Tag: the sixties
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December 03, 2007 12:32 PM EST --
We are all on a rock hurling through space. That's why sometimes we have this feeling that things are moving way too fast. Time is a train and we're the passengers. Luckily, . . .
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May 20, 2008 05:36 PM EDT --
November 22, 1963. 12:30 p.m., Central Time, Dealey Plaza.
Zapruder testimony article HERE
The Presidential car, an open-top, 1961 Lincoln Continental, reached theTexas School . . .
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March 13, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
If you were around in 1964, chances are good that you were glued to your family's black and white TV set on three Sunday evenings in February (Feb. 9, 16, and 23). What we didn't know was that . . .
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January 14, 2007 06:38 PM EST --
I was born in 1950 I was one of 7 children . We lived all over Virginia. Petersburg. Fridricksburg.
Seaford, You get the point. My dad was in construction. So we moved a lot. I completed only
One year . . .
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February 02, 2007 07:32 AM EST --
When I was a little girl in the 60's I loved these...does anyone else remember them!!
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September 21, 2009 12:54 PM EDT --
I was not at Woodstock, but my brother was. Woodstock was right near my parents' house in Sullivan County, New York. My brother lived in a tepee on Bob Dylan's land. He stole firewood . . .
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April 13, 2006 08:23 PM EDT --
In November, 1960 John Fitzgerald Kennedy beat Richard Milhouse Nixon in a presidential race, undprecented for its extremely narrow popular vote margin. Kennedy was elected president by a substantial electoral . . .
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January 08, 2008 01:31 AM EST --
A collage of JFK photos
On the eve of the 2008 New Hampshire primary, it is most interesting and timely to look at some details of Kennedy's 1960 . . .
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August 31, 2006 09:07 PM EDT --
One of the most powerful images of the sixties that I recall is
when my friend, Frankie, died in Viet Nam. He was the cutest and happiest friend I ever had. We would all meet at "the . . .
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November 30, 2007 02:28 PM EST --
Before the twentieth century, most of history’s movers and shakers had been young (and almost exclusively young men) because the average life span was so short. In colonial America, if a man . . .
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April 22, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
Last night Kelly saw Kris Kristofferson on TV. He did not seem well. His voice was unsteady and shaky and he looked ancient.
Kelly felt the tears well up, not for Kristofferson; . . .
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March 13, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
Greetings Folks, I'd like to call your attention to the new Featured Articles in my group, Chateaux Gathereaux. I've decided to feature Friday Food Notes by David C. who is an expert . . .
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September 23, 2009 08:06 AM EDT --
The Sixties are over.
Finally the hawks can relax and not worry that those damn hippies are going to keep singing their peacenik songs until World Peace arrives.
Where Have all the Hippies . . .
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December 11, 2007 03:51 PM EST --
The sound of the The Beatles drifted down from my sister Betty's attic bedroom. Her room was a haven of exciting music, make-up and clothes. Besides she had the only private room in the . . .
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January 13, 2008 09:14 AM EST --
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my refrigerator.
The piece I have is from 1989, when a friend - who now lives in Boston but who grew up in Germany when the Wall was built - joined thousands . . .
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January 25, 2008 05:26 PM EST --
On February 7, 1962 and continuing, President John F. Kennedy announced a trade embargo against Cuban exports into the U.S., making it the longest continuous trade embargo in modern times. . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:27 AM EST --
On April 17th, 1961: 1,500 armed, anticommunist Cuban exiles landed at Playa Giron beach in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, hoping to overthrow the Communist dictatorship government of Fidel Castro. . . .
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . .
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January 15, 2008 11:51 AM EST --
I'm bored.
Let's play a tribute game to the great music of the 50's and 60's: the oldies!
Name an artist, song or album...
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May 19, 2006 02:18 PM EDT --
In October 1970, Richard Nixon and the Republican party faced foreboding poll numbers in the congressional elections.
His invasion of Cambodia earlier that year and the subsequent escalation of anti-war . . .
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