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March to May 1968: Global Turmoil Moves in U S
A chronology of 1968 events across the United States and world from March to May including Civil Rights advances, Vietnam actions, student protests, political campaigns, assassinations, and international crises. Notable items: Johnson-Nixon NH primary, Westmoreland troop requests, King’s murder aftermath, Paris and Prague unrest, labor strikes, and Columbia clashes.
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Senate
Gen. Westmoreland
Vietnam
Warsaw
U.S
Johnson
Richard Nixon
New Hampshire
McCarthy
National Airlines
Havana
Robert Kennedy
Israel
North Vietnam
Sargent Shriver
France
Antonin Novotny
Dresden
Czechoslovakia
Indiana
Ludvik Svoboda
Chicago
New York
Stockholm
Hanoi
Eugene McCarthy
Wisconsin
Nixon
King
Washington
National Guard
Detroit
Boston
Khe Sanh
Pierre Trudeau
Liberal Party
Baltimore
Martin Luther King
Memphis
U.S. Supreme Court
Atlanta
Creighton Abrams
House
President Johnson
Honolulu
Edna Ferber
New York City
FBI
Eric Starvo Galt
Galt
James Earl Ray
South African Airways
Columbia University
Arthur Goldberg
U.N
Humphrey
Nelson Rockefeller
GOP
Paris
Ralph Abernathy
Resurrection City
U.S.A
Robert F. Kennedy
Nebraska
E. Kimmel
Pearl Harbor
Sorbonne
Nantes
Afl-Cio
United Auto Workers
de Gaulle