RARE 2LP SET:WNEW NYC PRESENTS 1968 THE YEAR IN REVIEW

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Originally broadcast on WNEW Radio, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />New York on December 29, 1968 and again on January 1, 1969.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

RARE 2 LP SET: WNEW Presents 1968: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

These are the sounds of an extraordinary year, captured by WNEW microphones in New York and Metromedia Radio News around the globe.

These are the sounds of a year of transitions, a year of final chapters - a year of sudden shifts of power and unexpected tragedies.

A somber year with little comic relief. A year in which we seemed so often to lose control of events on earth, but at the end, found ourselves with the Moon in our grasp.

Now that 1968 is over, it remains for future generations to make sense out of all the heartbreak, passion and confusion of this turbulent year.

Meanwhile, WNEW invites you to pause for a few moments, think back and remember....

1968: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Jan. 2 - Bialberg/new heart

Jan. 9 - Surveyor lands on moon

Jan. 16 - Taxi strike hits New York

Jan. 20 - Bonnie & Clyde a smash

Jan. 23 - Pueblo...with crew of 83...captured by North Koreans

Jan. 31 - Communists launch TET offensive in Vietnam

Feb. 3 - Sanitation men strike...New York is a mess

Feb.10 - Peggy Fleming in France

Mar. 8 - New Archbishop for NY

Mar. 12 - McCarthy upset in N.H.

Mar.16 - Kennedy enters the race

Mar. 26 - Yuri Gagarin killed

Mar. 31 - Johnson drops out

Apr. 3 - Hanoi agrees to talk...Paris will be the sight

Apr. 4 - Dr. Marin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, TN...nation mourns

Apr. 9 - Memorial service held

Apr. 7 - Washington riots

Apr. 10 - Changes in Vietnam

Apr. 26 - Goldberg quits U.N.

Apr. 30 - Rocky runs at last

Apr. 30 - Columbia University student sit-in...over new gymnassium...leads to campus revolt

May 4 - Dancers Image wins/loses

May 7 - Lurleen Wallace dies

May 13 - Resurrection Ciy is born in Washington

May 14 - Nebraska: Kennedy wins

May 15 - Paris: students and workers strike leads to general strike, France paralyzed

May 27 - Scorpion lost

May 28 - Oregon: McCarthy wins

June 1 - Helen Keller dies

June 3 - Andy Warhol shot

June 4 - California: Robert Kennedy wins California primary election, but his triumph turns to tragedy, Sirhan apprehended, Nation mourns, Services held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and at Arlington National Cemetery.

June 14 - Dr. Spock convicted

June 16 - Biatra           

July 1 - Welcome to Cuba

July 3 - Central Park sniper

July 10 - Air traffic jam-up

July 29 - Birth control message

Aug. 5 - Miami Beach: Republican National Convention, Ronnie starts a ripple, Rocky rocks the boat but floor revolt fizzles, Nixon's the one and (surprise) Spiro Agnew is the other one

Aug. 21 - Revolt in Eastern Europe. The sweet smell of freedom across the Iron Curtain. Tanks invade Prague but the aroma lingers

Aug. 26 - "Welcome to Chicago, Richard J. Daley, Mayor", Political blood spills at the Amphitheatre, real blood spills on

September 9-30...October 1-31

November 1-18 - New York City school teachers strike and settle and strike and settle and strike again.

Sepember 16 - Henry Barnes dies

September 17 - George Wallace and Curtis LeMay run on American Independent Party ticket

September 26 - Francine Gottfried

October 10 - World Series, Detroit Tigers win over St. Louis Cards, McClain and Lolich heroes

October 11 - Wally Schirra, Tom Stafford, John Young - "From the Beautiful Apollo Room high atop everything!" Our first space triple header all systems GO!

October 19 - Police slow-down

October 20 - Lord Harlech torpedoed by a Tanker, Jackie becomes "The Face that Married a Thousand Ships," Queen of Skorpios

October 24 - Firemen slow-down

November 5 - the Hubert Humphrey Politics of Joy almost carry the day but the "loser" is a winner in one of the closest contests ever. No debates, little controversy, just smoothy efficient power politics and Richard Nixon heads for the White House. The defeat of 1960 is forgotten. Dick and Pat, Tricia and Julie come home to Washington.

November 28 - Jets Champs

December 1 - Hong Kong flu

December 12 - Tallulah Bankhead dies

December 15 - Fuel oil strike

December 21 - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders rewrite the history books on Christmas Eve. "In The Beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth...! From the earth to the moon and back with pinpoint accuracy. Everything perfect from lift off to splash down. Like the first step of an infant, man's first step into the void of outer space....Jules Verne was right!