"The Sixties" war and protest on the PBS channel NOW! (9:00)

[Imagevision]

[evlbstrd]

1. Dylan on Monday and Tuesday.

Get Up Stand Up last night. The Sixties tonight. It's as though PBS is tweaking its new conservative masters.
These shows make me proud to be a boomer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

We are a pretty awesome generation

:toast:

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. So far, the music is awesome

You can't listen to classic rock radio stations and get even an inkling of an idea of how wonderful music was in the 60s.

[evlbstrd]

9. Levitate the Pentagon!

[evlbstrd]

7. Yes, we are.

[hwmnbn]

11. Abso-damn-lutely!!

I had forgotten some of those intense feelings and times. These shows are bringing them back.

We did good, we stood up and made a difference. Heck, we still are doing good. That spirit doesn't die. Our bodies may creak in different places is all.

With everything that's been happening politically the last couple of days, I'm beginning to get those rushes again! :hippie:

[evlbstrd]

12. Oh, wow, man.

Flashback!
I sure miss Walter Cronkite.

[Cleita]

22. If Cronkite were around today, he would have been

Swiftboated just like Rather was, I'm sad to say.

[evlbstrd]

27. He'd have been much tougher to take down than Rather.

[Imagevision]

2. The critical events that shaped the 1960s, from civil rights and the

women's liberation movement to the youth counter-culture and the Vietnam War.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Please watch this

especially if you are too young to remember the 60s or The Vietnam War. We can learn lots from the Vietnam anti-war movement.

[Imagevision]

4. This is intense...! Johnson was like Bush

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Yes he was (sort of)

The Dems were the war mongers in the 60s.

BUT Johnson was a much better human being than bush and he was better for the country. He signed Civil Rights legislation and started Head Start programs. Name one decent thing bush has done. (I am not holding my breath).

I am not a big Johnson fan. I strongly opposed the Vietnam War. It escalated under his administration. But he was a better man and had more integrity than bush has.

[Cleita]

23. He also signed into legislation the Medicare program

which gave old people access to health care at a time in their lives that they needed it.

[SharonAnn]

14. In more ways than you know. I just read "Means of Ascent" and

found that his election to Senator was marked by the following:

1. Open campaign support from Brown & Root (Now Halliburton) in return for government contracts.
2. A negative campaign run by Johnson accusing his opponent of untrue things and buying many media ads to pound those untrue things deep into the minds of the electorate.
3. Rigged voting in many counties in Texas
4. A contested ballot count that was dragged through the courts and LBJ insted that the paper ballots of the contested precincts NOT BE COUNTED!
5. Johnson won the court case and thus the Senate Seat.

I was stunned! Karl Rove just copied LBJ's plan and execution!

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. What's the deal with PBS this week? All this great stuff

and no fundraiser? Usually non fund raising programming means Charlie Rose, Masterpiece Theater, and Gnat Catcher Documentaries.

[bamademo]

8. Great Minds

Maybe we should combine these threads?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4930362

[pstans]

13. This 25 year old is watching

and enjoying every minute.

Could Feingold be today's Eugene McCarthy?
Or is it Howard Dean?

[evlbstrd]

15. Here comes the Chicago Police Riot.

[Sydnie]

16. I began sobbing at King's shooting and haven't stopped yet

I have so many "If only" thoughts when I watch things like this. We need Martin and Bobby now more than ever.

[pstans]

28. I had the same "what if?" thoughts

When they should Bobby Kennedy get shot it made me really want Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run for office now.

[redwitch]

17. thank you for the heads up, this is great

devastating, but great.

[evlbstrd]

18. Ed Meese is still a pig.

Always has been.

[The Kicker]

24. Amen!

Friggen idiot Meese. Sounds like Pat Robertson.

[Sydnie]

19. To hear Buchannon tell it, he WAS the man behind the President

Was he Nixon's ROVE? We don't hear Ben Stein make these types of comments like "I wrote this speech anyway" kind of tone.

He really does think he's the maker of kings, doesn't he?

[Zen Democrat]

20. Sad thing is Humphrey was against the war, too.

But LBJ effectively blackmailed him to support the war in 1968 or LBJ wouldn't support him for the nomination.

Humphrey's biggest mistake was buckling to Johnson's threats.

The Left dogged Humphrey during the campaign and left Nixon alone. I agree with Todd Gitlin -- that was the biggest mistake of the 60's movement.

[Zen Democrat]

21. I'm loving all the Airplane music in this.

[KoKo]

25. A generation of "Might Have Beens."

....Tom Hayden

[erinlough]

26. I forgot how much I hated Nixon's speeches......like now with W. n/t