1960-1969

Imcomplete 6-10-12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQbR4_ZAizM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) FROM AMERICAN STORY: “…The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, the Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 […]

  Next door to my house on Peel Street. The Winsdor Castle became my “local.” In the summer I could hear the sound of people talking and drinking in the garden behind the pub. It seemed so European and exotic to me. It was in this pub that I ordered a scotch to calm my […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. Of course by the time of the younger George Bush-Al Gore debates both the candidates and their campaigns were acutely aware of the power of television, and they approached the debates defensively. Gore rated himself: “In the the first […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. Bush’s opponent in the general election was Vice President Al Gore. Their debates were interestingly reminiscent of the Kennedy-Nixon debates wherein, famously, the people who listened on radio thought that Nixon had won, while those who watched on TV […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. We are all, by now, familiar with the images that would accrue during the Sixties: tear gas, dogs and beatings in the American South, King’s March on Montgomery, angry whites cursing blacks in Chicago, Watts burning, students protestors incinerating […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. We are all, by now, familiar with the images that would accrue during the Sixties: tear gas, dogs and beatings in the American South, King’s March on Montgomery, angry whites cursing blacks in Chicago, Watts burning, students protestors incinerating […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. “Despite being extensively documented in historical scholarship…. much of what passes for history and conventional thinking is actually the public memory preserved for us by the mass media” writed Edward Morgan What Really Happened to the 1960s. “(And they) […]