1960's

~ The 60's ~

Where were you in the 60's ~ in college, high school, grade school?

The world was in turmoil as the children of the 50s became adults and tried to cope with the realities of a rapidly-changing universe. The 60s children suffered growing pains like no other generation as they struggled between country and conscience, an endless conflict that resulted in the "hippie" movement and a giant step away from society and its unyielding authority.

As the 60's conflicts escalated, we watched it all on TV. For the first time in history, we had a front row seat to the world: the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis in '62, the Los Angeles riots in '65, the first troops went to Vietnam ('65), the Six-Day War in the Middle East in '67, and the Manson murders in '69. We lost Marilyn Monroe in '62, and suffered through a long list of assassinations including JFK (1963), Malcolm X ('65), and Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in '68,

On the brighter side, we got the Beatles; the Byrds; the Beach Boys; Bob Dylan; Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young; the Grateful Dead; the Moody Blues; Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix; Joan Baez; Jefferson Airplane; the Rolling Stones; Santana; Simon & Garfunkel; the Who; and the Hell's Angels. We had the planet's first rock concerts: the Monterey Pop Festival, the Altamont Free Concert, and Woodstock; and 20,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park. New York was buzzing in Greenwich Village while California's Haight-Ashbury became the center of the universe.

And, the world was introduced to Captain James T Kirk (Star Trek), Big Bird (Sesame Street), the ARPANET (the first Internet), and the very first Super Bowl game, which was played in 1967 between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs (Packers won).

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