Media 68

Robert Kennedy

01 - 10 january
11 - 20 january
21 - 31 january

1 january

At the end of December in Turin, Palazzo Campana is evacuated by the police.
[Italy]
Exchange of artillery fire between Israelis and Jordanians on the two banks of the river Jordan.
[Middle East]
Johnson, president of the USA, announces economic measures for sustaining the dollar: they are basically reductions in assistance and investments abroad.
[United States]
A group of dissenting Catholics is stopped and denounced while praying for peace in St Peter's Square on New Year's Eve.
[Italy]

2 january

Chris Barnard carries out in Capetown his second heart transplant (after the first experiment of December '67). The white patient is Phil Blaiberg; the donor is Clive Haupt, mulatto. Blaiberg signed the authorization to use a 'non white' heart.
[Africa]
In Greece released and put under house arrest three generals who on 13 December '67 had supported the "counter-coup" of king Constantine against the Fascist colonels (in power since April '67).
[Greece]
In the Yemen - where the civil war has been raging since '62 - the monarchists lay siege to the capital Sana'a.
[Middle East]

3 january

Fidel Castro announces petrol rationing, both for public and private use, in Cuba.
[Cuba]
USA resumes bombardments of North Vietnam: the suburbs of Hanoi are hit.
[Vietnam]
The plenum of the Central Committee of the Czech Communist Party resumes; the clash is between Stalinists (Novotny) and reformists (Dubcek and Cernik).
[Czechoslovakia]
The Bolivian dictator Barrientos - in Zurich to seek aid against the guerrillas - says that he is ready to exchange freedom for the French intellectual Regis Debray (arrested in Bolivia) with that of Huberto Matos, detained in Cuba.
[Bolivia]
The death is announced of Bert Berns, the author of "Twist and Shout", one of the whites that most influenced the R&B and soul scene.
[Great Britain]
Johnson restores the Commission for control of anti-American activities, responsible for the 'witch hunt' in the period of MacCarthyism.
[United States]

4 january

A Gallup investigation reveals that 45 per cent of those registered with USA trade unions and the majority of veterans are against the war in Vietnam. Anti-USA demonstrations in Stockholm and Kinshasa.
[United States]
Repelled by the Yemenite Republicans the siege against Sana'a.
[Middle East]
North Vietnam states that it is ready to negotiate on condition that the bombardments end; the US Secretary of State, Rusk, is evasive.
[Vietnam]

5 january

"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" is proclaimed record of the year (9 months after its release).
[United States]
In the USA an appeal is launched to free Morton Sobell, condemned to 30 years of prison in the trial that ended with the condemnation to death of the Rosenbergs.
[United States]
Six hours of artillery fire between Jordan and Israel.
[Middle East]
Robert Kennedy and McCarthy, Democratic candidates to the presidency, are for the interruption of bombings on Vietnam.
[United States]
Dubcek replaces Novotny as secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist party.
[Czechoslovakia]
One hundred students suspended from exams for a year at Palazzo Campana. Many non suspended hand in their student cards and declare themselves responsible for the occupation of December.
[Italy]
Tel Aviv announces that for the first time a group of Palestinian guerrillas has penetrated Israel coming from Lebanon.
[Middle East]

6 january

The International Cultural Congress opens in Havana; present are 440 intellectuals from all over the world.
[Cuba]
New York pacifist women's demonstration.
[United States]
The resumption of the trial against Scalfari-Jannuzzi as a result of the revelations (in "L'Espresso"), regarding the "coup" planned by general De Lorenzo in the summer of '64, confirmed in December by numerous testimonies.
[Italy]

7 january

Heart transplant also in the United States, in Palo Alto: the patient is called Mike Kasperak.
[United States]
Referendum of San Francisco Kmps, USA underground station: Dylan president, Joan Baez, secretary of state, George Harrison, ambassador to the UN, the Grateful Dead ministers of Justice, the "king" of LSD Owsley Stanley minister of Commerce.
[United States]
Charged for murder the founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton.
[United States]
The Israeli premier Levi Eshkol talks with Johnson in Texas.
[United States]
The guerrillas of the NLF attack a US base near Da Nang. Taking their cue from an appeal by the Pope, 18 South Vietnamese bishops ask for an end to the bombings of the North.
[Vietnam]

