Ed Driscoll writes at PJ Media about the pivotal year of 1968. He links to an article written in January of this year by Peter Dreier in The Huffington Post. Dreier shows how Martin Luther King began his civil rights career focusing on the plight of "Negroes," but evolved into a person who wanted to build a coaliton between blacks and low income whites, and also became very much anti-war. He wanted a "better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children."
Of course, 1968 is remembered for the murders of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy, the riots at the Democratic Convention, and Richard Nixon's election. But, what about the Apollo 8 flight in December of that year, when men left Earth's gravitational field for the first time? Apollo 8 culminated with the Christmas Eve reading from Genesis by the crew
“And God said, Let the waters under the Heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas, and God saw that it was good.” Borman paused, then concluded: “And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with goodnight, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.
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