I was 17 also. I remember watching the Chicago riots on TV with my parents. I didn’t really grasp what it was all about at the time, but once in college I became one of those protesters and prayed that my male friends wouldn’t disappear when their draft number came up - either to Vietnam or Canada.
1968 was a turning point in my life. It would be the first time in my life that I experienced the death of a family member. My grandfather passed away, a man that I hardly knew yet missed dearly. He had a stroke the year before and couldn't speak anymore. I just remember him sitting in a chair in the living room staring at the TV. I never really got t know him or anything about him, but was always intrigued about what he was really like before the stroke. So many more family members have gone since then. Not too many left now.
So sorry you didn't have a chance to know your Grandfather. I lost my maternal Grandfather when I was 12, just remember a kind, quiet man who took me fishing. Still have his old rod, dip net, and a few precious memories. Try to spend time with, remaining family. Take care.
It's crazy how things seem like they will last forever, but one by one, everything comes to a close. My grandfather died in 1968 as well, but I was only 2 months old, yet I felt his presence with me throughout my life, and quite by coincidence, just saw this week a picture of his gravestone online, I'd never seen or visited it before. I was also able to trace back records of my great grandfather, great-great grandfather , great-great-great and even my _great-great-great-great grandfather_ back to the 1700's, who is literally buried just 8 minutes from the house I grew up in, yet I had no idea until this week
It was for me though I was only 5. I have a very good memory. I started kindergarten on September 3 (the day after Labor Day). The folllowing Sunday, I was in a bad car wreck (thankfully nobody was hurt). Though i didn't become aware of her passing until about a couple years later, my great-aunt died September 22.
All these videos are very compelling. Every episode I've watched has been so well-depicted, so full of memories. You are a great story teller. So many of us remember these events that changed our lives and our families forever. I was 15 in 1968. There was a lot of strife that year; war, politics, you name it. Then in 2 short months nearly ALL of life as we knew it changed. April: the horrific assassination of Dr. King. We had seen the prior loss of JFK some 4 years before, in the first such tragedy of our lives. We'd thought SURELY there would never be another. June: The RFK assassination. Another senseless killing of a vibrant national icon. Then, the end of June, my Dad,at 44 years old, died of a sudden heart attack in our kitchen at home. My 2 sisters, then 18 and 11, my brother just 8. To a great degree then, '68 changed us and frankly so remains in our thoughts of that year. Thanks again for ALL of the Recollection Road videos. Your work reminds me of Ken Burns's great stuff. Keep it up.
I always found the opening to Mayberry R.F.D a bit odd. Ken Berry's TV son Mike over throws a baseball and breaks a window, after which Ken Berry looks at him with a disappointed look. haha
Also in January 1968, The University of Houston Cougars upset UCLA and Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), 71-69, in the Astrodome. Elvin Hayes led Houston with 39 points. UCLA would get their revenge in the Final Four three months later. In spring of 1968, LBJ announced he would not be seeking re-election for the presidency, opening the door for VP Hubert Humphrey, Sen. Robert Kennedy and Sen. Eugene McCarthy, among others, to seek the nomination. In August, 1968, the Beatles released the single "Hey Jude" on their new Apple Records label. It had a running time of over seven minutes making it a favorite of disc jockeys with weak bladders. The song peaked at #1 on the Billboard singles chart for nine weeks. In September 1968, Denny McLain won 31 games pitching for the Detroit Tigers. It was the last time the majors had a 30-game winner and it is probably the last time ever given how the sport has evolved.
I was 8 in 1968, Mr Rogers was such a great influence on me, I was fortunate to have amazing parents that taught me about being a good person but Mr Rogers helped also, empathy and kindness, two of my best characteristics.
Also in 1968… 2001: a Space Odyssey starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood was released Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes was released. No Way to Treat a Lady starring Rod Steiger, Lee Remick and George Segal was released. The Odd Couple starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau was released.
@ Pernell Harrison - I remember seeing 2001 in the theater but in late December. The film was released to general audiences on April 3rd. Yes, I know way back then some hit movies had extended engagements, but I saw the movie in a 1st run house. It probably was a re-booking. A great movie from Stanley Kubrick and a great backdrop from the reality of NASA.
Yes a great movie to be interested in space and the race for it. Wait Hal what are you doing. Dave what are you doing , don't Dave don't. No please Dave don't pull the plug on me. Dave ,Hal. Dave. Look where we are today with computers 🖥 from then.
Although, I was not born in 68, I remember watching Dick Van Dyke in the early 70s before we headed out to either walk to or catch the bus at the corner for school. I also remember watching Laugh -In at night around 8pm.
I was 3 this year and I remember watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and was traumatized by the ice cream man and the rest of that movie. I had nightmares that night about the movie.
@@glennb8397 And we still haven't heeded the theme of technology running amock and endangering its users...look at how dehumanized people today are and they just keep on regressing.
Robert Kennedy campaigned in my hometown about 2 months before he was assassinated. I was 11 and will always remember what a thrill it was to see him along with his wife Ethel.
My mother was one of two white teachers at a black school in Natchitoches Louisiana on 4/4/68. She was concerned about her own safety but she was also concerned about the best interests of her students. She stayed out to the end of the school year. I was 12. I remember trying to come to terms with what it meant to be white or black in America in 1968.
@@davidburke2697 Just like horse racing was back then, so are most pro sports. Why do you think that on-line sports betting is so big now? NEVER bet money on them! From someone who knows.
I was nine years old in May of 1968. I was a car geek, and it was a great year for the American auto industry. I was also a budding musician, a lot of great music came out that year. But, my oldest brother was in Viet Nam, I was old enough to remember the assassinations, the riots, the election... The launch of Hot Wheels was a big deal to me, but I remember the darkness of that year as well.
