Was 1968 America’s Bloodiest Year in Politics?

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    Apr 6, 2018

Was 1968 America’s Bloodiest Year in Politics?

    Matthew Dallek

War. Assassinations. Riots. Violent protest clashes. America was certainly no stranger to political violence, but 1968 appeared to bring the bloodletting to new heights.

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Two short years after 1968, the year the United States endured a series of cataclysmic episodes of politically tinged bloodletting, historian Richard Hofstadter observed that “Americans certainly have a reason to inquire whether…they are not a people of exceptional violence.”

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