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Today on Your Call: How did 1968 change American history?

On today's Your Call, we’ll talk about the year 1968 and why it was such a watershed moment.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4th, 1968.  In the same year: The Tet Offensive killed tens of thousands in Vietnam.  Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.  Women threw their bras into a public trash can to protest the Miss America Pageant.  Apollo 8 orbited the moon.  A current exhibit at the Oakland Museum highlights the events of 1968.  How did they change the fabric of our society?  What do you remember about 1968?  Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org.  What can we learn today from the victories and the setbacks of 1968?  It’s Your Call with Holly Kernan, and you.

 

Guests

Clayborne Carson, professor of history at Stanford University; director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute; and director of the King Papers Project

Louise Pubols, senior curator of history for the Oakland Museum of California

Resources

YouTube: Dr. King’s Final Speech-- “I’ve been to the Mountaintop”

Oakland Museum of California: “1968”

Stanford-based Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Research and Education

Immanuel Wallerstein

 http://vimeo.com/36771412

 http://www.newleftreview.org/A2420

Matt Martin was KALW’s general manager from 2006 through 2018. Under his leadership, KALW grew into one of the most productive and innovative stations in public radio. Programs launched at KALW during Matt’s tenure as GM include the award-winning local newsmagazine Crosscurrents, the design podcast 99% Invisible, and the Spanish-language narrative journalism program Radio Ambulante. He helped create the station’s Audio Academy, a year-long program aimed at developing new talents in public radio, and led the first broad-based strategic planning process in the station’s history.