Denver’s History Colorado Center Presents ‘The 1968 Exhibit’ Through May 10 [GALLERY]

What do you remember from the year 1968?

The History Colorado Center in Denver will help jog your memory with their '1968 Exhibit' running through Sunday, May 10.

'The 1968 Exhibit' includes a donated Vietnam-era 'Huey' helicopter, a camera used to photograph Senator Robert Kennedy on the night he was shot and killed, Jimi Hendrix's purple jacket and boots and a talking Mrs. Beasley doll. (Remember Mrs. Beasley? She was Buffy's favorite on the TV show 'Family Affair')

The museum has living rooms set up that took me right back to my childhood growing up in the 1960's. Walter Cronkite delivering the news on the TV, lots of harvest gold and avocado colors and on the tables, plenty of ashtrays and those big glass grapes that everybody seemed to have.

Some of my other favorite '1968' exhibits include the multi-colored patchwork pants and The Beatles' memorabilia including 'Ringo for President' buttons.

It was a very turbulent year in the US with protests against the Vietnam War and for civil rights. There were two major assassinations; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sen. Robert Kennedy. Then toward the end of the year there was the Presidential election and Apollo 8 capturing a photo of our planet Earth.

Take a trip back in time at 'The 1968 Exhibit' running through May 10 at the History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway, in Denver. (Across the street from the Denver Art Museum) Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors, $8 for children 6 to 12 years old and those 5 and under are free.