{"id":135796,"date":"2018-01-10T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135796"},"modified":"2018-01-11T22:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T05:35:38","slug":"fifty-years-ago-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/fifty-years-ago-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years Ago This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s gobsmacking to me that it’s fifty years since 1968.<\/p>\n

Here are some significant news photos from that very turbulent year, which saw protests in the US and abroad (many of them violently suppressed), continued battle in Vietnam, two nation-shaking assassinations, and a US presidential campaign.<\/p>\n


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\n50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1968<\/a><\/span>
\nA half-century ago, much of the world appeared to be in a state of crisis, with protests around the world, the Vietnam War, and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy. But there was some progress to be found as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s gobsmacking to me that it’s fifty years since 1968. Here are some significant news photos from that very turbulent year, which saw protests in the US and abroad (many of them violently suppressed), continued battle in Vietnam, two nation-shaking assassinations, and a US presidential campaign. 50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at … Continue reading “Fifty Years Ago This Year”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,83,740],"tags":[1406,1408,1407],"class_list":["post-135796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-media-photography","category-race-racism","tag-1406","tag-kennedy","tag-mlk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1968-black-protest-i-am-a-man.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/now-this-was-a-political-debate.html","url_meta":{"origin":135796,"position":0},"title":"Now THIS was a political debate","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Sep-16 11:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I have to confess, watching William F. 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