Tag: the sixties
group name: thesixties
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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 . . . more
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March 13, 2008 05:13 PM EST --
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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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August 18, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
Hippiefest 2007 part 1
A beautiful sunny afternoon. A great day to go to the middle of New Hampshire to see musicians, that I have been listening to for over forty years. (Yes, I am . . . more
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December 05, 2007 12:10 AM EST --
The following is the first of a series from Colonel Possum’s Tall Tales from the Sixties now reposted to Tom Brokaw’s new group Boom!
Preface to a Multi-Part Series, "Weekend . . . more
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
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April 25, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
The year was 1962. James Meredith was a student at the University of Mississippi.
That his final acceptance into the university was won by such strife is a disgrace in our civil rights history. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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April 21, 2007 12:00 AM EDT --
In the spring of 1964, I was a senior at Queens College in New York City, an English major with an unmapped future and unable to take my situation seriously despite the growing likelihood that . . . more
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August 20, 2007 06:50 PM EDT --
After the break. A new group of musicians came on.
Felix Cavaliere's Rascals. He had his own band and they were good. Felix’s voice is still wonderful. He started . . . more
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September 04, 2006 09:21 AM EDT --
For the past hour, I penned an nice little essay about former lead singer of The Shangri-las, Mary Weiss. As all good boomers should know, the Shangri-las were icons of the day of the famed "girl . . . more
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October 10, 2006 03:50 AM EDT --
I realize that some Gatherers reading this may be new to Gather and may not always know which groups are for which content.
But let me say a few words about my groups.
Most of my groups are moderated. . . . more
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October 07, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
For years, I have been a big Bob Dylan fan. And I found out that he was to play at the Verizon Arena in Manchester, NH. ( With Elvis Costello. Yea, a twofer!!)
My wife and I left early Friday afternoon . . . more
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May 23, 2007 06:43 AM EDT --
I remember the sixties,
The long hair and the flowers,
It was up with the people,
With all kinds of powers.
There was Andy Warhol,
And grey haired heads of state,
National guard shooting students, . . . more
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March 15, 2008 11:23 AM EST --
In 1963, segregation was a way of life for the South. On June 11, 1963, Governor George Wallace of Alabama came to national prominence when he kept his campaign promise to 'stand in the schoolhouse . . . more
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February 03, 2008 07:51 PM EST --
Current questions not withstanding, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the one time in history when the U.S. came within a hair's breadth of nuclear war.
The Cold War was the paranoia that fueled . . . more
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