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DFW

(54,365 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 10:11 AM Aug 2014

Echoes from 1968: "The whole world's watching!"

Images from Ferguson, MO are not taking days, but rather seconds to circle the world.

People who don't like us say, "so what else is new?"

People who like us are asking, "WTF is going on over there?" THAT one is getting hard to answer, and I've spent most of my adult life finding answers for that every time it gets asked by our friends overseas. The whole world IS watching.

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Echoes from 1968: "The whole world's watching!" (Original Post) DFW Aug 2014 OP
As one who lived through 1968, 2014 seems to have much in common. Good call gordianot Aug 2014 #1
RFK visited Detroit in 1968 MinM Aug 2014 #2

MinM

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2. RFK visited Detroit in 1968
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 10:43 AM
Aug 2014
@MichiganHist: Senator Robert Kennedy touring 12th st area affected by riot - 5/1968 Detroit News pic (WSU Lib) #DetroitHistory

Andrew Kaczynski @BuzzFeedAndrew · This NYT front page from August 14, 1965.

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