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1968: A Year of Turmoil and Change - National Archives
1968 was a turning point in U.S. history, a year of triumphs and tragedies, social and political upheavals, that forever changed our country. In the air, America reached new heights with NASA’s Apollo 8 orbiting the moon and Boeing’s 747 jumbo jet’s first flight. However, all was not well on the ground: the country lost a Navy intelligence ship (USS Pueblo) and two proponents of peace ...
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Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
On This Page The National Archives’ Role in Fulfilling Executive Order 14176 How is the National Archives Making These Records Available? 2025 Release Release Notes Other Records Related to RFK Contact Us President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14176, Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F.
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Military Records Research | National Archives
On This Page Research by Branch Research by War or Conflict Research by Topic Research by Branch Army Navy Marine Corps Air Force Coast Guard Research by War or Conflict The National Archives holds Federal military service records from the Revolutionary War to 1912 in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Military service records from WWI - present are held in the National Military ...
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1968 Electoral College Results | National Archives
President Richard M. Nixon [R] Main Opponent Hubert H. Humphrey [D] Electoral Vote Winner: 301 Main Opponent: 191 Total/Majority: 538/270 Votes for Others George C. Wallace (46) Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (301) V.P. Opponents Edmund Muskie (191), Curtis E. LeMay (46) Notes American Independent Party candidate Wallace received 9,906,473 popular votes for President. Electoral College Votes by ...
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AS-8 - Dec 1968 - Earth Views, Lunar Surface, Interior Spacecraft ...
AS-8 - Dec 1968 - Earth Views, Lunar Surface, Interior Spacecraft Activity This film from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is onboard footage of the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spaceflight to leave the Earth’s gravitational sphere and orbit the moon. The unedited color footage includes the first human-filmed images of the surface of the moon, as well as the ...
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Veterans' Medical and Health Records | National Archives
Filing a Claim for Medical Benefits? The Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF), held at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), are administrative records containing information about the subject's military service history. Many OMPFs contain both personnel and former active duty health records, but the service branches discontinued retiring the health record portion to NPRC in the ...
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Findings on MLK Assassination | National Archives
Findings in the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Introduction: The civil rights movement and Dr. King A history of civil rights violence Equality in education-- the 20th century objective A leader emerges A philosophy of nonviolence 1960: The year of the sit-ins 1963: The year of triumph and despair The road to Memphis The last moments: Memphis, Tenn., April 4, 1968 Introduction ...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers
Background The name of Martin Luther King, Jr., is intertwined with the history of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States. The Montgomery bus boycott, the freedom rides, the Birmingham campaign, the March on Washington, the Selma march, the Chicago campaign, and the Memphis boycott are some of the more noteworthy battlefields where King and his followers ...
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Findings on MLK Assassination | National Archives
Findings on MLK Assassination A. James Earl Ray Fired One Shot at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Shot Killed Dr. King Biography of James Earl Ray The committee's investigation Dr. King was killed by one shot fired from in front of him The shot that killed Dr. King was fired from the bathroom window at the rear of a roominghouse at 422 1/2 South Main Street, Memphis, Tenn. James Earl Ray ...
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Vietnam’s Tet Offensive: 50 Years Later - National Archives
The year 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns and a turning point of the Vietnam War. In late January 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before ...