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Column: The period in American history when astronauts were rock stars
Harris Blackwood
Harris Blackwood
The year 1968 was a turbulent time in our country. There were race riots, as well as the Vietnam War. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. A few months later, Robert Kennedy, former U.S. senator, was shot in a hotel in Los Angeles. A few hours later, he was dead.