![]() ![]() The draft is actuated in the mid-1960s and deferments were hard to get. The My Lai massacre is revealed, further darkening the tragedy in Vietnam, and America teeters on the edge of revolution. ![]() American astronauts land on the moon and safely return to earth. Troy faces increasing dangers as the Vietnam War widens into Cambodia and Laos. Daisy leaves Stanford to work also in Bobby’s campaign. Mick joins the Paris student street battles, then returns to the US to work in Kennedy’s presidential campaign. Senator Eugene McCarthy enters the Democratic presidential race against Lyndon Johnson, followed by Bobby Kennedy, who goes on to win the California Democratic primary. Students protesting the War take over American universities, and street battles in Paris nearly topple the French government. Martin Luther King is shot, and riots rage in 130 burning American cities. ![]() The 1968 Tet uprising plunges America deeper into the abyss of Vietnam. ![]()
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