America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (TRIH ep 509, part 2)
1968 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Martin Luther King Jr.'s final months, focusing on his Poor People’s Campaign, the Memphis sanitation strike, and his assassination on 4 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1968
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- The Beatles (1960)