My father was a cop in the Columbia University riots. He was paralyzed from the waist down. A student jumped off the building and landed on his back. All the Police wanted to do was calm people down, so they (Cops)were all unarmed.
When I was a car salesman twenty years ago I worked with a retired cop who was a rookie Chicago cop at the Democrat Convention riot in Chicago. He made it very clear that the cops were there to kick ass on the anti-war protestors. Even then, not all cops were good.
Even though I learned most of this in school it is nice to have it presented again in a appealing and thought provoking way. We must keep history in the background so we don't hopefully relive the bad but learn from it. Sadly I think that is not happening now.
I was 10 years old in 1968, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, in addition to all of the social unrest, I was convinced the world had gone completely insane.
In '68 I was stationed at the huge Navy Base in Long Beach, CA. That base is now occupied by a communist Chinese company and used for their cargo ships. Things have gotten very ugly since 1968.
In February of 1968, American-born figure skater Peggy Fleming won the gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France on ABC-TV. Seven months later, "The Banana Splits' Adventure Hour" made its debut on NBC-TV's Saturday morning lineup.
I was 15. So many of these events were seared into my young memory. I think you would be hard-pressed to find a year after WW II that had so many memorable events.
I was 7 years old living on a farm in South Dakota, and going to a one-room schoolhouse. When my mom told me Robert Kennedy had been killed I went up to my room and cried
On the morning of June 6th I went next door to get my friend to walk to school. It was the last day of school for us. In 5th grade. My friend’s mother told me about RFK getting shot the night before. She was crying and very upset. At school the teachers had a TV on in the hallway watching coverage of the shooting.
Be 11 and freedom to show others and going to camps or beaches. Movies 🎥 and sports .meeting other open minded people and listening to what others say and keeping an open mind
@James SS That was the play that turned the series around for The Tigers. If Brock slides, maybe the Cards finish us that day. But I will never forget that final out, Mickey Lolich jumping into Bill Freehan's arms. And Mayo Smith does not get the credit he deserves for that series win. Going with Mickey Stanley at short so he could have him and Al Kaline in the lineup? One of the gutsiest moves ever made on the diamond. I'll never forget all the cars driving around honking their horns. Such a memorable season.
I was 16 in this year . It was the best time of my life . My best friend and four girls hung together the entire time . We did not concern ourselves with politics and all that was happening in the world . We kept it simple and just had fun .
In the spring or summer of 1968, John Fitzgerald Kennedy's widow Jacqueline Bouvier married Aristotle Onassis with her only daughter Caroline as her junior maid-of-honor and only son JFK Jr. as Aristotle's junior best man. Wow! What a wedding! In September of that very same year, the animated cartoon show "The Archies" premiered on CBS's Saturday morning lineup. It featured the voices of Dallas McKennon as Archie Andrews, John Erwin as Reggie Mantle, Howard (Howie) Morris as Jughead Jones and Jane Webb as Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge and Sabrina Sawyer the Teenage Witch.
In 1968, the late Bing Crosby had his very own TV special with guest stars Bob Hope, Stella Stevens, Jose Feliciano and the Supremes on NBC-TV. It was previously sponsored by RCA Electronics.
I remember the 68' Corvette came out. The 3rd generation with the all new body style. I remember seeing someone in our school parking lot pulling out in one. It was my first closeup of one at the time.
I was 9, my older brother was rejected from serving in Vietnam because of flat feet and he was grateful. I had a great time playing with my Hot Wheels along with the orange track. Apollo stickers came in the cereal box and i put them on the electrical panel door in the kitchen.
the sixties for me, were like the Tale of Two Cities "it was the worst of times - it was the best of times"...yes there were the assassinations, Viet Nam with family friends son's coming home in a casket or wounded...but somehow I guess my parents made such great memories of trips to the oceans and trips to see relatives,...and making sure we had the tools to function in the world...picnics, parades,...going to the movies to see my first James Bond film...yes and Planet of the Apes,.. 2001... Star Trek,,, Mission Impossible, Smothers Brothers, and on it goes on T.V. as in life in general, there was a lot of happiness and al lot of sadness.....
In September of 1968, Filmation's animated superhero cartoon show "The Adventures of Batman & Robin" made its debut on CBS's Saturday morning lineup. It featured the voices of Olan Soule as Batman, Casey Kasem as Robin the Teenage Wonder and Jane Webb as Barbara Gordon, alias Batgirl. Holy nostalgia!!!
Back when it happened those of us alive back then didn't really give much thought to any of it. Looking back now, those were life changing events. I paid the most attention to the Viet Nam War because my 18th birthday was in 1975
I was 13 when "Hot Wheels" came out. I had most of them as the price for each brand new car in the box was .49 cents each. I would buy them at my local Longs Drug Store in West Covina, California. We would ride our sting ray bikes there. Sadly, all of those toy cars are now gone. Probably buried in the landfill. Thanks Mom.
I wont make you feel any worse by telling you what some of them in good shape go for today. I had a large Matchbox car collection too. Didn't save them either. Sigh...
Although the first live-action movie I ever saw in a theater was Oliver! when I was five, it wasn't until a few years later when my mom took me to see Escape from the Planet of the Apes in a nearly empty theater that I became obsessed with all things Ape. And then I remember having to wait about another two or three years to see the original film that they finally aired on TV. I think it was the CBS Friday Night Movie (ABC?). That was one of the greatest nights of my youth. Thanks for highlighting the movie's original theatrical premiere here1
U.S. and Canadian Major Professional Sports Championships for 1968 include... MLB - Detroit Tigers (won last World Series before the Division era began in 1969) NBA - Boston Celtics Pro Football (January) - Green Bay Packers (Super Bowl II to complete 1967 season)/ NFL - Baltimore Colts/AFL -New York Jets (both in December) CFL - Ottawa Rough Riders (Grey Cup) NHL - Montreal Canadiens Also in 1968, MLB created the divisional lineup for the American and National Leagues... AL East - Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, N.Y. Yankees, Washington. AL West - California, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City, Minnesota, Oakland, Seattle. NL East - Chicago Cubs, Montreal, N.Y. Mets, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis. NL West - Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco. (all effective with the start of the 1969 season).
