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ABC broadcasts coverage of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico. This is the first Summer Olympics to be telecast in color in the United States. October 14 First live television broadcast from a spacecraft in orbit, during the Apollo 7 mission. There are six broadcasts during the eleven-day mission. October 19
The event is photographed by Eddie Adams. The photo makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, and sways U.S. public opinion against the war. The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form Penn Central, the largest ever corporate merger up to this date.
January 5 – Gardeners' World on BBC1 in the UK (1968–present) January 22 – Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In on NBC (1968–1973) February 19 – Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on National Educational Television (1968–2001) April – Audubon Wildlife Theatre on CBC (1968–1974) May 18 – The Prisoner has its U.S. premiere on CBS
Columbia University’s graduating class of 1968 was no stranger to protests. The college years of its student body were marked by the anti-Vietnam War movement and the fight for civil rights.
October 1968 events in North America (4 C, 2 P) November 1968 events in North America (4 C, 1 P) December 1968 events in North America (3 C, 1 P) C.
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The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, which were predominantly characterized by the rise of left-wing politics, [1] anti-war sentiment, civil rights urgency, youth counterculture within the silent and baby boomer generations, and popular rebellions against military states and bureaucracies.
Twenty-three years since the day that changed everything. Since that impossibly blue sky on a crisp autumn morning. Since the first plane. Then the second plane.