1968
9 verified events recorded in 1968.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-11-05 | Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment Richard Nixon · Kevin Phillips · H.R. Haldeman · George Wallace · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason Richard Nixon · Anna Chennault · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1968-08-01 | Robert Maxwell's Secret KGB Meeting Coincides with Czechoslovakia Invasion Planning Robert Maxwell · Yuri Andropov · KGB · Oleg Gordievsky · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1968-06-17 | Supreme Court Rules 1866 Civil Rights Act Bans Private Housing Discrimination U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph Lee Jones · Alfred H. Mayer Company | confirmed | |
| 1968-06-05 | Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory Robert F. Kennedy · Sirhan Sirhan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · LAPD | confirmed | |
| 1968-04-11 | Fair Housing Act Passes After MLK Assassination Overcomes National Association of Real Estate Boards Decades of Opposition President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · National Association of Real Estate Boards · National Association of Realtors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-04-04 | Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers Martin Luther King Jr. · James Earl Ray · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Memphis Police | confirmed | |
| 1968-03-16 | My Lai Massacre - U.S. Soldiers Murder Between 347 and 504 Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians in War Crime Lieutenant William Calley · Captain Ernest Medina · Charlie Company 1st Battalion 20th Infantry Regiment · Hugh Thompson Jr. (helicopter pilot who intervened) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-03-01 | Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash Kerner Commission · Governor Otto Kerner Jr. · President Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon | confirmed |