HISTORY

“Martin Luther King had a dream. We had a dream, and it was, almost literally it sometimes seemed, a dream of a return to the Garden of Eden. It was a dream reinforced by visions, visions made immensely real through LSD. Because these were shared visions, there seemed little reason to doubt their authenticity. The […]

“But his (Truman’s) judgement is cavalier seriously underestimating, as it does, the American capacity for intolerance. It unleashes within America a series of witch hunts that last for a decade. The “Communist threat”, the “Red Scare”, the “Communist Conspiracy” all, in some real measure, overwhelm the sanity Truman took for granted. “Almost all states introduced […]

“On March 5th 1946, Winston Churchill – whose mother was an American – spoke at Westminster College in Missouri and described the position in which the United States now found itself. “For with this primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. As you look around you, you must feel not […]

http://youtu.be/Rn4f9KO3wRk “The unceasing and apparently unstoppable violence causes a sense of unreality to take hold. Time slows down, crawls to a halt, as when on drugs, and I pity the poor bastards on LSD. Still, somehow, and I have no idea how, the show lurches toward an end. I hear the opening chords of “Street […]

“Back in America, 1969. When the year began, the American troop strength in Vietnam was reaching its peak: 550,000 men. Thirty thousand Americans had been killed and more than 20,000 others would be. In the previous year, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy had both been assassinated. At the Chicago Democratic National Convention had […]

‘Drugs. With America tearing itself apart, split down the middle about everything, everybody pointing a finger at everybody else, there was no way anyone in the counterculture was about to admit that drugs were a problem. Drugs were what first turned a lot of people on. The nightmare consequences of marijuana as conjured up by […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvSXc4WU8c&feature=youtube_gdata_player “Back in America, 1969. When the year began, the American troop strength in Vietnam was reaching its peak: 550,000 men. Thirty thousand Americans had been killed and more than 20,000 others would be. In the previous year, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy had both been assassinated. At the Chicago Democratic National Convention […]

For FULL SCREEN click in video bar. “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, […]

When the men returning from the war found wives, they cut to the chase and formed families. That meant babies and plenty of them. Between 1946 and 1950 20 million babies were born in the USA. But what to do with them? How to care for them? What to feed them? How to raise them? […]

When the War ended the soldiers came home looking to take up with their pre-war lives or start new ones. One of the first things they looked for were American girls like this one, Norma Jeane Dougherty, who had been ” working in the Radioplane Munitions Factory, mainly spraying airplane parts with fire retardant and […]