The Sixties
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Oh gosh, I was 12 when Kennedy was killed and can remember everything. It wasn't a mule pulling the caisson but a team of 6 beautiful grays. They were magnificent. And the stallion "Black Jack" following with the wagon with the riderless horse boots pointing backwards meaning the rider "would ride no more". I can even remember a chosen verse from Revelations 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth, Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.
It was four days that changed the U.S. for good. It epitomized itself to me as I recalled the exciting election 3 years prior. Kennedy and Johnson were running against Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge. It was such a close election season, our teacher held a mock election in our class. It was great fun with election signs and speeches and, oddly enough, Kennedy won a squeaker just like the real election. In 1962 Kennedy came to Nashville and spoke at Dudley Field at Vanderbilt. The paper gave his cavalcade route and I rode my bike over 30 miles to get to the highway at the airport. I never saw him though.
The very next year after the assassination LBJ ran his race against Goldwater. Somebody suggested there be another mock election but it was quickly dismissed. The teacher said it wouldn't make any difference how we voted, we were too young and it would take away from class time.
The change we experienced was the different tint on our rose colored glasses. It was an awakening of the dark matter. It wasn't as if we were all unaware of the harshness of reality; our parents had withstood the horrors of an era rife with the worst of human character, but rather it was because of these atrocities of war and economic despair that we had invented a Camelot somehow. We had sung Big Rock Candy Mountain and allowed ourselves to believe there were peppermint trees. In short, we were dreaming and the gunshots at Dealey Plaza woke us up.
So we forgot about the frivolity of a mock election at school and studied instead. It would soon be clear that staying in school might be life or death.
In all honesty, the 60's were the beginning to the end of America as it once was. There are so very many factors that came together to change this Nation forever. Some good, some not good at all. It would take a Novel to tell the whole story of the 60's.
Some significant events were:
Kennedy Assassination
Civil Rights Movement
Viet Nam
Socialism emerging as a Political/Social power throughout our Society
NASA and Space Race Accomplishments
Proliferation of the acceptance of drug use/abuse
Moral decay born from Hollywood and the Music Industry
Some significant events were:
Kennedy Assassination
Civil Rights Movement
Viet Nam
Socialism emerging as a Political/Social power throughout our Society
NASA and Space Race Accomplishments
Proliferation of the acceptance of drug use/abuse
Moral decay born from Hollywood and the Music Industry
This nation has been changing "forever" and dramatically ever since its founding, every 30 or 40 years or so. The reasons are almost always the same, shifting economics, political thoughts, human paradigms, technology, and war. The 60's were just yet another seismic shift in a long line of them.
What may have been unique was that technology transferred what we were doing here to the world, which in turn influenced the course of other countries way of thinking and doing things. And i don't know if so many factors came into play at one time before. The civil war is the closest example I know of that is similar to the '60's as far as so many elements coming together at one time.
Also, since it is in our lifetimes, we are more aware of it.
What may have been unique was that technology transferred what we were doing here to the world, which in turn influenced the course of other countries way of thinking and doing things. And i don't know if so many factors came into play at one time before. The civil war is the closest example I know of that is similar to the '60's as far as so many elements coming together at one time.
Also, since it is in our lifetimes, we are more aware of it.
............. As I recall, and may be wrong, but the Jesus People Movement really took off in the 50's when Traveling Evangelists would tour the South and West, setting up Tents in small Towns to hold Revivals.........but, I could be wrong. That's why I didn't include the growth of the Church in the list about the 60's. Many members were lost during those years. ............. As I recall, and may be wrong, but the Jesus People Movement really took off in the 50's when Traveling Evangelists would tour the South and West, setting up Tents in small Towns to hold Revivals.........but, I could be wrong. That's why I didn't include the growth of the Church in the list about the 60's. Many members were lost during those years.
I spent the 70's overseas...........so I really don't know much about what went on here during that decade.......With the exception of Carter's Presidency........he ALMOST destroyed our Military. We literally had GI's who were begging for assistance to feed and house their families.....but we pulled together and made it through. Thank God he did not win a second term.
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Alice Cooper band released their first album in 1969 and really became popular in the 1970's.
Neat article on Vincent Furnier's (Alice Cooper) faith here:
The Godfather Of Shock Rock Comes Home To His Heavenly Father – ViralBeliever
Neat article on Vincent Furnier's (Alice Cooper) faith here:
The Godfather Of Shock Rock Comes Home To His Heavenly Father – ViralBeliever