It is hard to cover a year where so many dramatic events occurred, as with 1968, without becoming superficial.The program mostly limits itself to what happened here in America (except for one reference to the Mexico City Olympics and a bit toward the end on Paris and Prague) though the argument could be made that in order to understand this particular year you need to grasp the sense of worldwide rebellion which would even include things like the ongoing Cultural Revolution in China.The show also fails to clarify why 1968
was a turning point,as opposed to other years in the decade of the 196os.But I like the way Brokaw highlights the less well known Orangeburg massacre that February where 3 students were killed by police, 3 years before the more famous Kent State killings.The footage of the train carrying Senator Robert Kennedy,s body from New York to DC, with crowds gathered all along the way to pay their respects, is especially moving.