The Day the '60s Died

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The Day the '60s Died

Full Episode

Aired: 04/28/2015
55:40
Expires: 04/28/2016
Rating: TV-PG

The Day the '60s Died chronicles the chaotic month of May 1970 when it seemed America was at war with itself. The young against the old. Conservatives against radicals. Radicals against themselves. The government against its citizens and citizens against the government. What was it like to be an American in May 1970?

YouTube: May 1970 student protests

[Pharaoh]

1. full documentary here

http://www.pbs.org/program/day-60s-died/

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[Arkansas Granny]

2. I watched that a few nights ago. Excellent.

For those who were alive then, it brings all those feelings back again. For those who were too young, it gives a little insight as to what was going on at the time.

[appalachiablue]

3. It was very good, especially how the program pulled together many ideals and events

that I understand much better now.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. The "60s" actually started in the late 60s and extented well into the 70s....

The media likes to present it as if the 70s was the disco era.

[Enthusiast]

5. The establishment (media) would like us to forget all the creative music from that period.

It all disco, only disco. Saturday Night Fever.

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[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. It was when Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd were at their peak....

Just be glad they didn't try to claim it was the era of Country.

[Enthusiast]

7. I think they tried to promote Country but it didn't fly.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. That's because people were discovering weed and Texas was convicting for life for a seed.

[Unknown Beatle]

9. That's not true.

In 1974 my brother and three of his friends got busted for a quarter ounce of pot and they didn't spend a day in jail, a only a couple of hours in a holding cell. They had to pay an attorney five hundred dollars apiece to have the charges dropped and their pot possession record expunged. I forgot to add, this happened in Texas.

Pot was big during the mid to late sixties. My friends and I were already smoking by 1968.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. $500 in 74 was a lot of scratch. Sounds like it was a bribe....

The Country Western crowd was split between the Willie Nelson fans and the Pat Boone squares.