1960-1969

1960-1969 STATIC TEXT

NIXON’S SILENT MAJORITY INCOMPLETE

by Ethan Russell

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KEN KESEY’S “FURTHER” BUS 1964

by Ethan Russell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSes1bQjKM&feature=youtube_gdata_player Nobody would understand this better, nor use it more to their advantage in that era, than Madonna. The number of seismic social and cultural shifts she somehow embodied reads like an inventory of the rift in the generations: from the Sixties’ spiritual quest for ”Further” and ”All You Need Is Love” to the Eighties’ […]

YIPPEES IN CHICAGO (1968)

by Ethan Russell

The process led to a downwardly-spiraling media circus. This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders.

JOHN KENNEDY CITY UPON A HILL INCOMPLETE

by Ethan Russell

BUDDHIST MONK BURNS HIMSELF IN PROTEST

by Ethan Russell

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This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) These facts are disturbing to draft age students, and over time as the ambiguities and difficult moral choices that fighting a foreign war against an arbitrarily divided nation entailed came to light, when we were […]

THE VIETNAM MORATORIUM

by Ethan Russell

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These facts are disturbing to draft age students, and over time as the ambiguities and difficult moral choices that a fighting a foreign war against an arbitrarily divided nation entailed came to light, when we were confronted with images of the self-immolating Buddhist monks, the revelations of My Lai, the protests swelled. By 1969 over […]

MY LAI 1968

by Ethan Russell

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These facts are disturbing to draft age students, and over time as the ambiguities and difficult moral choices that a fighting a foreign war against an arbitrarily divided nation entailed came to light, when we were confronted with images of the self-immolating Buddhist monks, the revelations of My Lai, the protests swelled. By 1969 over […]

WATTS RIOTS 1965

by Ethan Russell

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“The next Selma procession, on March 21, was celebratory—thousands of singing marchers, ranks of glamorous celebrities in the fore, marching all the way through to Montgomery. That night one of the white marchers, a Detroit mother of five named Viola Liuzzo was shot to death.” “As they were driving along Route 80, a car tried […]

RONALD REAGAN 1966 CAMPAIGN

by Ethan Russell

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While Pat Brown recited a list of his accomplishments, Ronald Reagan spoke of “LSD parties” and conjured up images of their children in orgiastic abandon. While the facts were that Brown ordered the largest arrest ever of demonstrators at Berkeley’s Sproul Hall, Reagan will act as if Brown caused it. And Reagan’s parental disapproval – […]

SLY STONE “HIGHER!” 1969

by Ethan Russell

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. It was a somewhat surreal undertaking, as we raced through Tom’s locations in Southern California, wiring stuffed buzzards on weathered tree trunks at Big Bear Lake, tossing stuffed alligators into fire-ravaged canyons in Ojai, until finally, speeding on some […]