Posted on 05/14/2025 5:09:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff
This BBC film examines the myth behind the sixties, which was itself created before the decade was even out but has since lingered in all of our minds. What we have lived with however is merely a mirage and this documentary sets about exposing the truth, suggesting that we are living on borrowed time as a result of those who indulged whilst an unchecked Britain experienced an industrial decline. Looking back on old archived footage and the political atmosphere of the time a case is built against the decade we all consider to be filled with dreams
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Like Patty Murray saying to RFK jr "his" cuts prevented a constituent with cancer from getting into a treatment test. Turns out it was 100% a LIE. I hate that.
“handful of Senators don’t pass legislation….”
Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire
I joined the Marines in 1965 because of a Life magazine article showing a Marine helicopter crew and their fight against the Vietcong. With 6 months, I was in combat. The men who were with me were the best men I have ever known and the enemy was horrible and well worth killing and the people we were sent to protect were good, decent people.
Meanwhile, the Left mobilized a pro-enemy movement and they recruited the young people who didn't want themselves or their family to risk anything. We came home to a nightmare of accusation or indifference as our country turned against us.
Yes, I hate the '60s.
It was the best of times and the worst of times. Every rock song was either about drugs or war. Half the people you knew were in Viet Nam. Every night on the news for two hours was nothing but war footage. People used to sit and watch the news to see if they could spot a loved one.
On the other hand people partied like it was the twenties. The music was incredible.
As you were politically aware and involved at a young age, so was I, which is why I wrote the caveat...re being aware at that age.
As adult, I worked on Mr Nixon's 2 winning presidential campaigns, which were my first time at such a high level. As you did, my mother had me stuffing envelopes, etc. on local, then state, and finally Federal campaigns prior to that.
Re Goldwater...Miller, his runningmate, was probably THE worst speaker/campaigner that I have EVER had the displeasure of having had to endure hearing...of either party! But that's a whole other story.
Prior to T.V. children DID listen to the news on the radio, read newspapers, and saw, ON A BIG SCREEN, in movie theatres, at a time when everyone was going to the movies at least once a week, usually many more times, THE MOVIETONE NEWS newsreels! Sure, it wasn't like seeing something as it happened, but then, neither are many events, on T.V., as something happens!
Nam? That was not much of a big deal compared to seeing WW II footage on a huge movie screen, with ads afterward telling everyone to "BUY BONDS"!
And even before we were in WW II, there were films of Hitler, Nazis, Mussolini, etc. in the newsreels.
And no, I'm not old enough to have actually seen that all, in a movie theatre in the 1930s and early '40s; but as a young child, I did see such newsreels of the Korean War...AND I know history.
Newsreels were much different than what was on the nightly news.
Usually the Newsreels showed things that happened weeks before.
But the night of the Birmingham riots in 1963, it was on TV that evening.
Neither did you say WHAT year, you became an "adult" and yes, that matters! If it was 1960, rather than say '68, that's a big difference.
OTOH...if you want to talk about crazy lefty "feminism"...that goes back to the 1950s...as does the first outbreak of nationally talked about homosexuality...a la THE KINSEY REPORT.
That it does and always has done, since they started doing it.
Thank you for your service AND for your FACT filled comments!
OTOH...if you want to talk about crazy lefty “feminism”...that goes back to the 1950s...as does the first outbreak of nationally talked about homosexuality...a la THE KINSEY REPORT.
This was from 1961...Can you imagine the outcry if they tried to show this in schools today?
Boys Beware!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTn7ALbLYPI
Such broad comments distract from the point you're trying to make.
Have you never seen old MOVIETONE or PATHE newsreels?
Very true. Two words: Mass Media. Television, newspapers, radio, magazines, music, etc. Underground media also. Counterculture media. Everybody everywhere was immediately made aware of anything anywhere. The left and right coasts now had current awareness of each other. England and the States picked up on each other’s changing cultures. London mimicked San Fran and L.A. There was a mass worldwide coming of age.
Does it make seeing what happens live, at the moment any more powerful than seeing something days to a week later? I don't know; perhaps, perhaps not.
And while nobody could "see" the action, some radio news WAS distributed LIVE. Heck...baseball games were live, with detailed play by play action. :-)
Have you ever seen the anti-pot ones on YouTube? No, nothing like "REEFER MADNESS"!
There are also, some from the early-mid '50s on dating.
These things are real TIME MACHINES and very interesting!
Very true. Two words: Mass Media.
Or as Howard Beale put it: “Mass Madness”.
Just look at the difference in styles between January 1967 and December 1967.
Definitely something in the air in the Summer of Love, 1967. I’ve never seen a year to compare with it. Don’t expect to.
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