8 january

Attacks in the Gaza strip, occupied since June '67, against Israelis. Retaliation of Israel.
[Middle East]
In Turin first assembly of the representatives of the Universities in protest.
[Italy]
Tried in Moscow four dissidents arrested months before during a distribution of flyers: Ginsburg, Galanskov, Dobrovolski and Vera Lazkova. The trial is held behind closed doors.
[Soviet Union]
The USA ambassador in India, Chester Bowles, arrives in Cambodia for talks with Sihanuk.
[Cambodia]

9 january

The space capsule Surveyor arrives on the moon from where it sends images to the earth. New heart transplant in New York.
[United States]
In Palazzo Campana a nucleus of student-cinema experts is started for using audio-visual instruments in the protests.
[Italy]
The Belgian government invites the USA to cease the bombardments in Vietnam.
[Belgium]
The Israeli premier Eshkol receives assurances regarding military aid from Johnson.
[Middle East]
L'Unità publishes the plans of the Sifar for occupying the RAI station in July '64.In the Senate the debate on the regional electoral law begins; MSI and PLI announce obstructionism.
[Italy]
The information agency of Pathet Lao, the revolutionary organization of Laos, denounces South Vietnamese incursions in Laos.
[Vietnam]
A sixteen year old is condemned to death in the USA for parricide.
[United States]

10 january

Rude Pravo, the daily of the PCC, accuses (without nominating him) Novotny of violations of constitutional rights under his management.
[Czechoslovakia]
Thirty-one non-dissident Soviet intellectuals ask that the hearings of the trial of Ginsburg and the others be rendered public. The day before, the same request led to the arrest of the former general Grigorienko.
[Soviet Union]
The DC is beaten in Parliament over a paragraph of the law on divorce that permits civil dissolution even of religious marriages.
[Italy]
Reopening of the universities: occupied (and immediately evacuated by the police) Palazzo Campana and the faculty of chemistry in Padua. The students of the Experimental centre of cinematography decide to continue the strike that has been on since 13 December.
[Italy]
Van Thieu, president of South Vietnam, announces that for the Tet (lunar new year at the end of January) a cease-fire of only 48 hours will be observed.
[Vietnam]
The director Antonioni announces the beginning of the filming of "Zabriskie Point" which will use the acid rock of the Pink Floyd, Kaleidoscope, Grateful Dead, Young Blood.
[Italy]
Luis Block, the last patient with a new heart, dies.
[United States]
Arrested in Greece the leader of the left Spiros Karas.
[Greece]

