BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7e4a05868b9bab96e355901fbaeea7b42440 CATEGORIES:Enrichment Series- Open to the Public SUMMARY:1968: A Personal Account of a Turbulent and Terrifying Year LOCATION:The Nineteenth Century Club\, 178 Forest Avenue\, Oak Park, IL 60301\, Unit ed States DESCRIPTION:
1968: A Personal Account of a Turbulent and Terrifying Year
Nineteenth Century member Brian Flora gives a personal account of 1968. It was his intensely-lived and vividly-remembered Annus Horr ibilis, a year that he experienced "up close and personal". In May he graduated from a liberal arts college near Boston. By September, he was a young draftee on his way to Vietnam. The horrific war, shown on the night ly news, was at its awful peak. Antiwar protests occurred daily on campuse s and in the streets. The assassination of Martin Luther King and Bobby Ke nnedy were followed by massive and often violent race riots across the coun try. In August, Brian was tear gassed at the Chicago Democratic Convention . Nixon won the election. Throw in the social turmoil: Free Love, drugs, Flower Power, Women's Lib, Haight Asbury and more.
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CONTACT:Jeanne Schultz Angel, jangel@nineteenthcentury,org, 708-386-2729 DTSTAMP:20240329T115918 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190218T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190218T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR