Well stated truth. And the three TV broadcasting networks and all the major newspapers wholehearted joined in the effort by misinformation, out right lying, and spiking of true news of that pivotal year.
The same held true with the Communist funded and led riots in Europe at the time. At the time I thought, how convenient that just as one event was dying down another sparked up elsewhere
So called student protests, black riots, Chicago Dem convention riots were all falsely presented in prime time and by design were meant to fan the flames of revolt. Add to that our domestic bombings of that era.
These were people of my father's and grandparents’ generation! Where were they educated and who educated them? Answer: In Prog dominated schools by Prog teachers and communist sympathizers.
Where did Walter Cronkite and Walter Duranty get their educations?
The rot in education started long before 1968.