The Times They Were a-Changin'An award winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politicsfor readers of Heather Cox Richardson. If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964or rather, the long 1964, from JFK's assassination in November 1963 to mid 1965was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of "American,"