Joel, I have been reading every daily issue of a newspaper from 1967. I don't know if you're doing that, but it's a very interesting way of reliving a particular year historically. Many archived newspapers are available online. Perhaps your hometown paper is?
In December of 1968, Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower at a lavish & splendid wedding ceremony. Julie's elder sister Tricia became the maid-of-honor.
In September of 1968, "Blondie" premiered on CBS. It starred Patricia Healy as Blondie Bumstead with Will Hutchins as her husband Dagwood, Peter Robbins as their son Alexander, Pamelyn Ferdin as their daughter Cookie and Jim Backus as Dagwood's bossy boss himself... J.C. Dithers.
A lot of kids in school were bringing their hot wheels to school. I couldn't afford one. The cost was about a dollar, that was equal to about the cost of lunch in the cafeteria for 3 days. Our lunch was .35cent which was milk, meat, 2 vegetables and a desert.
I was 13 years old and working my second summer as a carpenter's helper, framing new homes. The previous year a friend's dad hired me to help his son's working with him framing homes. He paid me $50 dollars a week. My second year (1968) I got my social security number and he paid me $75 dollars a week, but took out taxes. I also worked weekends with him. That was a lot of money for a kid back then and I bought myself a motorcycle. It was a 1965 Yamaha 125 dirt bike. In 1969 at age 14, I was making regular carpenter's wages and bought my first car, a 1961 Thunderbird convertible, from the Ford dealership for $500. I didn't even have a driver's license yet, but they sold it to me anyway! I was pretty popular in high school because most kids were still riding the school bus, while I was driving to school.
1968 was kind of the period that I first gained what I consider full sentience, having been born in late 1962. I have memories from much earlier of course, but started putting together the pieces of life into a coherent system at 5 or 6. So my thinking life basically began in 1968.
at Keith Wilson.. My late brother Mickey was also born in 1962. And i remember going places with my Grandpa Maynard and us going to the farm to do the chores in my grandpa's white 1964 International pickup truck and Saturday morning cartoons at 5.00 am on our black and white television..
There were two movies. One's entitled "Oliver!" It starred Mark Lester as Oliver Twist and Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger and the other one's entitled "Take a Walk on the Wild Side."
On Monday, New Year's Day, 1968, ABC-TV premiered "The Baby Game" which was hosted by Richard Hayes. Five days later on the very year, the very same TV network also premiered "Happening 1968." It was hosted by Paul Revere & His Raiders, along with gossip columnist Kathy Orloff for the "What's Happening?!" segment and male fashion model Keith Rogers for "The Style Faire" segment. Six months later on Monday, July the fifteenth (the day after Bastille Day), the very same TV network also premiered the five-day-a-week musical show which was entitled "It's Happening!" It was also hosted by the very same people who also did "Happening 1968." On Monday, April Fools' Day of that very same year, ABC-TV also premiered another game show which was entitled "Dream House." It was hosted by Mike Darrow who also hosted another game show which was entitled "Jackpot!" on the USA Cable TV Network that was premiered on September the thirtieth, 1985. Another game show premiered on that very same day was "The Wedding Party" on ABC-TV. It was hosted by Suzanne Somers' future husband Alan Hamel.
Night of the Living Dead marked the end, sadly, of classic horror films in the US. It led directly to the callous, souless junk that passes for "modern" horror, although it took a while for this to become completely evident.
Even though I was 2 years old, I remember the energy was so strong when MLK died, our neighborhood and areas was totally dark, people were extra angry, there were some shooting going on. Everyone felt the losses added with the war, Kennedy shot etc. The music was heavily strong and driven, some which expressed here at home with the issues as well as the war. All this from me, the eyes of an African American black kid.
In December 1968, I was terribly sick from the 1968 Hong Kong Flu pandemic. There had been a major antigenic shift, and the flu shots and our own natural immunity were ineffective. Still, I managed to rouse myself just enough to watch Apollo 8 circle the Moon on my family's new RCA color TV, and hear the astronauts' Christmas message.
I eas r yrsrs old. I remember RFKs assasination/funeral coverage. My grandparents & parents sere so sad. My 8 year old brother tried to explain what happened.
1969 is next with the rebirth of the movement and Woodstock. Let hear it for the Sunday morning Star Spaingel Banner . Let's all stand and chear. And love 💘
@@bjs301 Peace, Love,Freedom. To be 11 and listen to others around you of the goid and the bad events. To be able to enjoy an open free lifestyle of a youth naturist and intervered for many magazine and books and free to express one's self in art 🎨 and young new love .To meet others open for expression . Later in life to be part of a great book ( growing up without shame by dennis Craig Smith) to understand growing up with others at camps or beaches ⛱ .to share with youth then and now in a crazy world 🌎
The Pueblo Incident took place January 23 in international waters off the coast of North Korea. The North Korean navy illegally çaptured the USS Pueblo and crew and did not release them until December of that year after torturing the crew for months.
I live in Huntsville, Alabama. It was nice to see that Alabama had a first, the 911 call. Alabama is usually close to bringing up the rear in lots of measures. There is an rxpression down here, "Thank God for Mississippi"!
You should’ve mentioned the Elvis Presley TV Special in early December 1968. But most importantly you showed a picture of the 1968 Olympics Games Black Panther Salute at the beginning of the video, but then never talked about it.
