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.

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 ...

New BuzzFeed Series Uses Social Media To Retell American History "Future History: 1968" is a new mobile docu-series from BuzzFeed News that chronicles one of America's most formative years through ...

Socialist Worker continues our series marking the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary year of 1968 with an article that tells the story of the French May. IN MAY 1968, the British business magazine ...

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 ...