One Crazy Summer 1968 Grant T Smith Ph

One Crazy Summer 1968 Grant T. Smith, Ph. D. Professor Designed by Carolyn Hanoski, Administrative Assistant

The Price Was Right! • • Gallon of gasoline – 34 cents Average cost new home – $14, 950 Movie ticket – $1. 50 Big Mac – 49 cents Snickers candy bar – 10 cents First class stamp – 5 cents Minimum wage – $1. 60 ($7. 21)

Demographics • • • Population USA – 200, 706, 000 President – Lyndon B. Johnson Federal debt – $369 billion 60 Minutes begins on CBS Album of year – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles) • Apollo 8 orbits the moon

Vietnam War • • Combat fatalities in Vietnam reaches 30, 057 Troop levels in Vietnam increase to 540, 000 Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive The United States and North Vietnam open peace talks in Paris • President Johnson halts all bombing in North Vietnam

Politics

Violence • • • South Carolina State College Assassination Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Robert F. Kennedy Occupation of Alcatraz Island Civil Rights Demonstrations Race Riots

Social Causes • • Cesar Chavez Civil Rights Vietnam War / Draft Women’s Liberation

Civil Rights Act, 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1968

1968 Top Films • 2001: A Space Odyssey • Bullitt • Planet of the Apes • Rosemary's Baby • • • Funny Girl The Lion in Winter Romeo and Juliet Oliver Rachel, Rachel

1968 Music “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” - Marvin Gaye “Hey Jude” - Beatles “All Along The Watchtower” - Jimi Hendrix “Dock Of The Bay” - Otis Redding “Mony” - Tommy James & the Shondells “Jumpin' Jack Flash” - Rolling Stones “Born To Be Wild” - Steppenwolf “White Room” - Cream “Sympathy For The Devil” - Rolling Stones “Revolution” - Beatles

Who Are They? ?

Rita Williams-Garcia