THE FABULOUS SIXTIES (Series)
Price: $800.00 Code: 2061 |
Produced by Philip S. Hobel
Narrated by Peter Jennings
1993, color and B&W, 45 mins. each,
Purchase: $800.00
The major political, cultural and social issues of each year in the decade are brought vividly to life in this ten-part historical series. The Sixties were milestone years, a time when the promises of the future finally arrived and the problems of the past finally erupted. It was a time of savage and brutal violence. It was a time of technological marvels of space exploration, heart transplants, birth control pills, and color TV. It was also a time when things went terribly wrong the Vietnam War, Thalidomide babies, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. More than anything else, the Sixties were a time of controversy over civil rights, women's liberation, gay rights, the use of marijuana and LSD, the Warren Report on JFK's assassination, black power and U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The Sixties were a decade of such change and upheaval that the debate over those issues still reverberates today. Each cassette is time-coded for easy access to any one of dozens of specific topics, of which the following is only a partial listing.
Narrated by Peter Jennings
1993, color and B&W, 45 mins. each,
Purchase: $800.00
The major political, cultural and social issues of each year in the decade are brought vividly to life in this ten-part historical series. The Sixties were milestone years, a time when the promises of the future finally arrived and the problems of the past finally erupted. It was a time of savage and brutal violence. It was a time of technological marvels of space exploration, heart transplants, birth control pills, and color TV. It was also a time when things went terribly wrong the Vietnam War, Thalidomide babies, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. More than anything else, the Sixties were a time of controversy over civil rights, women's liberation, gay rights, the use of marijuana and LSD, the Warren Report on JFK's assassination, black power and U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The Sixties were a decade of such change and upheaval that the debate over those issues still reverberates today. Each cassette is time-coded for easy access to any one of dozens of specific topics, of which the following is only a partial listing.
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"The series could be used by students to follow particular topics or events as they unfold through the decade or as a resource for term papers and classroom presentations." - School Library JournalRelated Films
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1969
U.S. POWs in Vietnam; John Lennon and Yoko Ono; Stokely Carmichael; Woodstock music festival; Chinese Red Guards; Apollo 11 and first man on the moon; birth control pills; Easy Rider; Vietnam Moratorium; Nixon's world tour.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1968
Worldwide student protests; assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies; Eugene McCarthy's anti-war campaign; LBJ out of race; Tet Offensive; assassination of Robert Kennedy; Nixon elected President.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1967
Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco; three U.S. astronauts die; March on the Pentagon; Six Day War in Mideast; Greek Junta seizes power; LBJ and Kosygin meet; Pan American Games; urban revolt in Detroit; Che Guevara killed in Bolivia.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1966
Mass murderers Richard Speck and the Boston Strangler; Ralph Nader and auto safety; grape boycott in California; Cultural Revolution in China; credit card boom; Beatles banned in the South; George Wallace.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1965
Walks in space; Vietnam War; Timothy Leary and drug culture; assassination of Malcolm X; Salvador Dali and happenings; Watts riot; deaths of Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill; Pope Paul VI at UN.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1964
The Beatles invade the U.S.; Khrushchev overthrown; LBJ in the White House; Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives Nobel Prize; Cassius Clay; Marshall McLuhan; China becomes nuclear power; Civil Rights workers killed in Mississippi.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1963
Racial tensions in the South; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Kennedy forms Peace Corps; Vietnam under Diem; Surgeon General's report on smoking; Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine; nuclear test ban treaty signed with Moscow; JFK assassinated.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1962
Malcolm X; bomb shelters; Cuban missile crisis and threat of nuclear confrontation; JFK vs. the steel companies; James Meredith goes to school; Thalidomide tragedy; Seattle World's Fair; Marilyn Monroe dies.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES: 1961
JFK inauguration; first man in space; Kennedy meets Khrushchev; East Germany builds the wall; Bay of Pigs invasion; trial of Adolf Eichmann; Civil Rights Freedom Riders; the pill; Chubby Checker and the Twist.
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THE FABULOUS SIXTIES:1960
Presidential Election: Kennedy vs. Nixon; U-2 spy plane incident; African independence and the Congo; Sharpeville massacre in South Africa; Caryl Chessman executed; Ban the Bomb demonstrations; Payola scandal; Elvis Presley is drafted.
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REVIEW OF THE SIXTIES
A fast-paced overview of the events, issues and personalities of the decade, including the
assassinations of two Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Beatles; space
exploration; a confrontation in Cuba; and U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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