After reading through newspaper articles for the year 1968, I realized that the year was quite an eventful one. Politically, socially and economically speaking, the country endured a great deal of influential circumstances. Although the studying of vast articles from the New York Times succeeded in painting a clear, factual picture of that turbulent year, I was still eager to discover how incidents affected people growing up in that era. This fueled my motivation to begin …showed first 75 words of 2100 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2100 total…After using oral history, I could put myself in the shoes of those who experienced the memorable year of 1968. I feel that without the use of oral history in a project of this sort, one will never obtain the necessary quantitative information needed to internalize events studied. Although I was not a part of the year 1968, I am lucky enough to now comprehend the impact the year had on society as I know it today.