In 1968 we lived in New Jersey. The county schools all children brought their own launch. I just started kindergarten and had a Disney school bus lunchbox. On the morning bus to school all kids rode, even high schoolers rode. A high school boy snatched my lunchbox out of my hands and trough it out a window. It took me a few seconds to calm down and I asked him where he learned to act like that. It was his abusive father, who he hated. He stood up and told the bus driver to stop. After explaining a boy who was a track runner ran back and retrieved my lunchbox. A car had ran over it. A high school girl pointed up who ever ran over it had to have seen it. A boy offered me his lunch. I told him it would be cruel to take it and said I would take a part. Then every kid on the bus gave me some food. I had more then I could eat and asked if I could share it with kids who didn’t have any lunch. After that doing good deeds spread to parents. A high school girl, who was also abused, as the boy who snatched my lunchbox and as I was too., came up with the name “Army of Good” The CIA keeps tabs on the American people. One thing they look for are powerful people. I would not find this out till 2 years later. The CIA hear about me. The head of the CIA told the President Johnson. But all they had was, I was powerful and was rapidly building an army. The head of CIA wanted to have me assassinated. A few days later, the former first lady Jackie Kennedy was visiting the president when the head of CIA followed up. The Head of CIA recommended again I be assassinated. Then they read the file. It said I was 5 year old. They thought it was an error, then read I was in kindergarten. They also found out it was an army of people doing good deeds. The head of CIA still wanted me assassinated. Jackie put a stopped to it. In 1970 my second grade teacher took me to the US Capitol to speak out about child abuse. President Nixon sat beside me as I talked. Later he gave me a tour of the Capitol Building and the White House. Jackie Kennedy was staying in the White House and President Nixon introduced me to her. That is when I found out.
I entered the 5th grade in 1968.At my school,half the 5th grade and the entire 6th had more than one teacher.One taught English,reading & spelling.Another taught science,a third taught math,a fourth taught history,and the fifth taught music and art.
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I was 17 years old in 1968 in High School. Thank you for bringing back these recollections.
You were 15 years older than me. I thank him also for the recollections altho some are a bit fuzzy for me being only 5 years old.
I was 8
at Duane Stanley..and i was going on 7 years old,
I remember alot of this in 68 I was 9 years old. What a time to grow up. Some very spiritual things happened in the 60s.
I was 17 also. I remember watching the Chicago riots on TV with my parents. I didn’t really grasp what it was all about at the time, but once in college I became one of those protesters and prayed that my male friends wouldn’t disappear when their draft number came up - either to Vietnam or Canada.
Of all your flashbacks 1968 deserves at least twice the coverage you give it.
I have been waiting for my birth year of 1968. Thank you
1968 was a turning point in my life. It would be the first time in my life that I experienced the death of a family member. My grandfather passed away, a man that I hardly knew yet missed dearly. He had a stroke the year before and couldn't speak anymore. I just remember him sitting in a chair in the living room staring at the TV. I never really got t know him or anything about him, but was always intrigued about what he was really like before the stroke. So many more family members have gone since then. Not too many left now.
So sorry you didn't have a chance to know your Grandfather. I lost my maternal Grandfather when I was 12, just remember a kind, quiet man who took me fishing. Still have his old rod, dip net, and a few precious memories.
Try to spend time with, remaining family. Take care.
It's crazy how things seem like they will last forever, but one by one, everything comes to a close. My grandfather died in 1968 as well, but I was only 2 months old, yet I felt his presence with me throughout my life, and quite by coincidence, just saw this week a picture of his gravestone online, I'd never seen or visited it before. I was also able to trace back records of my great grandfather, great-great grandfather , great-great-great and even my _great-great-great-great grandfather_ back to the 1700's, who is literally buried just 8 minutes from the house I grew up in, yet I had no idea until this week
It was for me though I was only 5. I have a very good memory. I started kindergarten on September 3 (the day after Labor Day). The folllowing Sunday, I was in a bad car wreck (thankfully nobody was hurt). Though i didn't become aware of her passing until about a couple years later, my great-aunt died September 22.
I was born late in 1968 and have no memory of that year, but watching these recollections I find it fascinating to learn what life was like back then.
I was twelve years old and my cousin made it home from Nam with Bronze star and Purple heart and left me praying it would end before I was 18 !
Another great recollection road time line video. It gets my 👍👍
All these videos are very compelling. Every episode I've watched has been so well-depicted, so full of memories. You are a great story teller. So many of us remember these events that changed our lives and our families forever.
I was 15 in 1968. There was a lot of strife that year; war, politics, you name it.
Then in 2 short months nearly ALL of life as we knew it changed.
April: the horrific assassination of Dr. King. We had seen the prior loss of JFK some 4 years before, in the first such tragedy of our lives. We'd thought SURELY there would never be another.
June: The RFK assassination. Another senseless killing of a vibrant national icon. Then, the end of June, my Dad,at 44 years old, died of a sudden heart attack in our kitchen at home. My 2 sisters, then 18 and 11, my brother just 8.
To a great degree then, '68 changed us and frankly so remains in our thoughts of that year. Thanks again for ALL of the Recollection Road videos. Your work reminds me of Ken Burns's great stuff. Keep it up.
Also in 1968…
Mayberry R.F.D starring Ken Berry premiered on CBS.
The Doris Day Show starring Doris Day also premiered on CBS.
I always found the opening to Mayberry R.F.D a bit odd. Ken Berry's TV son Mike over throws a baseball and breaks a window, after which Ken Berry looks at him with a disappointed look. haha
Also in January 1968, The University of Houston Cougars upset UCLA and Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), 71-69, in the Astrodome. Elvin Hayes led Houston with 39 points. UCLA would get their revenge in the Final Four three months later.
