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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
Fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania, a 22-year-old from
Illinois named Donald Morrison landed a job at TIME in New York
City and was searching for an apartment on the Upper West Side.
This otherwise ordinary venture happened to occur in the
extraordinary year of 1968. And so Morrison, looking for a Columbia
University student willing to share his digs, found himself instead
stranded inside Hamilton Hall just as campus activists took over
the building. To escape, Morrison recalls, "I dived out a bathroom
window in the back."
Twenty years later, we tapped Morrison for the job of bringing
that tragic, pulsating, mythical year into perspective for our
first TIME pictorial collector's edition, 1968: The Year That
Shaped a Generation. A true child of the '60s, Morrison, now
special projects editor, had even planned to spend his honeymoon
at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, until his bride-to-be
put her foot down. In 1968, he says, "we tried to capture something
of the year's amazing, compelling electricity."
On your newsstand and at other outlets through March for
$3.95,* 1968 recaptures familiar and forgotten images in an
indelible 112-page eyewitness to history. "A lot went past me at
the time," recalls picture editor Suzanne Richie, who was 24 years
old and living in Minnesota in 1968. But poring over 4,000 photos
to make her final selections of 150 images, she felt "a shock of
recognition and then the realization -- my God, all this happened
in 1968?" Like her, you will rediscover the astonishing roller
coaster of events, from the tragic (Robert Kennedy's vacant stare
from the floor of the Los Angeles hotel pantry) to the trivial (a
miniskirt dotted with peace symbols). Incredibly, to those of us
who lived through that tumultuous year, today's 20-year-olds study
the events of 1968 in their history classes. Art director Christine
Castigliano was only nine years old the first time around. But for
her the complex year is captured dramatically by the special
edition's cover image: two daisies and a bullet. The stark contrast
"showed how jarring a time it was," she says. "I wanted to
symbolize the energy and the explosiveness."