My '68: A College Reporter's Memoir of a Turbulent Year

by William G. Armstrong Jr.

There was no year like 1968. Draft calls summoned young men to fight in Vietnam alongside 500,000 troops already there. President Johnson opted not to seek re-election rather than face anti-war candidates Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy. When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April, cities exploded. Bill Armstrong, a reporter for The Daily Kent Stater, covered the primary campaigns of Sen. Kennedy and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, worked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517114268
• ISBN13: 9781517114268
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"