Is anyone watching The 60's on PBS?

[bamademo]

I'm six minutes into it and DAMN! Dan Rather is narrating. Turned on the home theater surround sound because the sound track so far is great. :hippie:

[skooooo]

1. on the west coast here, have to wait 3 more hours

[MADem]

2. Thanks for the heads up

Alice's Restaurant on now...shit, memories!

[Wilms]

5. A Thanksgiving tradition.

[MADem]

6. Exceptin' ALICE!!!

Heh, heh...

[LisaM]

3. Darn it, I'm going to a forum on electronic voting

Any Phil Ochs yet?

[hwmnbn]

4. It's on at 9:00 pm here....

I'll sign out of here and hopefully trip on some groovy flashbacks, if you catch my drift. LOL

[bamademo]

7. This is my consolation for not going to see George Carlin

Didn't have the money since I had a $835 car repair. Can you believe he came to Huntsville, Alabama? :bounce:

[LunaSea]

43. Carlin is everywhere!

I attended a function in a tiny, dirty town in eastern Kentucky. After hearing the main speaker at the local theater, I wandered into the lobby and discovered not one but two photos of George hanging among the various (mostly country singer) performers who had appeared there.
Really made me smile!

An appearence in Huntville does not surprise me, if we can get him into Decatur, or Enterprise....That would be progress.

[populistdriven]

8. THANK YOU!!!

I set the tivo to record the 4 AM showing :)

[bamademo]

10. I'm hoping that it will wake up some young people

I'm watching this and kids today look like we did. We've come full circle. I'm amazed. Now if we could just get the music scene back. We've got the fashions. :bounce:

[HEAVYHEART]

28. I hear you about the music scene!!!

[0007]

9. Yeah, tis bring back old memories!

[highplainsdem]

11. Thanks! I'd forgotten about it, would have missed it.

Really brings back memories.

[The Kicker]

12. God,I miss Walter Cronkite.

There isn't a news reader today worthy of cleaning his toilets. I never saw the murder of the Vietnamese man on film,only in picture form. Shot him cold-blooded right in the head. Will humans evolve before we anihilate each other? Christ on an M1 tank. What the hell? We are in worse shape than we were even then.

[MADem]

13. Damn, I have to really recommend this

I happened to see this post, and flipped to the station at the start.

And SONOFABITCH, this is SO GOOD ON SO MANY LEVELS!

I am reliving an era, and the generation(s) behind me are getting some SERIOUS history that is "relatable."

It is amazing, now they are up to MLK...

[The Kicker]

14. It seems the students were key.

The students had the guts to stand with each other for change. I wonder if they sometimes feel it was all for nothing. I was way too young when this was going on to even have a clue. I sometimes think I was born after my time, if you know what I mean.

[highplainsdem]

15. OMG, Bobby... Anyone else here ever see him speak?

[The Kicker]

16. Nothing new under the sun

Damn, watching this show almost depresses me . It seems like we just,as a species, can't manage to move past violence. Sad. Last November I had it in my mind that we were experiencing the last gasp of reptilian brainstem living. Now, I'm not as sure. The peabrains may take us out before we move to the next level.

[FreedomAngel82]

36. It'll never end

As long as there is freewill. If there ever was universal peace someone would break off and end it and back to where we were.

[KoKo]

17. Don't Miss it! When Cronkite says "If we had more troops..."

Speculating.

It's a great retrospective for those of you who wonder why some of us are so Lefty!

[KoKo]

20. OMG! I'm a "Generation of Might Have Beens!"

:cry: according to Tom Hayden. The curse of our lives...after so much promise.

[The Kicker]

18. George Wallace

"Segregation forever." WTF? Did I read Somewhere that H. Clinton worked for his campaign?

[Zen Democrat]

22. No, you didn't. In 1964, she was a "Goldwater" girl.

By 1968, she was a radical at Wellesley.

[The Kicker]

23. Thanks

I thought that didn't seem correct. Goldwater,not Wallace.

[The Kicker]

19. 700 arrested

to establish a department of ethnic studies at a university. Unreal.

[The Kicker]

21. Boo Hiss

Freakin Kissinger. Warmonger supreme.

[spanone]

24. It seems like yesterday and a million years ago.

[politick]

25. When Ted Kennedy went off that bridge

that's when the Sixties ended for me."

