the times they were a changing?
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The times they were a changing?
History by activists?
Rise and fall of liberalism?
A more complex movement?
Continuities as well as defeat?
Seeds of the 1960sAffluence
Suburbia and conformity
Birth Rate
Political conservatism
Teenagers and Rock and Roll
Cultural rebels: Kerouac, Pollock, Parker
JFK and the start of the 60sNov 1960 JFK
election victory
April 1961 Bay of Pigs
Nov 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
22 Nov 1963 JFK assassinated in Dallas
LBJAug 1964 Economic
Opportunity Act
Aug 1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident
Nov 1964 LBJ re-elected
Feb 1965 ‘Rolling Thunder’
Mar 1965 Ground troops to Vietnam
VietnamEconomic cost
($150 Billion)
Provided Impetus to growing social movements
Federal Govt. ‘lies’, and secrecy
Psychological impact of military defeat
The New Left1962 SDS and the ‘Port
Huron Statement’
Autumn 1964 Berkeley, and the ‘Free Speech Movement’
1964 Vietnam teach-in at University of Michigan
Apr 1965 SDS organised antiwar rally in DC
‘Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out’‘One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1962)
Commune at La Honda., Ca.
1966 20,000 attended an acid test in San Francisco
1967 ‘The Summer of Love’
Music and RebellionMay 1963 ‘The
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’
Feb 1964 Beatles toured US
By 1965 ‘Acid Rock’ – Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane
1966 Otis Redding at Monterey
Aug 1969 Woodstock
The New RightA different Narrative
Anticommunism
William F. Buckley Jr
Barry Goldwater, 1964
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)
Grassroots Activism.
1968 31 Jan Tet Offensive
31 Mar LBJ announcement
4 Apr Assassination of MLK
4 June Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Aug Chicago Convention
Nov Richard Nixon elected President