One Crazy Summer

1968

Grant T. Smith, Ph.D. Professor

Designed by Carolyn Hanoski, Administrative Assistant

The Price Was Right!

• Gallon of gasoline – 34 cents

• Average cost new home – $14,950

• Movie ticket – $1.50

• Big Mac – 49 cents

• Snickers candy bar – 10 cents

• First class stamp – 5 cents

• Minimum wage – $1.60 ($7.21)

Demographics

• Population USA – 200,706,000

• President – Lyndon B. Johnson

• Federal debt – $369 billion

• 60 Minutes begins on CBS

• Album of year – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles)

• Apollo 8 orbits the moon

Vietnam War

• Combat fatalities in Vietnam reaches 30,057• Troop levels in Vietnam increase to 540,000• Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive• The United States and North Vietnam open

peace talks in Paris• President Johnson halts all bombing in North

Vietnam

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http://thewall-usa.com/

Politics

Violence

• South Carolina State College

• Assassination Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Assassination Robert F. Kennedy

• Occupation of Alcatraz Island

• Civil Rights Demonstrations

• Race Riots

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Social Causes• Cesar Chavez

• Civil Rights

• Vietnam War / Draft

• Women’s Liberation

http://www.ufw.org/

Civil Rights Act, 1964

Civil Rights Act, 1968

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1968 Top Films

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Bullitt • Planet of the Apes • Rosemary's Baby

• Funny Girl • The Lion in Winter• Romeo and Juliet• Oliver• Rachel, Rachel

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1968 Music“I Heard It Through The Grapevine” - Marvin Gaye

“Hey Jude” - Beatles

“All Along The Watchtower” - Jimi Hendrix

“Dock Of The Bay” - Otis Redding

“Mony Mony” - Tommy James & the Shondells

“Jumpin' Jack Flash” - Rolling Stones

“Born To Be Wild” - Steppenwolf

“White Room” - Cream

“Sympathy For The Devil” - Rolling Stones

“Revolution” - Beatles

Who Are They??

Rita Williams-Garcia