One of those "I'm Hard at Work" posts
specifically, I'm finishing up the Imperial airship saga. In the meantime, have these Life -culled images. In 1969, student protests had moved from being against things (like the Vietnam war) to disrupting campuses and making demands. In May, Life got a smattering of comments from the students themselves - including a rather familiar face who'd just got her undergrad from Wellsley College - Since we're on politics - 1968 was a hell of a year. Hubert Humphery was the Democratic candidate, but the Democratic party had fractured, thanks mostly to the war in Vietnam. He got the nomination at the infamous 1968 democratic convention, where even Life describes the police "rioting" against the many protesters. There were many protesters as the youth wing supported Eugene McCarthy and late-comer Bobby Kennedy - until the latter was assassinated. The democratic side was even more fractious as the segregationist George Wallace was running as a Democrat as well. A stra...