Robert Kennedy		01 - 10 january 11 - 20 january 21 - 31 january
1 january		At the end of December in Turin, Palazzo Campana is evacuated by the police. [Italy] Exchange of artillery fire between Israelis and Jordanians on the two banks of the river Jordan. [Middle East] Johnson, president of the USA, announces economic measures for sustaining the dollar: they are basically reductions in assistance and investments abroad. [United States] A group of dissenting Catholics is stopped and denounced while praying for peace in St Peter's Square on New Year's Eve. [Italy]
2 january		Chris Barnard carries out in Capetown his second heart transplant (after the first experiment of December '67). The white patient is Phil Blaiberg; the donor is Clive Haupt, mulatto. Blaiberg signed the authorization to use a 'non white' heart. [Africa] In Greece released and put under house arrest three generals who on 13 December '67 had supported the "counter-coup" of king Constantine against the Fascist colonels (in power since April '67). [Greece] In the Yemen - where the civil war has been raging since '62 - the monarchists lay siege to the capital Sana'a. [Middle East]
3 january		Fidel Castro announces petrol rationing, both for public and private use, in Cuba. [Cuba] USA resumes bombardments of North Vietnam: the suburbs of Hanoi are hit. [Vietnam] The plenum of the Central Committee of the Czech Communist Party resumes; the clash is between Stalinists (Novotny) and reformists (Dubcek and Cernik). [Czechoslovakia] The Bolivian dictator Barrientos - in Zurich to seek aid against the guerrillas - says that he is ready to exchange freedom for the French intellectual Regis Debray (arrested in Bolivia) with that of Huberto Matos, detained in Cuba. [Bolivia] The death is announced of Bert Berns, the author of "Twist and Shout", one of the whites that most influenced the R&B and soul scene. [Great Britain] Johnson restores the Commission for control of anti-American activities, responsible for the 'witch hunt' in the period of MacCarthyism. [United States]
4 january		A Gallup investigation reveals that 45 per cent of those registered with USA trade unions and the majority of veterans are against the war in Vietnam. Anti-USA demonstrations in Stockholm and Kinshasa. [United States] Repelled by the Yemenite Republicans the siege against Sana'a. [Middle East] North Vietnam states that it is ready to negotiate on condition that the bombardments end; the US Secretary of State, Rusk, is evasive. [Vietnam]
5 january		"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" is proclaimed record of the year (9 months after its release). [United States] In the USA an appeal is launched to free Morton Sobell, condemned to 30 years of prison in the trial that ended with the condemnation to death of the Rosenbergs. [United States] Six hours of artillery fire between Jordan and Israel. [Middle East] Robert Kennedy and McCarthy, Democratic candidates to the presidency, are for the interruption of bombings on Vietnam. [United States] Dubcek replaces Novotny as secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist party. [Czechoslovakia] One hundred students suspended from exams for a year at Palazzo Campana. Many non suspended hand in their student cards and declare themselves responsible for the occupation of December. [Italy] Tel Aviv announces that for the first time a group of Palestinian guerrillas has penetrated Israel coming from Lebanon. [Middle East]
6 january		The International Cultural Congress opens in Havana; present are 440 intellectuals from all over the world. [Cuba] New York pacifist women's demonstration. [United States] The resumption of the trial against Scalfari-Jannuzzi as a result of the revelations (in "L'Espresso"), regarding the "coup" planned by general De Lorenzo in the summer of '64, confirmed in December by numerous testimonies. [Italy]
7 january		Heart transplant also in the United States, in Palo Alto: the patient is called Mike Kasperak. [United States] Referendum of San Francisco Kmps, USA underground station: Dylan president, Joan Baez, secretary of state, George Harrison, ambassador to the UN, the Grateful Dead ministers of Justice, the "king" of LSD Owsley Stanley minister of Commerce. [United States] Charged for murder the founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton. [United States] The Israeli premier Levi Eshkol talks with Johnson in Texas. [United States] The guerrillas of the NLF attack a US base near Da Nang. Taking their cue from an appeal by the Pope, 18 South Vietnamese bishops ask for an end to the bombings of the North. [Vietnam]
8 january		Attacks in the Gaza strip, occupied since June '67, against Israelis. Retaliation of Israel. [Middle East] In Turin first assembly of the representatives of the Universities in protest. [Italy] Tried in Moscow four dissidents arrested months before during a distribution of flyers: Ginsburg, Galanskov, Dobrovolski and Vera Lazkova. The trial is held behind closed doors. [Soviet Union] The USA ambassador in India, Chester Bowles, arrives in Cambodia for talks with Sihanuk. [Cambodia]
9 january		The space capsule Surveyor arrives on the moon from where it sends images to the earth. New heart transplant in New York. [United States] In Palazzo Campana a nucleus of student-cinema experts is started for using audio-visual instruments in the protests. [Italy] The Belgian government invites the USA to cease the bombardments in Vietnam. [Belgium] The Israeli premier Eshkol receives assurances regarding military aid from Johnson. [Middle East] L'Unità publishes the plans of the Sifar for occupying the RAI station in July '64.In the Senate the debate on the regional electoral law begins; MSI and PLI announce obstructionism. [Italy] The information agency of Pathet Lao, the revolutionary organization of Laos, denounces South Vietnamese incursions in Laos. [Vietnam] A sixteen year old is condemned to death in the USA for parricide. [United States]
10 january		Rude Pravo, the daily of the PCC, accuses (without nominating him) Novotny of violations of constitutional rights under his management. [Czechoslovakia] Thirty-one non-dissident Soviet intellectuals ask that the hearings of the trial of Ginsburg and the others be rendered public. The day before, the same request led to the arrest of the former general Grigorienko. [Soviet Union] The DC is beaten in Parliament over a paragraph of the law on divorce that permits civil dissolution even of religious marriages. [Italy] Reopening of the universities: occupied (and immediately evacuated by the police) Palazzo Campana and the faculty of chemistry in Padua. The students of the Experimental centre of cinematography decide to continue the strike that has been on since 13 December. [Italy] Van Thieu, president of South Vietnam, announces that for the Tet (lunar new year at the end of January) a cease-fire of only 48 hours will be observed. [Vietnam] The director Antonioni announces the beginning of the filming of "Zabriskie Point" which will use the acid rock of the Pink Floyd, Kaleidoscope, Grateful Dead, Young Blood. [Italy] Luis Block, the last patient with a new heart, dies. [United States] Arrested in Greece the leader of the left Spiros Karas. [Greece]