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September 2017 Huntley Film Archives Newsletter
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Counterculture 1968

It is fast approaching 50 years since the momentous events that shook the world in 1968.
Here's a recap of the year from the Huntley Film Archives.


Assassinations, Civil Unrest & Vietnam War Demonstrations
In the U.S. the assassinations of Martin Luther King (MLK) and Robert Kennedy occurred.
The death of MLK is announced.
Robert Kennedy's response to MLK's death.
Just two months later Senator Robert "Bobby" Kennedy is murdered in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile in politics, Johnson declined to stand for re-election and the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago was dramatic with Hubert Horatio Humphrey sealing the Democratic nomination.
1968 also saw Black Panther, Eldridge Cleaver lecture at Berkeley.
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Anti Vietnam War protests &
Massacre in Orangeburg

1968 In Europe

In Czechoslavakia, the naive optimism of the Prague Spring gave rise to reality by August, as the neighbours drove their tanks over the borders. Russian tanks in Prague.
Several months earlier saw a volatile period of civil unrest in France as student demonstrations and public rioting erupted in Paris in May 1968 (see below).

 
Student demonstrations lead to rioting in Paris.
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Riot police near the Sorbonne.
 
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