News
Mass protests lead to political liberalization in Czechoslovakia. Known as the "Prague Spring" the movement is ended when the Soviet Union sends in troops to stop the reforms.
1968 Context: News, Entertainment, Lifestyle
News
American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in the Black Power salute on the medal stand at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
News
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King is gunned down on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee.
Television
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In is a sketch comedy show that debuts on NBC Television in 1968 and runs for five seasons. "The Girls From Laugh-In" is the title of this photo from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
News
Running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, Robert Kennedy is assassinated shortly after winning the California Primary.
News
Richard Nixon is the Republican candidate for President in 1968 and is elected President in November, defeating Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey.
News
Any illusion that the US and their South Vietnamese allies are winning the war in Vietnam, are shattered as the Viet Cong launch the Tet Offensive with a series of successful surprise attacks.
Television
Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner are the hosts of 60 Minutes, a news magazine show that debuts on CBS in 1968 and continues to air today.
News
Pulitzer prize winning photo of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngọc Loan executing Viet Cong soldier Nguyen Van Lem during the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam.
News
Civilians killed in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by US troops. The deaths of over three hundred unarmed men, women and children led to charges against 26 U.S. soldiers.
News
Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of former US President John Kennedy, marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
News
Anti-War protests at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention turn violent.
Advertising
Detail from Yamaha motorcycle advertisement.
Advertising
Detail from Schlitz beer advertisement.
Fashion
Detail from 1968 women's fashion shoot.
Fashion
Detail from 1968 men's fashion brand Botany 500 advertisement.
Fashion
Detail from 1968 women's fashion photo shoot.
Movies
Mia Farrow in a scene from the psychological horror film Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski.
Movies
The science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey is released in 1968, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Movies
Charlton Heston and Linda Harrison in the 1968 Sci-Fi film Planet Of The Apes.
Entertainment
The off-Broadway counter culture musical Hair moves to Broadway in 1968 complete with drug references, anti-war sentiment and a nude scene.
Lifestyle
Real photo of 1968 beach scene.
Lifestyle
1968 American high school group posing on a fire truck.
Lifestyle
1968 family Christmas with Big Wheels - these low riding plastic tricycles were the latest thing at the time.