The most turbulent time in Our American history

According 2 (CNN)- A president with low approval ratings. Tensions between the US and North Korea. Athletes protesting racial injustice. Bitter divisions threatening to rip our country's social fabric apart.

Sound familiar? But we're not talking about 2018.

All this happened 50 years ago, in 1968.

Echoes of that year, considered by many the most turbulent in modern US history, can be found in today's headlines about President Trump, social protests and shocking acts of gun violence. Our country has changed immensely -- the internet, a black president, same-sex marriage -- since then. And yet, some things feel eerily similar.

"Yes, it's a continuation," says Charles Kaiser, author of "1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation," about parallels between 1968 and now. "We're certainly still fighting many of the same battles."

Here are five of them.

Our embattled president was warring with the media

President Lyndon B. Johnson on the phone in the Oval Office in January 1968.

Lyndon B. Johnson, thrust into the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, enjoyed widespread support during his first years in office. But by the summer of 1968, his approval rating had plummeted to 35%.

The main reason was the war in Vietnam, which was going increasingly poorly. The North Vietnamese's Tet Offensive earlier that year had dashed any hopes for a swift end to the war. Americans' appetite for the conflict was waning, and anti-war protesters filled the streets of US cities.

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