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I wish I had more time to write this but I think a very compelling aspect was the growth and power of media over the individual in the 60s. It started with a few fuzzy television stations with limited entertainment, then we saw televised presidential debates, then we had entertainment stars "coming to America" and growing bigger than life. Cowboys roamed the black and white screens but they started disappearing as the decade progressed and their six-gun morality was questioned by the media masters. In their place we saw ugly race riots with hoses and dogs, assassinations and too many funerals. Before long we became obsessed with the psychedelics of "in living color" until we saw wounded soldiers and manufactured stories of shame and defeat. Hell, just talking about this makes me want to turn on and drop out. :-) We also saw live pictures from the moon. Imagine, it was quite an uplifting moment for us as Americans...that is if you weren't up to your neck in the muddy nudity of Woodstock. How's that? I'm sure I missed much. So much happened in those ten years.