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Brand/Publisher: The Saturday Evening Post.
Issue date: March 9, 1968 (241st year, issue no. 5); original newsstand price 35¢; softcover illustrated news and feature magazine in English.
Cover story presents a mock front page from \'The Washington Globe\' headlined \'Bobby Kennedy Sworn In as the Acting President ... it could happen,\' accompanying Russell Baker\'s political essay \'The picking of the President, 1968.\'
Editorial content highlights 1968 U.S. politics and culture, including civil rights, the presidential election, and contemporary entertainment and sports.
Feature articles include Harry Edwards\' \'Why Negroes Should Boycott Whitey\'s Olympics,\' Stewart Alsop on Nelson Rockefeller\'s presidential moment to decide, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne\'s \'Waiting for Morrison,\' Thomas Meehan\'s profile of Vanessa Redgrave, Rebecca Morris\'s \'The Believer,\' Edward Linn\'s look at basketball star Oscar Robertson (\'There\'s no telling how high he can go\'), and John Kobler\'s NST piece.
Fiction section features the conclusion of Agatha Christie\'s \'Endless Night,\' alongside editorial departments such as letters, cartoons, \'Post Scripts,\' and more.
Period advertising showcases brands and promotions including Viceroy cigarettes back cover art, AT&T/Bell System long-distance service, Allstate, American Oil motor club offers, and a Nat King Cole \'Forever Yours\' record album set from Capitol Music Treasury.
Classic 1968 Saturday Evening Post issue of interest to collectors of Robert F. Kennedy memorabilia, 1968 presidential election history, civil rights scholarship, and vintage sports or advertising ephemera.
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