Best quote so far. He was a great senator and "the last man Nixon feared," and when Chapaquittick (sp.) happened, Nixon went all the way to the right. Awesome.

And the protests in DC had 700 thousand people!

That's a lot of hippies...

[FreedomAngel82]

37. I think with Teddy

a lot of them still fear him. That's why, I think, they still bring that up. Why else would they? They're still afraid of him. Why? :shrug:

[StellaBlue]

26. GOD, I LOVE the sixties!

That clip of revolting students and 'Helter Skelter' as the backup music just made me feel 17 again (and I was 17 in 1996!). hahahaha

But I used to drive around in my '74 VW bug, with my Clinton/Gore 96 sticker, blasting that song out on my crappy tape deck! hahahaha

[StellaBlue]

27. Seeing people attempting to be 'authentic'

is far more inspirational than Vera Wang Bridal. Seriously.

Backlash against the re-emergence of the fifties!!!!! NOW!!!!

[The Kicker]

29. Yeah,the 1850s n/t

[StellaBlue]

30. or just the 50s

as in 50 AD

We'll all be living in electricity-less shanties soon enough.

[The Kicker]

31. Sure looks that way,doesn't it.

It almost seems that the US is an addict that has to hit rock bottom before we can heal. Unfortunately, the whole family (the world) suffers along with the addict.

[StellaBlue]

35. Indeed

That's the truest thing I've heard all day

[B Calm]

32. The anti war protests today lack the young people..

[Blue_In_AK]

38. Not true...

I saw TONS of young people last weekend and have the pictures to prove it.

[B Calm]

44. Do you see mass protests on college campus all over the

country like we had during the 60s?

[Blue_In_AK]

45. No, you're right about that part.

Another thing I notice is that the demonstrations are a lot more peaceful than they used to be, maybe because so many people have digital cameras now and the cops don't feel as free to get out of line as they used to. Politeness is good, but there's nothing quite as galvanizing as seeing skulls getting crunched on TV. That thought occurred to me last night while I was watching "The Sixties" on PBS.

Never mind, I take back what I said.

[graywarrior]

33. Revolution will only happen now if the kids get involved.

[FreedomAngel82]

34. I loved it!!

:D I really enjoyed it. It amazed me of how much has stayed the same and is happening again. :crazy: Especially those we call "Freepers" now. I cried when Martin Luther King junior and Robert Kennedy died. :cry: I definitley left watching feeling impowered and full of hope for now. :)

[saged52]

40. I loved it, too!

And I agree with everything you said - I was in high school in the sixties - I cried for Mr. King and Bobby Kennedy then - and I cried again this evening. The revolutions did bring change - I also feel empowered - and I'm ready to take it the streets - - - again!

[RevCheesehead]

39. I thought it was excellent.

It helped me put together things I only remembered vaguely as a pre-teen. It also made me realize that our country has been through worse situations than the current ones, and we've survived. I guess we'll get through this current mess, too.

[zulchzulu]

41. Kerry and Vets Against The War certainly helped end the war

It was good seeing John for the 10 seconds they showed him. All in all, the sadness of losing MLK and RFK were of such immense importance to what America could have been...

[redwitch]

42. I missed the first 15 minutes, damn

It was fabulous though. So many things I will always remember.
My dad wrote for a newspaper and was a total news junkie. I was sitting on the living room couch watching TV news when we saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. I will never forget it. My dad shouted Oh My God and leaped to turn up the volume. I was so afraid of the grown up talk over my head. I mean people of my generation grew up practicing what to do in case of nuclear attack. I never really questioned at the time that lining up in the hallway of Hamilton Square School would somehow make things better. I had a recurring nightmare as a kid which I attribute to the Cuban Missile Crisis in which my neighborhood and everyone I knew was gone, reduced to smoking rubble.
I remember being dismissed early from school the day John Kennedy was shot.
I remember my mother crying as she hung wash on the line when I got home. I cried then too though I didn't know why she did really. My dad wrote for a newspaper and was a total news junkie. I was sitting on the living room couch watching TV news when we saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. I will never forget it. I also remember watching the news footage of troops in battle in VietNam. What a horror.
There was so much promise for this country that was squandered by assassination, war and racism. When I cry about the losses of the sixties now, at least I understand why. Damn. It should have been different.