> I don't know who on this thread was around in '68.

I remember it vividly. It was quite as you say and possibly worse.

Even in the early '70s there was Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, a Native American showdown with police, and fringe claims that Watergate either proved no US administration could be trusted or that "the liberals" were trying to engineer a coup. Violent crime in big cities was setting new records.

"If you liked the '60s, you weren't really there."