1960-1969

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http://youtu.be/_zY_cM0_6vA For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. While The Beatles were singing: “Love, love me, do,” Peter, Paul, and Mary -along with Joan Baez – were spreading the Word according to Bob Dylan. While they paved the way with the, in retrospect, surprisingly gentle “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Dylan went on […]

At first it was Meet The Beatles, but shortly it was “Have you seen the Stones?” Staring at you were five Englishmen, unsmiling, even stranger than The Beatles. Brian Jones! With his long hair to his shoulders. Jagger’s lips! Of all of them Brian leaped off the page at me. If the fellow I saw […]

For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. At first it was Meet The Beatles, but shortly it was “Have you seen the Stones?” Staring at you were five Englishmen, unsmiling, even stranger than The Beatles. Brian Jones! With his long hair to his shoulders. Jagger’s lips! Of all of them Brian leaped […]

In 1968 I am twenty-two, living in London, not clear what I am going to do with my life, but trying to write, and working part time with autistic children in St. John’s Wood. Jon is in London on a Guggenheim fellowship and is the London correspondent for Rolling Stone. When Jon was first introduced […]

“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 […]

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 […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R4yv63TaAI&feature=youtube_gdata_player Hyde Park had been the largest outdoor concert ever held but within months it was eclipsed by Woodstock. There the up-and-coming, down-and-out, long-haired, freaky, and high, all showed up and for four days camped outside and listened to the music. Except for the Big Three (Dylan, The Stones, The Beatles), everyone who was anyone […]

For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. 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 […]

“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 […]