The year 1968 was by any measure a bad one for America. Two of our nation's leaders were assassinated—Senator Robert Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Following King's murder, riots swept ...

The Will County Coroner's Office released a major development in a half-century-old cold case. On Thursday, the office released the name of the woman who was murdered in the county in 1968. During ...

Fifty years ago, J. Morris Anderson asked his daughters, ages 5 and 7, what they wanted to be when they grew up. “Miss America!” they said, without missing a beat. Anderson, a black Philadelphia ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou announced on Wednesday that his government will be "reexamining" a 1968 migration pact which has historically made it easier for Algerians to settle in France.

The classic car in these photos looks like a 1968 Ford Mustang. But look beyond the timeless exterior lines and you’ll see this Mustang is much more than it appears to be. To understand what you’re ...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s heyday of the American muscle car, Dodge delivered some of the fastest and most powerful vehicles on the road, with the Charger, Challenger and certain other underrated ...

Mexico City — Calling herself a “child of 1968,” Mexico’s newly inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum issued a formal apology Wednesday for one of the country’s most notorious episodes — the brutal ...

CHICAGO — The whole world was watching, but this time, it liked what it saw. No cops clubbing protesters. No convention floor fist fights. No sprawling encampments taking over Grant Park. In the end, ...

The whole world is watching. They want to see what unfolds this week in Chicago as Democrats convene their quadrennial political convention and anoint Vice President Harris as their 2024 ...

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During the 1968 Democratic National Convention, young anti-war demonstrators swarmed the monument to Gen. John Logan in Chicago’s Grant Park. At least a half dozen climbed atop the statue, waving ...

First, a little context. In early spring of 1968 the country was in turmoil. The unpopular war in Vietnam was raging. Protests and riots abounded on college campuses and in cities large and small. A ...