The Daily News looks back at 1968 and how some of those events have echoed down through the years.

Still rocking the boat: 1968
America at a turning point
A right turn

Still rocking the boat: 1968
America at a turning point
A right turn

America at a turning point - 11/14/2008: WE MUST REFLECT ON THE DECISIONS WE MADE IN '68

By HARRIS WOFFORD, hlwofford@aol.com 215-854-5907 Former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford was special assistant to President John F. Kennedy on civil rights, a friend and unofficial adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and member of Robert F. Ke

Harris Wofford says: There are years when the upward movement in human affairs goes way up and changes the course of our country for the good, or the down times that go far down and change our nation's course for the worse.

Forty years ago, 1968 became one of those years when the downward move was deep and long-lasting.
When music erased boundaries - 11/13/2008: By STEPHANIE FARR, farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225

Daily News Special Report: While fault lines were opened by racial tensions, gender gaps and the Vietnam War in 1968, it was through music that people found themselves on the same solid ground.
Fashions make a comeback - 11/13/2008: DRESSES, HEELS FROM '60S ARE SHOWING UP 40 YEARS LATER

By DAFNEY TALES, talesd@phillynews.com 215-854-5084

FORTY YEARS after the London King's Road style made many a girl channel her inner Twiggy, similar fashions have come around again - only with 21st century charm.
Flip side of 'free love' - 11/13/2008: A 'HORROR' AWAITED THE UNFORTUNATE

By ANONYMOUS, Special to the Daily News

I GOT PREGNANT the day Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, but put off an abortion until after finals.
Bobby Seale's still cookin': Black Panther founder and Chicago 8 defendant sees echoes of '68 in '08 - 11/12/2008: By DAVE DAVIES, daviesd@phillynews.com 215-854-2595

IT WASN'T EASY getting former Black Panther Bobby Seale on the phone for an interview, because of his latest confrontation with the government.
'The year the world got small' - 11/12/2008: By ZACK STALBERG, zstalberg@seventy.org 215-557-3600

Former Daily News editor Zack Stalberg recalls the turbulence of 1968, his decision to join the Army after graduating from college and what he learned while serving the country.
The whole world was watching: Claude Lewis remembers the 1968 Chicago police riot - 11/12/2008: By CLAUDE LEWIS, clewis97@ptd.net 215-854-5907

DURING THE final week of August 1968 I was a young reporter in Grant Park, in Chicago. I was there to cover the Democratic National Convention. By the time the opening ceremony had ended, I made a silent promise to myself: If I survive this police riot, I will never return to the Windy City.
Gang of writers: How a teen paper documented life in the 'hood - 11/11/2008: By KITTY CAPARELLA, caparek@phillynews.com 215-854-5880

A WEEK after I began organizing Dig This, a teenage newspaper in Francisville, a social worker tipped me off: "Oh, you're working with the Morroccos gang."
Raised fists felt round the world - 11/11/2008: Stan Hochman: Tommie Smith and and John Carlos' famed gold medal protest at the 1968 Summer Olympics still resonates today. Americans flinched when race, sports and politics careened into a three-way intersection without traffic lights.
Obama & RFK, peas in a pod? - 11/11/2008: READING Thurston Clarke's "The Last Campaign," a detailed account of RFK's 1968 run for president, I'm struck by similarities between back then and now.