In spring of 1968, LBJ announced he would not be seeking re-election for the presidency, opening the door for VP Hubert Humphrey, Sen. Robert Kennedy and Sen. Eugene McCarthy, among others, to seek the nomination.
In August, 1968, the Beatles released the single "Hey Jude" on their new Apple Records label. It had a running time of over seven minutes making it a favorite of disc jockeys with weak bladders. The song peaked at #1 on the Billboard singles chart for nine weeks.
In September 1968, Denny McLain won 31 games pitching for the Detroit Tigers. It was the last time the majors had a 30-game winner and it is probably the last time ever given how the sport has evolved.
@@MaxStax1 You know, accidents do happen. 😊
1968 take me back ,I shall stay there
I was 8 in 1968, Mr Rogers was such a great influence on me, I was fortunate to have amazing parents that taught me about being a good person but Mr Rogers helped also, empathy and kindness, two of my best characteristics.
Also in 1968…
2001: a Space Odyssey starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood was released
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes was released.
No Way to Treat a Lady starring Rod Steiger, Lee Remick and George Segal was released.
The Odd Couple starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau was released.
@ Pernell Harrison - I remember seeing 2001 in the theater but in late December. The film was released to general audiences on April 3rd. Yes, I know way back then some hit movies had extended engagements, but I saw the movie in a 1st run house. It probably was a re-booking. A great movie from Stanley Kubrick and a great backdrop from the reality of NASA.
Yes a great movie to be interested in space and the race for it. Wait Hal what are you doing. Dave what are you doing , don't Dave don't. No please Dave don't pull the plug on me. Dave ,Hal. Dave. Look where we are today with computers 🖥 from then.
Although, I was not born in 68, I remember watching Dick Van Dyke in the early 70s before we headed out to either walk to or catch the bus at the corner for school. I also remember watching Laugh -In at night around 8pm.
I was 3 this year and I remember watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and was traumatized by the ice cream man and the rest of that movie. I had nightmares that night about the movie.
@@glennb8397 And we still haven't heeded the theme of technology running amock and endangering its users...look at how dehumanized people today are and they just keep on regressing.
Robert Kennedy campaigned in my hometown about 2 months before he was assassinated. I was 11 and will always remember what a thrill it was to see him along with his wife Ethel.
Also, on Nov 22, 1968, the Beatles released their self titled album better known as the White Album.
My mother was one of two white teachers at a black school in Natchitoches Louisiana on 4/4/68. She was concerned about her own safety but she was also concerned about the best interests of her students. She stayed out to the end of the school year. I was 12. I remember trying to come to terms with what it meant to be white or black in America in 1968.
And what have they done with their "Civil rights?" Women, Blacks, and Kids are all out of control now.
I loved Laugh-In and Mister Rogers. Apollo 8 was a great ending to a tumultuous year.
Moonlandings and missions were fraud. Sorry to inform you. TV lies like a rug.
@@davidburke2697 And in guessing the earth is flat and Trump won. 😂
My uncle was the guy at NBC who switched the football game to Heidi. He wasn't ever able to live that down, poor guy 😆
And football is rigged....fraud every Sunday.
@@davidburke2697 Just like horse racing was back then, so are most pro sports. Why do you think that on-line sports betting is so big now? NEVER bet money on them! From someone who knows.
@@themagus5906 The only legit sport is professional wrestling. 😉
It's the very first football game I remember watching, I was seven and I was not pleased with Heidi at all!
I was 14 and watching that game!*!!*!!!
1968 found me in the Marine Corps. For most of 68 I was stationed at Yuma, October 17th I arrived in Vietnam.
Thank you for your service!😊🇺🇸🙏
In 1968, Elvis Presley had his come back special, that remains one of the best TV music special in history.
Dec 3 1968 a reminder of what elvis was and could've been.
I was nine years old in May of 1968. I was a car geek, and it was a great year for the American auto industry. I was also a budding musician, a lot of great music came out that year. But, my oldest brother was in Viet Nam, I was old enough to remember the assassinations, the riots, the election... The launch of Hot Wheels was a big deal to me, but I remember the darkness of that year as well.
Thanks for the upload 🇬🇧
In 1968, figure skating champion Peggy Fleming had her very own TV special which was entitled "Here's Peggy Fleming!" on NBC-TV.
Two days before he was shot, I stood next to Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. He was with Andy Williams and John Glen...
My father was a cop in the Columbia University riots. He was paralyzed from the waist down. A student jumped off the building and landed on his back. All the Police wanted to do was calm people down, so they (Cops)were all unarmed.
I am so sorry 🥺
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Thank you , he was a regular on Fox News with Hannity etc., until he died in 2016
When I was a car salesman twenty years ago I worked with a retired cop who was a rookie Chicago cop at the Democrat Convention riot in Chicago. He made it very clear that the cops were there to kick ass on the anti-war protestors. Even then, not all cops were good.
Even though I learned most of this in school it is nice to have it presented again in a appealing and thought provoking way. We must keep history in the background so we don't hopefully relive the bad but learn from it. Sadly I think that is not happening now.
Glad some of you youngsters, at least, are learning history. So many seem not to know hardly anything of it.
I was 10 years old in 1968, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, in addition to all of the social unrest, I was convinced the world had gone completely insane.
Not quite...that wouldn't happen until 2020
Atleast in America
EDIT: From what i heard atleast.
In '68 I was stationed at the huge Navy Base in Long Beach, CA. That base is now occupied by a communist Chinese company and used for their cargo ships. Things have gotten very ugly since 1968.
In February of 1968, American-born figure skater Peggy Fleming won the gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France on ABC-TV. Seven months later, "The Banana Splits' Adventure Hour" made its debut on NBC-TV's Saturday morning lineup.
