Our Homes are Half a Century Old This Year! They were built in the Turbulent year of 1968
1968 was a challengingly historical year for those moving into the newly constructed community. Just a reminder: when you need the water shut off for plumbing repairs, you need to call Ten years later, Courtyards of Three Fountains Condominiums were created. Here are eight events that the original tenants were talking about and reading about that year.
January 23: North Korea captures the USS Pueblo. When North Korea captured the American surveillance ship USS Pueblo, it sparked an 11-month crisis that threatened to worsen already high Cold War tensions in the region.
January 30: North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive against the United States and South Vietnam In many ways, the bloody Tet Offensive signified the beginning of the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
April 4: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the second floor balcony of room 306 at the Lorraine Motel when he was struck by a bullet at 6:01 p.m.
June 5: Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles. Just two months after Dr. King, Robert Kennedy was gunned down by an assassin at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
September 30: Boeing introduces the first 747 "Jumbo Jet". When demand for air travel reached sky-high levels in the 1960s, the world's then-largest passenger aircraft – the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet – was a game changer.
October 16: U.S. athletes take a stand at the Summer Olympics. During the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, two black athletes staged a silent demonstration against racial discrimination in the United States.
November 22: "Star Trek" airs American television's first interracial kiss. Enterprise Capt. James Kirk, a white man played by William Shatner, was forced to kiss Nichelle Nichols' character, Lt. Nyota Uhura, a black woman was a controversial part of the episode’s script.
December 24: Apollo 8 is the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon. On Christmas Eve, three astronauts circled the moon 10 times. Jim Lovell, Bill Anders and Frank Borman became the first human beings to travel to the moon.