BLOCKBUSTER CRIMES Violence an bloodshed
Mar 11, 2021
2 minutes
It was summer 1968, and the US was still reeling from the April assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
The Vietnam War was worsening.
Millions of young men were being drafted to fight, with 1,000 dying every month.
And with an upcoming presidential election, the country was in turmoil.
President Lyndon B Johnson was quickly becoming unpopular for his pro-Vietnam War policies.
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