How Transformative Was 1968?

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Susan Lewis

Published June 24, 2013 at 8:17 AM EDT

The musical Hair opened on Broadway, and 2001: A Space Odyssey was at the movies. It was also in 1968 that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, and 14,000 American military personnel died in Vietnam.

A transformative year across American culture, 1968 is explored in a new exhibition that's now on view at the National Constitution Center. The 1968 Exhibit runs through September 2nd, 2013.

http://youtu.be/xPLg5gA-9ck

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Listen to Susan’s interview with Brian Horrigan.

http://youtu.be/VcTzrkH4s2A

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Susan Lewis

Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She’s host and producer of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She’s also been a regular host of WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.

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