New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was on the presidential campaign trail as a Democratic candidate when he was fatally shot on this day in history, June 5, 1968, by an assassin at the Ambassador Hotel ...

Red, white and bruising: at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, conflicts within the hall were amplified in violence on Chicago’s streets. AP Images Theodore Roosevelt giving a campaign speech.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- If you remember 1968 you have to agree with the Chicago History Museum that that one 12-month period changed the world, the country, Chicago and all of us who lived through it. There ...

Almost fifty years ago, on March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson stunned everyone by announcing that he would not run for a second term as President. Johnson had gone on television at nine o’clock that ...

On this day in history, July 20, 1968, athletes competed in the first Special Olympics International Games — the largest sporting event for people with intellectual disabilities today, according to ...

In 1968, tensions ran high across the United States. The year was marked by major movements for social and political change, as well as tragedies such as the assassinations of civil rights leader ...

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The afternoon of November 7, 1968 was just another normal Thursday afternoon in Fairview for four-year-old Dwain Lankford — until two pistol-wielding men walked into the Fairview branch of the ...

When 15-year-old Terry Pierce left Longview’s 4th of July celebration at Lake Sacajawea in 1968, he took the Hemlock Street footbridge. The old wooden structure creaked under the mass of people ...