She was so beautiful
On December the third, 1968, "Elvis Presley's 1968 Comeback Special" aired on NBC-TV. It was previously sponsored by Singer sewing machines.
I remember most of these I was 12 years old. It was an interesting year.
I was 15. So many of these events were seared into my young memory. I think you would be hard-pressed to find a year after WW II that had so many memorable events.
@@emmgeevideo True very True
It was a great year and to be 11 in free love and express with others camp's or ⛱
I was 13. 🌞
@@eileenlester4342 I turned 13 during 68 actually.
I was 7 years old living on a farm in South Dakota, and going to a one-room schoolhouse. When my mom told me Robert Kennedy had been killed I went up to my room and cried
I was just born Feb 25th 1968, love this
1968 Took delivery of a new Chevy Suburban, drove it to Alaska and back, came face to face with a Grizzly in the Yukon.
What A Year!
I Thought That You Were Going To Say That You Came Face To Face With *STARWATER* ~
On the morning of June 6th I went next door to get my friend to walk to school. It was the last day of school for us. In 5th grade. My friend’s mother told me about RFK getting shot the night before. She was crying and very upset. At school the teachers had a TV on in the hallway watching coverage of the shooting.
In 1968, I was 11 years old and I was in the 6th grade. The Detroit Tigers won the World Series.
The team that made me fall in love with baseball.
Be 11 and freedom to show others and going to camps or beaches. Movies 🎥 and sports .meeting other open minded people and listening to what others say and keeping an open mind
@James SS That was the play that turned the series around for The Tigers. If Brock slides, maybe the Cards finish us that day. But I will never forget that final out, Mickey Lolich jumping into Bill Freehan's arms. And Mayo Smith does not get the credit he deserves for that series win. Going with Mickey Stanley at short so he could have him and Al Kaline in the lineup? One of the gutsiest moves ever made on the diamond. I'll never forget all the cars driving around honking their horns. Such a memorable season.
I was 16 in this year . It was the best time of my life . My best friend and four girls hung together the entire time . We did not concern ourselves with politics and all that was happening in the world . We kept it simple and just had fun .
In the spring or summer of 1968, John Fitzgerald Kennedy's widow Jacqueline Bouvier married Aristotle Onassis with her only daughter Caroline as her junior maid-of-honor and only son JFK Jr. as Aristotle's junior best man. Wow! What a wedding! In September of that very same year, the animated cartoon show "The Archies" premiered on CBS's Saturday morning lineup. It featured the voices of Dallas McKennon as Archie Andrews, John Erwin as Reggie Mantle, Howard (Howie) Morris as Jughead Jones and Jane Webb as Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge and Sabrina Sawyer the Teenage Witch.
Whatta marriage that was. What Jacqueline was thinking, my God! Never got it...🤔
In 1968, the late Bing Crosby had his very own TV special with guest stars Bob Hope, Stella Stevens, Jose Feliciano and the Supremes on NBC-TV. It was previously sponsored by RCA Electronics.
I was only 8 in ‘68, but a couple of these ‘headlines’ I remember well! Great video
I remember the 68' Corvette came out. The 3rd generation with the all new body style. I remember seeing someone in our school parking lot pulling out in one. It was my first closeup of one at the time.
I was 9, my older brother was rejected from serving in Vietnam because of flat feet and he was grateful. I had a great time playing with my Hot Wheels along with the orange track. Apollo stickers came in the cereal box and i put them on the electrical panel door in the kitchen.
Flat feet, seriously? Your family must have had connections 😂
the sixties for me, were like the Tale of Two Cities "it was the worst of times - it was the best of times"...yes there were the assassinations, Viet Nam with family friends son's coming home in a casket or wounded...but somehow I guess my parents made such great memories of trips to the oceans and trips to see relatives,...and making sure we had the tools to function in the world...picnics, parades,...going to the movies to see my first James Bond film...yes and Planet of the Apes,.. 2001...
Star Trek,,, Mission Impossible, Smothers Brothers, and on it goes on T.V. as in life in general, there was a lot of happiness and al lot of sadness.....
I graduated high school in 1968.
In September of 1968, Filmation's animated superhero cartoon show "The Adventures of Batman & Robin" made its debut on CBS's Saturday morning lineup. It featured the voices of Olan Soule as Batman, Casey Kasem as Robin the Teenage Wonder and Jane Webb as Barbara Gordon, alias Batgirl. Holy nostalgia!!!
Back when it happened those of us alive back then didn't really give much thought to any of it. Looking back now, those were life changing events. I paid the most attention to the Viet Nam War because my 18th birthday was in 1975
I was 13 when "Hot Wheels" came out. I had most of them as the price for each brand new car in the box was .49 cents each. I would buy them at my local Longs Drug Store in West Covina, California. We would ride our sting ray bikes there.
Sadly, all of those toy cars are now gone. Probably buried in the landfill. Thanks Mom.
I wont make you feel any worse by telling you what some of them in good shape go for today. I had a large Matchbox car collection too. Didn't save them either. Sigh...
@@b3j8 I'm pretty sure he knows that original Hot Wheels are valuable collectibles today.
In 1968, the Mattel Toy Company also introduced the Talking Barbie & Stacey dolls.
Although the first live-action movie I ever saw in a theater was Oliver! when I was five, it wasn't until a few years later when my mom took me to see Escape from the Planet of the Apes in a nearly empty theater that I became obsessed with all things Ape. And then I remember having to wait about another two or three years to see the original film that they finally aired on TV. I think it was the CBS Friday Night Movie (ABC?). That was one of the greatest nights of my youth. Thanks for highlighting the movie's original theatrical premiere here1
U.S. and Canadian Major Professional Sports Championships for 1968 include...
