The 1968 Exhibit: Category - Presidential Campaign
Use the links below to explore the themes and topics from 1968.
March | Month
March Record numbers of baby boomers flood college campuses and take to the streets as anit-war protesters and political campaign workers. Suddenly everyone is talking about hippies, the sexual... Read More
Presidential Campaign, Protests, YouthJune | Month
June Just after winning the Democratic presidential primary in California, New York senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, and the nation reels again from "violence shock". Read More
Presidential Campaign, TragedyJuly | Month
July "America: Love it or leave it" becomes the battle cry of a resurgent conservative movement. Support booms for segregationist politicians George Wallace and Lester Maddox, and for the "Law-... Read More
Presidential CampaignNovember | Month
November The bitter presidential race concludes in November with a narrow popular vote victory by Republican nominee Richard Nixon over Democrat Hubert Humphrey. Independent candidate George Wallace... Read More
Presidential Campaign, PoliticsTV Guide, August 3-9, 1968: Upcoming political conventions | Covering 1968: Blog
"Covering 1968" will not strive to adhere to an "on this day in 1968" pattern--but this particular cover of TV Guide just fell into my lap, and the coincidence of dates was... Read More
Media, Presidential Campaign, TelevisionSenior Prom Aftermath | Reflection
My date for our high school senior prom was simply a good friend, a smart, nice-looking, quiet guy named Jim who, as I look back, was a nerd, even though that word wasn't... Read More
Presidential Campaign, High School Graduation, Reflections on 1968, Politics, Everyday Life, YouthClean for Gene | Reflection
1967: Martin Luther King, Jr., was called a traitor for opposing the Vietnam War. Young men were burning their draft cards. Anti-war demonstrations, increasingly violent, swept the... Read More
Presidential Campaign, College Life, Reflections on 1968A crossroads | Reflection
In June of 1968 I was a 21 year old woman graduating from college with a math degree; that choice of a degree says it all. I wanted to break out of the traditional female stereotype, yet I was firmly... Read More
College Graduation, Presidential Campaign, Reflections on 1968, Counter - Culture, Politics, Tragedy, Everyday LifeHip to be Square | Reflection
In July of 1968, I was a thirteen year old who had just moved to what it turned out was one of the hot spots of countercultural activity in the Sixties. My parents rented a homey two story place near... Read More
Presidential Campaign, Reflections on 1968, Pop Culture, Everyday Life, YouthI was there (sort of) | Reflection
In 1968, I worked for the Chicago Police Department (as a noncombatant). I had worked there for several years, joining it after the reform superintendent O.W. Wilson had come in and I naively... Read More
Presidential Campaign, Protests, Reflections on 1968, Everyday LifeHumphrey-Nixon | Reflection
I went to a catholic grade school on the edge of northeast Minneapolis. Obviously every kid in my class was for Hubert Humphrey. But I grew up in a very conservative household that was for Nixon. I... Read More
Conservatism, Presidential Campaign, Reflections on 1968, YouthRamparts: the Chicago convention issue, September 1968 | Covering 1968: Blog
RAMPARTS, September 1968 The editors and publishers of Ramparts–one of the most important voices of the American left in the 1960s–spent much of the first months of 1968 preparing for... Read More
Media, Presidential Campaign, ProtestsRonald Reagan in 1968 | Covering 1968: Blog
Ronald Reagan runs for President, and Norman Mailer has a few things to say. The Reagan Centennial We are approaching the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald... Read More
norman mailer, Presidential Campaign, presidential politics, Republican National Convention, ronald reagan, PoliticsMy watershed year working for Gene in New Hampshire | Reflection
I worked for Gene McCarthy in NH, campaigning and feeding the "clean for Gene" kids. Noone seems to recall that a Republican and military hero, General Gavin, was the first antiwar candidate. Though... Read More
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