1968- Did anyone watch the History Channel last night

[big john]

Didn't have to watch it, I lived it. What I remember about 1968
was that it was a very violent year.

[dawgfan]

http://www.history.com/minisite.do?cont ... i_id=54488

I am going to record from here on

[Wino you know]

I watched it AND I lived it when it happened.
I was 16, a junior in high school, and the biggest crisis in my life at that time was that the Beatles were about to become a thing of the past. (Never mind the fact that, in just over two years, I'd be half a world away getting my sorry bu.tt shot at).
The Vietnam tet offensive didn't really mean too much to me because, as far as I was concerned, I didn't know anybody there at that time, and, whenever I heard anyone mention Vietnam, to me, they may as well have been talking about another galaxy. However, I DID get it right when I said how all the idiot war protesters had their America-hating heads up their dumb a$$es.

The King & Kennedy assassinations made me sick and angry.

Of course, I followed the manned space program with undying ardor from the very beginning, so when Apollo 8 made the first journey to the moon that Christmas, I was glued to the TV set like a sheep on Hillary's a$$.

And even though I wasn't a fan of the Detroit Tigers, I was really happy when Denny McLain became baseball's first 30 game winner since Dizzy Dean did it 34 years prior.
And I even got to like the New York Jets, for God's sake.

It was nice to watch that on the history channel because, as it turned out, 1968 became sort of a watershed year for me after the previous year ended up being one of the best, if not THE best, of my life.

As for which is better/which is worse, I do think things today are much MUCH worse than in 1968.
And yes, I blame the spoiled brat baby boomers and the generations that have followed them.
It just seems people today have little or no appreciation of those that went before them.

All that being said, however, I'm actually FLATTERED that so many younger people have taken an intrest in that show.

[Big Red Parrothead]

My high school history teacher always referred to 1968 as "the year America had more history than it could swallow."

[Skibo]

I think it is running again tonight on the History Channel. Check your local listings for times.

[Conolulu]

Watched this last night......It was interesting watching it almost 40 yrs after living it....

I turned 15 that year and had a hippie Civics teacher....She was thrilled that so much went on ....Good thing they didn't have CNN then or she would have had a television in the classroom all the time....

Arlo Guthrie cracked me up......when he talked about appreciating a glass of whiskey these days......

I still have the newspapers from when Martin Luther King , and Bobby Kennedy were killed......

Interesting watching your life from a historical perspective...

[citcat]

Well, it brought back memories, that is for sure. It was the year after my brother died and I wasn't a very happy girl to say the least. I was a junior in high school and didn't pay much attention to news, I had enough stress in my life and I certainly didn't need more. But there were good times too, that's what I like to remember. Since it's over and done with, you understand.

[Wino you know]

Well, it brought back memories, that is for sure. It was the year after my brother died and I wasn't a very happy girl to say the least. I was a junior in high school and didn't pay much attention to news, I had enough stress in my life and I certainly didn't need more. But there were good times too, that's what I like to remember. Since it's over and done with, you understand.

Yes, I do understand. I was there too. But it is nice that you're able to remember some of the good times too.