In 2018, we looked back fifty years, to a defining moment for the United States: 1968. We spoke with Coloradans whose lives were touched by some of the most tumultuous moments of a trying year, from the March on Washington to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the at times-violent Democratic National Convention to Marlin Briscoe's football legacy, even the rise of zombies in pop culture and Anthony Ruptak's cover of the music of the time.
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