GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
ALTAMONT 1969
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THE BEATLES ON THE ROOF “GET BACK” 1969
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THE BEATLES “WHEN I’M 64” 1967
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FRANKIE AVALON & ANNETTE FUNICELLO 1963
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NAZIS INVADE RUSSIA 1941
In June 1940 Germany invaded France, and in the United States peacetime conscription was introduced. Then in June 1941 Hitler invaded Russia, at which point Russia became became our ally. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders.
RODNEY KING RIOTS – LOOTING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6S-wTidqVs&feature=youtube_gdata_player Every so often the turmoil of politics and the excess of America’s racism would flare. In 1991 the footage of Rodney King beatings blanketed the LA airwaves, and I felt I was once again as if I was witnessing the American South in 1962 or the riots in Watt). But despite the horror of […]
CLINTON’S AFFAIRS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4frlpvJPZp0&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLL1XJC5k5o&feature=youtube_gdata_player And so I became involved again. I sent money, signed petitions, and sent emails (the new technology in town). I had never, since the Vietnam War, seen the country so polarized. For all of 1998 it was as if the U.S. dialogue was almost exclusively about Bill Clinton’s blow job. It was Amusing […]
JIMMY CARTER’S ENERGY ADDRESS 1977
The tumult of the Sixties seemed long gone. Ronald Reagan had settled into his Presidency. After Nixon’s resignation, Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President. Viewed through the lens of a parliamentary democracy – as I learned from my years in England – Gerald Ford as leader of the House Majority would have […]
WATERBOARDING
In 2011 a Senate debate on water boarding revolved around a hypothetical dilemma offered to the witness: somewhere in a U.S city a terrorist has a nuclear weapon and the only way to get the information to stop it is through the use of torture. Although a measured response to the leading question would go […]
KEN GORMLEY “DEATH OF AMERICAN VIRTUE” 2010
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