I was in the military and an adult in the 60’s and could write a thesis on the era. Much more violence and turmoil than recently. Between the anti-war riots, JFK, MLK, and Bobby Kennedy murders, winding down of Jim Crow, and a myriad of other issues, it was a shitshow. Kent State kind of marked the end of the bulk of it as I recall. Big difference between then and now is that democrats and republicans were pretty much on same team and law enforcement was not held back.
I remember all of those, plus the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1968. Mayor Daley, the rioting, the firehoses…