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So many violent events took place:

1) assasination on Martin Luther King 2) assasination of Bobby Kennedy

3) Vietnam War getting very hot (Tet Offensive) and division within USA

4) Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

5) Protests, strikes, and riots everywhere in the world

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16y ago

Senator Kennedy's assassination, King's assassination, the Chicago Riot(s), the TET offensive in Vietnam...the siege at Khe Sanh, etc.

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