The one main event of the 60's that began the decline of Western civilization was the removal of prayer in schools. The idea of a school shooting was unheard of. Schools did not need cops to keep order, because children were disclipined at home. The beginning of the 60's was much like the 50's (see Leave it to Beaver, ot Pleasantville) By the end of the 60's the counterculture revolution was in full swing. The best thing to come out of the 60's was the musclecars and music (James Marshall Hendrix).
Almost. There was that guy in the tower on some (Texas?) campus...
Had a school shooting at Morningside H.S. in Inglewood Ca in 1964, Inglewood Ca. Graduates of Morningside, the McKiever Twins (NFL FOOTBALL), Mario Savio (not a graduate, kicked out)of the Berkely free speech garbage. Tom Nardini, played Lee Marvin's sidekick (the Indian) in "Cat Balloo), (one of my beer drinking buddies, almost punched his lights out when I saw him with long hair for the movie the night before I flew off for the Nam), Vickie Lawrence (singer, actress), Whatever his name is that manages the Oakland A's etc.
A clown at the school broke into Ketchum's sporting goods store and stole a bunch of guns, brought them to school and got drunk in the head. Walked out, and tried to shoot a cigar out of the mouth of one of the janitors across the way. That is the same sporting goods store that Patty Hearst's kidnappers robbed prior to the shootout that killed the SLA terrorists.
Public prayer was a little gay (as the term is used today), a little boring but almost every event had an invocation. It was accepted. It was natural. It wasn't that everybody was a Jesus Freak, far from it (otherwise Sunday was firmly separated from Monday), it was just the way things were done.