The Years I Was 21: The '68 Election

By August of 1968, there were several trains of unrest in the country on a collision course just looking for a place for the wreck to happen. Racial tensions had been exacerbated by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and protests against the Vietnam War were increasing in frequency and intensity. Young men were burning their draft cards, while a few were even leaving the country to avoid being drafted into the military. And the assassination of Robert Kennedy foreshadowed a conflict that would unfold in the ensuing decades and have international consequences.