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Two days after U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announced his interest in beginning peace talks to end the Vietnam War, North Vietnam's official government radio station responded that "The North Vietnamese government declares its readiness to send its representatives to make contact with U.S. representatives to decide with the U.S. side the unconditional cessation of bombing and all other war ...
8–19 April. Operation Norfolk Victory was a 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment clear and search operation in Nghĩa Hành District, Quảng Ngãi Province. the operation resulted in 43 PAVN/VC and five U.S. killed. [22] 8 April to 31 May. Operation Toan Thang I was a US and ARVN operation conducted between 8 April 1968 and 31 May 1968 ...
[38] [39] [27] [40] On April 5, Johnson wrote a letter to the United States House of Representatives urging passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act. [31] The Rules Committee, "jolted by the repeated civil disturbances virtually outside its door," finally ended its hearings on April 8. [41]
1968 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.
Garment workers listen to King's funeral service on a portable radio (April 9, 1968) On April 8, King's widow Coretta Scott King and her four young children led a crowd estimated at 40,000 in a silent march through the streets of Memphis to honor King and support the cause of the city's black sanitation workers. [52]
Here’s what happened next. Chelsea Bailey, CNN. May 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM. Columbia University’s graduating class of 1968 was no stranger to protests. The college years of its student body were ...
April 4 Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In response, riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterward. Apollo Program: Apollo 6 is launched, the second and last uncrewed test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle. April 5 – Robert F. Kennedy gives a speech at the ...
The 1968 Kansas City riot occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, in April 1968. Kansas City became one of 37 cities in the United States to be the subject of rioting after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.