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Woodstock

Summer of Love/hippies/Make Love Not War

British invasion

Space race/NASA/landing on the moon

Vietnam war

Kennedy assassination

[Gopher]

How many who post here were alive in the 1960s?

[scotty c]

Kennedy assassination
Bay of pigs
John Jr. at JFK's funeral
A Hard Days Night
Help!
The Beatles, Stones, Animals, Doors, etc. on Ed Sullivan
F-Troop
"Here come the Seventies" (a tv show with technological predictions for the coming decade..most didn't happen)
Get Smart
The Beverly Hillbillies
Cassius Clay
LSD
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
Timothy Leary
Boston Celtics
Leafs win Stanley Cup (it's been a long, long time)

[Dancing Bear]

Walter Cronkite on the CBS News..
"And that's the way it was....."

[why not do it]

My first album purchase with my own money ( I was 6 years old) Sgt. Peppers

[bluelake]

[Mosley]

The Golden Age of the NHL(6-team league) on "Hockey Night in Canada".

Those Canadian TV classics, "Razzle Dazzle" and "The Forest Rangers"

"Rowan and Martin's Laugh In"

[The Bobster]

Earliest memory : The Cuban Missile Crisis. Dad was in the Reserves and had to be out of the house for about 2 weeks. When you're 5 years old, you really sort of notice when all the adults around you start thinking everyone is going to die real soon. (Mom was getting all Biblical, uncharacteristic for her : "Last time God sent a flood, this time it will be fire ...")

After that, the JFK assassination. Again, the adults around were worried, some thought the Russians did it, and missiles were already in the air. "If the bombs are on their way, do you really think they'd tell us? What would be the point?"

When I was in 2nd grade, a classmate had heard adults talking about "guerilla warfare" in SE Asia and actually thought they were putting uniforms and rifles in the hands of orangutangs ... he thought it was "gorilla warfare." Seriously. Guy had a lot of us kids believing it, too.

I was about 9 when Bobby Kennedy caught his bullet, and mainly I thought, "Damn. I'm so glad I wasn't born with that last name ..."

I cut newspaper articles from the paper every day about the space program, and of course I knew I would become an astronaut when I grew up. When Armstrong finally stepped out on the lunar dust, NASA had actually become a little boring for me - by then, my ambition was to be James Tiberius Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. More hand-to-hand combat, better gadgets, and some really hot babes once in a while ...

[Mosley]

The Six-Day War broke out on my birthday(though the memories of it are pretty fuzzy). Exactly one year later: RFK buys it and THAT I remember.

[Dancing Bear]

[quote="The Bobster"]Earliest memory : The Cuban Missile Crisis. Dad was in the Reserves and had to be out of the house for about 2 weeks. When you're 5 years old, you really sort of notice when all the adults around you start thinking everyone is going to die real soon. (Mom was getting all Biblical, uncharacteristic for her : "Last time God sent a flood, this time it will be fire ...")

My dad was the CO of the local Army Reserve. I remember asking him if we were going to dig a hole in the back yard for a bomb shelter...
I was excited about digging a hole. (I was also 5 years old)

[VanIslander]

i was getting some nipple action at the end of that decade

so, yeah, for me that decade was all about *beep* and *beep*

[hogwonguy1979]

[Unposter]

Does it count if you heard about it and hence have a memory of it even if you did not directly experience it?

[Ya-ta Boy]

What I remember most is hitchhiking to Ottumwa the day before I left for college. It will be 40 years ago next week. I needed some new shoes. My best friend and I hitched a ride up, did the shopping and then went to see a new movie we hadn't heard anything about: Bonnie and Clyde. Whoa! Was that ever an eye-opener. Up to that point, actors just laid down and died without any blood or twitching.

The next day I set out for Colorado and soon after, my friend set out for Vietnam.

I remember my first demonstration. No, it wasn't about the war. I remember all night debates in the dorm freshman year about the War. The big demonstrations came sophomore year.

I remember staying up late with a friend to record The White Album, then playing it over and over all night long, trying to decode the songs.

And I remember my first acid trip. That Asian girl really did turn into a fire-breathing dragon, right there on the sidewalk in the middle of campus. Cool. I also remember Kool-Ade John's acid spaghetti party. It was legendary.

I remember campaigning for McCarthy (the good one) in Nebraska and South Dakota. (I also remember telling Senator McGovern that I thought he was a moral midget for supporting Bobby over Gene.)

I remember Ronnie Reagan, the governor, flipping us students off at Berkeley not long after Nixon took office.

[SuperFly]

My earliest memory is from 1969. (I was five) Sitting in front of the TV watching the news reports about Vietnam. My dad was in the USAF and had been to Tan Son Nhut, Nha Trang and Da Nang Air Bases.

I looked at my dad and I told him that I wanted to be a door gunner on a helicopter when I was old enough...to that he replied, "Don't ever say that again, you could walk across Vietnam on all the helicopters that have been shot down if you laid them end to end."

Then he told me what "SATCONG" meant, probably why that was my earliest memory.