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Movie history events from 1968
Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker born. (Hill Valley, CA) (Back to the Future)
Future diamond-smuggler Danny Archer is born. (Rhodesia) (Blood Diamond)
Born on the 4th of July. (Born on the Fourth of July)
Bryan Johnson dies of leukemia. (Dogma)
The Dreamers. (The Dreamers)
Full Metal Jacket. (Full Metal Jacket)
A Soviet satelite is destroyed during a rescue mission, containing pictures of US and Soviet missle silos. (Drift Ice Station Zebra) (Ice Station Zebra)
Three US astronauts are trapped in Earth orbit with 43hrs of oxygen after spending 5 months in an orbital lab. (Earth Orbit) (Marooned)
Rhonda, future sister of future lyricist and plant-waterer Sophie Fisher, is born. (Music and Lyrics)
Freddy Krueger is released on a legal technicality; vigilante parents burn Freddy alive in his Boiler Room; Amanda Krueger, driven insane after the trial, hangs herself, but her body is not found. (A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child)
Richard Nixon at Republican Convention. (Miami) (Nixon)
Faith gets the name of her soulmate, Damon Bradley, from a fixed ouija board. (Pennsylvania, PA) (Only You)
Beloved children's TV show marionette Froggie-Doo is stolen. Brothers Eliot and Rocky Plumm and their neighbor Haley DuBois team up to find it. (Montana) (A Plumm Summer)
Fank Castle was born in 1968, not '63. midread tombstone. sorry. (The Punisher)
Beverly D'Onofrio marries Ray Hasen becuase she is pregnant with his child; her friend Faye tells people she is also pregnant. (Conneticut) (Riding in Cars with Boys)
Dan Freeman becomes the first black man to work for the CIA. (Virginia) (The Spook Who Sat by the Door)
January: The film is in two halves, Marine training in the US, Marines in action in Vietnam. We know that the fighting in the latter half takes place in Hue so this places events in late January 1968, the time of the communist Tet offensive. For some reason you also have 1963 listed for this film. The only reason for this could be the assumption that the training sequence takes place in '63. There is no evidence for this in the film that Im aware of. Its more likely that the first half is set in 1967, though this is never said. (City of Hue, South Vietnam) (Full Metal Jacket)
Monday 1st January: Sgt Barnes murders a Vietnamese woman, and his platoon burns their village. (Vietnam) (Platoon)
Monday 1st January: The theoretical Zodiac killer confides to a colleague about his plans. (Zodiac)
Saturday 13th January: Johnny Cash performs at Fulsome Prison. (Represa, CA) (Walk the Line)
Thursday 1st February: Richard M. Nixon announces his candidacy for the U.S. Presidency. (Nixon)
Saturday 10th February: Laura Tollins is born. (The Number 23)
Wednesday 14th February: Lara Croft born. (Wimbledon, London) (Tomb Raider)
Thursday 22nd February: June Carter finally accepts Johnny Cash's marriage proposal, live on stage. (Ontario, Canada) (Walk the Line)
Tuesday 5th March: Ruth Marks (or Angela Bennett) is born. (The Net)
Saturday 16th March: Robert F Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States. (Bobby)
Thursday 4th April: Martin Luther King assassinated. (Bobby)
Sunday 7th April: Zombie apocalypse begins as living dead begin to rise and devour the flesh of the living. . (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) (Night of the Living Dead)
Saturday 13th April: Kate Mosley is born. (Picture Perfect)
Tuesday 16th April: Edna Ferber dies. (New York City) (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
Saturday 1st June: Helen Keller dies. (Westport, Connecticut) (The Miracle Worker)
Sunday 2nd June: Lorenzo Carcaterra released from the Wilkinson Home for Boys. (Sleepers)
Monday 3rd June: Andy Warhol shot by Valeria Solanas. (Bobby)
Monday 3rd June: Le Duc Tho, a member of the North Vietnam Communist Party's Politburo, joins the North Vietnamese negotiating team as a special counsellor. (Paris, France) (Kissinger and Nixon )
Tuesday 4th June: Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy awaits primary results; Diane Huber marries William Avery to prevent him going to Vietnam; Paul Ebbers sacks Timmons and has his affair with Angela discovered by wife Miriam. (Ambassador Hotel, LA) (Bobby)
Wednesday 5th June: Robert F Kennedy wins the California Presidential Primary, and is shot after delivering his victory speech. (Bobby)
Wednesday 5th June: Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, after winning the California presidential primary. (Los Angeles, California) (Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War)
Thursday 6th June: Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy dies in hospital. (Los Angeles) (Bobby)
Saturday 8th June: Robert F. Kennedy is buried. (Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia) (Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis )
July: Virginia Fallon plays a series of shows. (Las Vegas) (Bobby)
Saturday 13th July: Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York reveals a four-stage peace plan that, he argues, could end the war in six months if North Vietnam assented to it. (Nixon)
Tuesday 5th November: Richard Nixon elected U.S. President. (Nixon)
Sunday 10th November: Death of James Lister in the Bailey scandal, pushing Noodles out of retirement towards murder. (Once Upon a Time in America)
Tuesday 24th December: Frank Cross meets Claire Phillips for the first time. (Scrooged)