The Time Machine stops in 1968 this time. It was a tumultuous year with the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Music was more important than ever with releases from artists like the Rolling Stones & James Brown. Marvin Gaye had one of the biggest songs of the year. Glen Campbell recorded another "city song," while Simon & Garfunkel hitchhiked across America. Janis Joplin made her final album with Big Brother and the Holding Company before embarking on a solo career. There was friction in the Beatles camp, but they still persevered with The White Album. The Byrds went country, and an Otis Redding song became the first ever posthumous single to top the pop charts. There was chaos in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, and Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their black-gloved fists on the podium at the Olympics. Apollo 8 became the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit, and Boeing introduced the Jumbo Jet. It's all 1968, our year on Time Machine from The Current.

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