{"id":9249,"date":"2018-11-01T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/library\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2022-07-26T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T19:01:13","slug":"on-display-at-smith-library-1968-fifty-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/library\/2018\/11\/01\/on-display-at-smith-library-1968-fifty-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"On Display at Smith Library: 1968 \u2013 Fifty Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"To many historians, anniversaries are important. \u00a0To the rest of us, with the possible exceptions of birthdays and wedding anniversaries, maybe not so much!\u00a0 The selection of a range of years to emphasize can sometimes seem arbitrary.\u00a0 Picking 2018 as a marker does provide us the significant anniversary of the end of World War I.\u00a0 We will soon reach the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month and mark the centenary of 1918 on 11\/11\/2018.\u00a0Going back another 100 years takes us to 1818 and the bi-centenary of the first publication of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus<\/em><\/a> by Mary Shelley, recently celebrated by Trae Middlebrooks in his blog posting<\/a> and with a display in Smith Library.<\/p>\n

Going back fifty years takes us back to 1968 \u2013 spoiler alert \u2013 a memorable year for lots of bad reasons.\u00a0 In many ways, it was a year full of hate.\u00a0 But twelve months of violence and discord started and finished with book-ends of hope.\u00a0 Following the end of World War II, the state of Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Soviet Union, imposing communist rule on an unwilling populace.\u00a0 In January 1968, hope was promised when First Secretary Alexander Dubchec tried to loosen the restrictive grip that the Soviets held over the Czechs.\u00a0 What became known as \u201cthe Prague Spring\u201d became an experiment in social reform, as the Czechs started to resist their oppressors.\u00a0 As we will see, it was not to last.<\/p>\n

Events in the Vietnam War were ever-present during 1968.\u00a0 January saw events take a savage turn for the worse with the start of two bloody engagements, including the battle of Khe Sahn and the Siege of Hue, ending six and three months later respectively.\u00a0 At home in the US, as well as in major capital cities around the world, protestors were ramping up opposition to the war.\u00a0 In early March, French students in Paris were arrested after protesting the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Strikes followed, culminating in riots in May and ending with the election of Charles de Gaulle as President of France.<\/p>\n

At home, the violence continued.\u00a0 In April, Revd. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN.\u00a0 American cities burned and riots followed all over the country.\u00a0 Two months later a bullet took the life of Robert \u201cBobby\u201d Kennedy.\u00a0 The younger brother of slain President John F. Kennedy, Bobby was himself campaigning to be president when he was assassinated in San Francisco. \u00a0Bobby\u2019s death would clear the way for Richard Nixon to become US President in November \u201968, defeating Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Held in Mexico City, the 1968 summer Olympics, were memorable for both sporting and political reasons.\u00a0 In the men\u2019s high-jump, American Dick Fosbury demonstrated for the first time a revolutionary new way of going backwards over the bar, so creating the \u201cFosbury flop\u201d.\u00a0 Bob Beamon smashed the world long-jump record, with a massive jump of 26\u2019 6\u201d.\u00a0 But the headlines around the world were grabbed by Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200 meters.\u00a0 Gold medalist Tommie Smith (pictured center) and bronze medalist John Carlos (pictured right) raised their black-gloved hands on the medal podium following their race, in solidarity with the Black Freedom Movement.\u00a0 Their heads bowed, it was a symbol seen all over the world.<\/p>\n

Oscar-winning movie titles in 1968 reflected tensions in American society.\u00a0 Rod Steiger\u00a0won best actor for his portrayal of a prejudiced policeman in the film In the Heat of the Night<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Katherine Hepburn won best actress, in another movie dealing with relations between races, in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?<\/a>\u00a0 <\/em>Three other titles released in \u201968, all stood out as being very different: The Graduate<\/a>; <\/em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em><\/a> and Bonnie and Clyde<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Czech liberalizations begun with such hope in the \u201cPrague Spring\u201d in January \u201968 were abruptly quashed in August, when Russian and Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia, with tanks and soldiers rolling back all the freedoms won since January.\u00a0 The Czechs would not become free again until after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.<\/p>\n

So, where was the book-end of hope to close out the violence and aggression of 1968?\u00a0 On Christmas Eve, Apollo 8 mission astronaut William Anders, took a photograph from the far-side of the moon that was to become one of the most iconic pictures of the twentieth century.\u00a0 Titled \u201cEarthrise\u201d, the photo shows planet earth suspended in the blackness of space, with the moon in the lower foreground.\u00a0 This one photo showed mankind the fragility of our place in the cosmos, and that it was possible to see an \u201cearthrise\u201d in a fresh and different way.<\/p>\n

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You can find (and check out) the materials mentioned in this post on display on the main floor of Smith Library.<\/p>\n

-by Andrew Fair, Evening Reference Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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