican National Convention opened its sessions at the Miami Beach...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Somehow July slipped by me, so, a bit late, here's what we were doing that month in...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Since Dr. Martin Luther King's murder in April, investigators had been following a t...

40 years ago and now

I'm increasingly intrigued by the parallels between 1968 and today as commentators write about Barack Obama and Bobby Kennedy in the sam...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On Tuesday, June 4, California held its primary. Winning this primary was essential to B...

Worst in 40 years?

Part of the reason I've been remembering and researching the events of 1968 is because I just have a feeling about this year's race...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) At the beginning of June, it was starting to feel as though the world was falling apart...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On May 14, The SCLC's Poor People's Campaign began its Washington marches for e...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) In May, the turmoil continued: On May 2, in France, the university at Nanterre was shut ...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On April 11 Defense Secretary Clark Clifford announced Gen. Westmoreland's request f...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Saturday was supposed to be the big day of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, bu...