The 60's

[CAJUNLAWYER]

If you were there-you understand the craziness-if not, this brings it back pretty well.
Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving
Gary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfgoJzOCgg

 

[slodraw]

Thank you. Hanoi Jane should have been tried and shot for treason.

 

[VAPA]

Thanks for the refresher.........

 

[jgh4445]

Yep...pretty much sums it up as I recall.

 

[fat tom]

Thanks for the link Caj,but I'm gonna pass. Too many things I'd just as soon leave there.
f.t.

 

[bricker]

A few years ago, when my youngest son was in junior high, he asked "Dad, do you remember the nineties?" I said sure do. "Do you remember the eighties?" Same answer, sure do. "How about the seventies?" Had to think about that one for a minute, then said yes." How about the sixties?" Yep, them too. "The fifties?" I was born in the fifties, I can remember very little. " Man, Dad, you sure are old!" Insolent little whipper-snapper!

 

[labworm]

Purchased this movie many years ago, tough one to purchase today.

The movie covers the time period rather well.

 

[rwsmith]

That was really depressing....

I didn't think I could sit through it. Thanks for making me so uncomfortable. Yeah. there was big news on the TV just about every night and it was usually very bad news.


The 'Weathermen' had to be the biggest bunch of morons ever. They broke out people's car windows to demonstrate what they were about but complained to the police when people broke THEIR car windows. Then of course several of them blew themselves up with a home made bomb. The philosophy of 'We are protesting violence by bringing violence' pretty much speaks for itself. Morons.

 

[25elk]

I guess the take away for me is that things never change. We are living in different times, different geography, different weapons...same kind of wars, same people- just older, same issues. It is almost like watching a movie about things to come. If you question my logic just read the comments attached to the film.

 

[Dennis The B]

Just remember. The same morons in those pictures, are the same morons who are teaching in our schools and colleges.

 

[Old TexMex]

I still have the wanted poster (of the four weather underground members)
on my wall.

 

[MDGasman]

Always one of my favorites.

 

[jimmyj]

The 60s: Hippes, Protests,Tear Gas, Riot Batons, Paddy Wagons,---Yes,I remember. (I was a small part of the thin blue line-always out numbered-never out fought

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Just remember. The same morons in those pictures, are the same morons who are teaching in our schools and colleges.

I clicked on the "Like" button, but only because there is not an "I agree" button. I don't like it at all.

 

[Donn]

Sometimes it seems like this afternoon.

 

[dave b]

If you remember the 60s, you weren't there.

 

[LVSteve]

I thought the gag was that if can remember the 60s you weren't really there. ETA: Dave must have hit Post just as I was typing.

 

[JcMack]

The '60's were the beginning of the end. Before the 60's teenagers looked forward to privileges granted in becoming adults as did the generations before them. Instead in the 60's adults began acting like kids wearing the hippie outfits and trying to regain their youth. I think the 60's is when the kids began observing the foolishness adults were displaying and those kids began to question authority in a big way.
I was 2 years into a new job were a white shirt, a tie, and short hair was required. I was downtown in Chicago during the riots and observed some kids getting their attitude adjusted. Mayor Daley I didn't understand the freedoms the rioters thought they had.

 

[Bkreutz]

If you remember the 60s, you weren't there.

I remember it quite well, the part I have difficulty with is determining which parts were real.

 

[Lost Lake]

I used to do drugs in the 60's....

Now I don't care what temperature it is !!

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[charlie sherrill]

Study Rome and see the future. For some reason the Romans were able to hold it together longer. Our biggest enemies are the media. They just don't realize they will be the first to be eliminated.

 

[rwsmith]

To rattle your memory

Psychedelic
Far Out
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Make Love Not War
War is not good for children and other living things
Flower Power
Sit in
Lid
Bogart
Bread
Bummer
Outta Sight
What's your bag, man?
Bad Trip
Day Glo
Groovy
Let it all hang out
Never trust anybody over 30
Paisley
Peace
Dig
Fab
Flower Child
Nehru
Granny Glasses

And the beat goes on.......

 

[Rangerpat]

Wow rwsmith, that's real far out and groovy!
Thanks for sharing, dude....

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Counter culture self-absorbed drug-addled minds with no respect for authority. Who raised such a generation? The counter culture would be known as Baby Boomers, and by some estimations the worst generation. Ironic that the Greatest Generation would raise the worst.

Great music in the 60s. Much of it endures to this day where music of the 50s has largely gone quiet a long time ago.

Right on!

 

[ordy]

These images are iconic and thought provoking for me. It was a time of such social upheaval and so many of us drank the cool-aid. A far cry from leave it to beaver and ozzie nelson. So much anger and frustration going on from several different fronts. Ironic that the great unwashed generation preached peace and love while the militant factions of that sub culture expressed it in such a violent manner.

 

[williamlayton]

The 50' made the 60's and it had to come to pass because of the 40's.
We are all responsible and participated in all of it. Remember the beat generation and coffee houses. Remember the establishment putting down the youth who just wanted to grow up.
The 40's hampered a youth movement or any sort and those folks did their thing in the 50's when they created a mid-life change and it took on a life of its own in the 60's.
You don't remember.
Blessings

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Counter culture self-absorbed drug-addled minds with no respect for authority. Who raised such a generation? The counter culture would be known as Baby Boomers, and by some estimations the worst generation. Ironic that the Greatest Generation would raise the worst.

Great music in the 60s. Much of it endures to this day where music of the 50s has largely gone quiet a long time ago.

Right on!

Interesting observation-they certainly didn't do it out of anything but love-in retrospect misguided perhaps but they tried to give their children what they grew up without. We do our best and then close our eyes tight and pray it works. Nobody sets out to intentionally mess up their kids.

 

[HorizontalMike]

I did not care for the video author's current(2013) openly biased Right Wing comments inserted in various parts of the video. That and the image of Nagaski/Hiroshima was out of place as well. The author's foul mouthed responses on the YouTube comments explained it all to me.

I am out of here...

And yes, been there done that...

 

[JcMack]

There was a darkside to all the new found freedom of the 60's. The drug culture was not all the fun n games portrayed by Cheech n Chong. We'll never know how many kids OD'ed or addicted themselves forever. The 60's produced a kind of renewed drug acceptance that was so hard to get rid of at the turn of the century. A real darkside to the movement were the kids left home forever to join the society drop outs and fell victim to the freaks amongst them. A lot of kids were never heard from again.

 

[Boox]

just remember...some of those protesters, marchers, antiwar zealots who were smart enough to see that a bunch of old guys in Washington were far more interested in getting greeners in their hands that they were worried about the young men and women who were dying over there...also check out McNamara's 100,000...I know because I had to train them...