MLB - Detroit Tigers (won last World Series before the Division era began in 1969)
NBA - Boston Celtics
Pro Football (January) - Green Bay Packers (Super Bowl II to complete 1967 season)/
NFL - Baltimore Colts/AFL -New York Jets (both in December)
CFL - Ottawa Rough Riders (Grey Cup)
NHL - Montreal Canadiens
Also in 1968, MLB created the divisional lineup for the American and National Leagues...
AL East - Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, N.Y. Yankees, Washington.
AL West - California, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City, Minnesota, Oakland, Seattle.
NL East - Chicago Cubs, Montreal, N.Y. Mets, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis.
NL West - Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco.
(all effective with the start of the 1969 season).
Pls make these "flashback to" videos longer with more content. Thanks! Im subbing.
I use 1968 as my coming-of-age year and study every day of it. Here I was enjoying life as an 11-12-year-old boy amid the turbulence and fun of 1968.
Joel, I have been reading every daily issue of a newspaper from 1967. I don't know if you're doing that, but it's a very interesting way of reliving a particular year historically. Many archived newspapers are available online. Perhaps your hometown paper is?
@@riverraisin1 i was 10 going on 11. What a year. So much going on. Assassinations, Vietnam, Elections. Basically my coming of age too.
My brother was born in 1968 I wish I lived back then😊
In December of 1968, Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower at a lavish & splendid wedding ceremony. Julie's elder sister Tricia became the maid-of-honor.
In September of 1968, "Blondie" premiered on CBS. It starred Patricia Healy as Blondie Bumstead with Will Hutchins as her husband Dagwood, Peter Robbins as their son Alexander, Pamelyn Ferdin as their daughter Cookie and Jim Backus as Dagwood's bossy boss himself... J.C. Dithers.
1968 eas so tumultuous it should have a part 2. Omg.
Love the video
The girl shown as one of the first victims of the Zodiac killer is actually Darlene Ferrin; the second couple shot by the Zodiac on July 4th.
A lot of kids in school were bringing their hot wheels to school. I couldn't afford one. The cost was about a dollar, that was equal to about the cost of lunch in the cafeteria for 3 days. Our lunch was .35cent which was milk, meat, 2 vegetables and a desert.
I would turn 7 yrs old in 68 so remember all this. I'm almost 60 now and think the same I did then. Why can't people just leave other people alone.
A few years later Harry Reasoner would do a special called, “1968: A Crack in Time.” Having lived through it, I thought the title was spot on.
I was 13 years old and working my second summer as a carpenter's helper, framing new homes. The previous year a friend's dad hired me to help his son's working with him framing homes. He paid me $50 dollars a week. My second year (1968) I got my social security number and he paid me $75 dollars a week, but took out taxes. I also worked weekends with him. That was a lot of money for a kid back then and I bought myself a motorcycle. It was a 1965 Yamaha 125 dirt bike. In 1969 at age 14, I was making regular carpenter's wages and bought my first car, a 1961 Thunderbird convertible, from the Ford dealership for $500. I didn't even have a driver's license yet, but they sold it to me anyway! I was pretty popular in high school because most kids were still riding the school bus, while I was driving to school.
Thank you
1968 was kind of the period that I first gained what I consider full sentience, having been born in late 1962. I have memories from much earlier of course, but started putting together the pieces of life into a coherent system at 5 or 6. So my thinking life basically began in 1968.
at Keith Wilson.. My late brother Mickey was also born in 1962. And i remember going places with my Grandpa Maynard and us going to the farm to do the chores in my grandpa's white 1964 International pickup truck and Saturday morning cartoons at 5.00 am on our black and white television..
Interesting. Same here. I was born on 1/1/1963. Great observation.
In the spring of 1968, "The Batman TV Show" had its series finale episode on ABC-TV. In other words: its final hurrah & swan song.
It was just called "Batman."
On February the eleventh, 1968, NBC-TV aired a TV special which was entitled "The Fabulous Funnies" which was hosted by the late Carl Reiner.
Great time to be alive
There were two movies. One's entitled "Oliver!" It starred Mark Lester as Oliver Twist and Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger and the other one's entitled "Take a Walk on the Wild Side."
The debut of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and birth of Gillian Anderson on August 9th (huge X-Files fan :)) were my favorite things about 1968.
On Monday, New Year's Day, 1968, ABC-TV premiered "The Baby Game" which was hosted by Richard Hayes. Five days later on the very year, the very same TV network also premiered "Happening 1968." It was hosted by Paul Revere & His Raiders, along with gossip columnist Kathy Orloff for the "What's Happening?!" segment and male fashion model Keith Rogers for "The Style Faire" segment. Six months later on Monday, July the fifteenth (the day after Bastille Day), the very same TV network also premiered the five-day-a-week musical show which was entitled "It's Happening!" It was also hosted by the very same people who also did "Happening 1968." On Monday, April Fools' Day of that very same year, ABC-TV also premiered another game show which was entitled "Dream House." It was hosted by Mike Darrow who also hosted another game show which was entitled "Jackpot!" on the USA Cable TV Network that was premiered on September the thirtieth, 1985. Another game show premiered on that very same day was "The Wedding Party" on ABC-TV. It was hosted by Suzanne Somers' future husband Alan Hamel.
I remember. My dear mother crying when the news came out of Robert Kennedy. She was ironing bed sheets because that's what moms did back then.
Night of the Living Dead marked the end, sadly, of classic horror films in the US. It led directly to the callous, souless junk that passes for "modern" horror, although it took a while for this to become completely evident.
We're there again. And I don't know if cooler heads will prevail this time.
I got my first job this year.
Oops! I almost forgot! There was a comedy movie entitled "The Party" with Peter Sellers & Claudine Longet.
