1 9 6 8 - The year that changed everything.

A must-see TV Academy seminar with
the leading journalists of a generation —
Jim Ruddle, John Palmer & Warner Saunders.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Refreshments: 6-7 pm Program: 7 pm

NBC Tower – Studio B, 454 N. Columbus Drive, Chicago

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Members: $10 – Non-Members: $15 – Students: Free

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s murder & aftermath
• Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy’s murder
• Democratic Convention & riots in Chicago
• 200,000 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia
• LBJ signs U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law
• In Vietnam: The My Lai massacre & Tet Offensive
• North Korea seizes the U.S.S. Pueblo
• Sadam Hussein assumes power in Iraq after a coup d’etat
• Black U.S. athletes’ participate in silent protest at Olympics
• Pope Paul VI issues a papal encyclical on birth control
• Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States
• Apollo 8 orbits the moon

1968 Workshop Flyer

This flyer is a PDF.