It's hard to think of any other in the 20 thcentury – other than those where world wars were declared and fought – which was quite so volatile and literally explosive.Įverywhere you could hear the sound of marching chanting people, to paraphrase Mick Jagger in Street Fighting Man. It was the year that changed the world according to writer Mark Kurlansky. There were the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy the rise of the Black Panthers the imprisonment of Panther founder Huey Newton on murder charges and their Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver fleeing to Cuba after a shoot-out with the police in Oakland. Half a century ago when The White Album appeared, large parts of the Western world and beyond seemed to be tearing themselves apart, just six months on from the incense'n'marijuana whiff of the Summer of Love.ġ968 began badly and got worse: During the Tet Offensive in January Vietcong insurgents rose up all over South Vietnam and one unit got into the grounds of the US Embassy in Saigon the student demonstrations in Paris spread when workers joined them and there was a general strike which almost brought down the government anti-Vietnam demonstrations were everywhere including in Grosvenor Square in London.
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