R.I.P Michael Tahana, January 19th, 1968 - October 14th, 2017.
R.I.P Allan Laider, May 13th, 1968 - October 14th, 2017.
The 1968 Hixon Train Collision Tribute 1968-2020.
R.I.H Michael Fernandez, January 10th, 1927 ~ January 19th, 1968.
R.I.H Allan Fernandez, May 17th, 1927 ~ May 13th, 1968.
The 2020's make ,1968 Look like The 1950's For God Sakes.
In a way, they too back in '68 had a choice between a strutting tyrant (Wallace) & an clueless poltroon (Humphrey).
Even though I was 2 years old, I remember the energy was so strong when MLK died, our neighborhood and areas was totally dark, people were extra angry, there were some shooting going on. Everyone felt the losses added with the war, Kennedy shot etc. The music was heavily strong and driven, some which expressed here at home with the issues as well as the war. All this from me, the eyes of an African American black kid.
This was my first year of Highschool...
The 60's was a Very Turbulent Time (off & on) throughout this decade.
In December 1968, I was terribly sick from the 1968 Hong Kong Flu pandemic. There had been a major antigenic shift, and the flu shots and our own natural immunity were ineffective. Still, I managed to rouse myself just enough to watch Apollo 8 circle the Moon on my family's new RCA color TV, and hear the astronauts' Christmas message.
1968 WAS CRAZY SCARY TIMES!!!😱....YOU COULDN'T AVOID IT!
To me it will always be the year the music died. MLK and RFK shot, a few years after JFK.
JFK was shot before MLK and RFK
@@denisedenise9725 - Maybe read my comment again.
The comma works as it should. Lol
I eas r yrsrs old. I remember RFKs assasination/funeral coverage. My grandparents & parents sere so sad. My 8 year old brother tried to explain what happened.
1969 is next with the rebirth of the movement and Woodstock. Let hear it for the Sunday morning Star Spaingel Banner . Let's all stand and chear. And love 💘
What movement?
@@bjs301 Peace, Love,Freedom. To be 11 and listen to others around you of the goid and the bad events. To be able to enjoy an open free lifestyle of a youth naturist and intervered for many magazine and books and free to express one's self in art 🎨 and young new love .To meet others open for expression . Later in life to be part of a great book ( growing up without shame by dennis Craig Smith) to understand growing up with others at camps or beaches ⛱ .to share with youth then and now in a crazy world 🌎
The Pueblo Incident took place January 23 in international waters off the coast of North Korea. The North Korean navy illegally çaptured the USS Pueblo and crew and did not release them until December of that year after torturing the crew for months.
My parents got married in 1968. I came along 6 years later.
I live in Huntsville, Alabama. It was nice to see that Alabama had a first, the 911 call. Alabama is usually close to bringing up the rear in lots of measures. There is an rxpression down here, "Thank God for Mississippi"!
At 3:35, Kennedy was shot in the hotel's kitchen. The "Ambassador Hotel" was closed after this and is now gone, I believe.
⭐ Another *GREAT* happening , *1968* in *February* *I WAS BORN* 😃
You should’ve mentioned the Elvis Presley TV Special in early December 1968. But most importantly you showed a picture of the 1968 Olympics Games Black Panther Salute at the beginning of the video, but then never talked about it.
I was just being Born 😭
I was six
I was one.
Itbwas great going back in time to 1968!
In 1968 we lived in New Jersey. The county schools all children brought their own launch.
I just started kindergarten and had a Disney school bus lunchbox.
On the morning bus to school all kids rode, even high schoolers rode.
A high school boy snatched my lunchbox out of my hands and trough it out a window.
It took me a few seconds to calm down and I asked him where he learned to act like that.
It was his abusive father, who he hated. He stood up and told the bus driver to stop.
After explaining a boy who was a track runner ran back and retrieved my lunchbox.
A car had ran over it. A high school girl pointed up who ever ran over it had to have seen it.
A boy offered me his lunch. I told him it would be cruel to take it and said I would take a part. Then every kid on the bus gave me some food.
I had more then I could eat and asked if I could share it with kids who didn’t have any lunch.
After that doing good deeds spread to parents. A high school girl, who was also abused, as the boy who snatched my lunchbox and as I was too., came up with the name “Army of Good”
The CIA keeps tabs on the American people. One thing they look for are powerful people.
I would not find this out till 2 years later.
The CIA hear about me. The head of the CIA told the President Johnson. But all they had was, I was powerful and was rapidly building an army. The head of CIA wanted to have me assassinated.
A few days later, the former first lady Jackie Kennedy was visiting the president when the head of CIA followed up. The Head of CIA recommended again I be assassinated. Then they read the file. It said I was 5 year old. They thought it was an error, then read I was in kindergarten. They also found out it was an army of people doing good deeds. The head of CIA still wanted me assassinated. Jackie put a stopped to it.
In 1970 my second grade teacher took me to the US Capitol to speak out about child abuse.
President Nixon sat beside me as I talked. Later he gave me a tour of the Capitol Building and the White House. Jackie Kennedy was staying in the White House and President Nixon introduced me to her. That is when I found out.
Born this year! Those "recollections" are very, VERY good - but much to short.
Michael Shane Tahana Was Born On January 19th, 1968, That's The Year That Michael Tahana Was Born In.
On 7/15,One life to Live debuts.
good vid
I entered the 5th grade in 1968.At my school,half the 5th grade and the entire 6th had more than one teacher.One taught English,reading & spelling.Another taught science,a third taught math,a fourth taught history,and the fifth taught music and art.
THE YEAR I WAS BORN(May 7)!!👶🏾 #Generation X
I was eight, turned nine that year. I remember all of this.
In February of this year I met my future wife. We will have been married 50 years on May 20th, 2022.