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YELLOW DOG http://yellowdogeats.com/lunch-dinner-menu/ that was nice enough to give my friend water on a very hot day (this picture). Main pic is from the Breakers http://breakersnsb.com/menu/ What are you doing this weekend—how about NEW SMYRNA BEACH http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g34471-Activities-New_Smyrna_Beach_Florida.html it’s an interesting place for history, eating, sun, & surf https://www.floridamemory.com/blog/2014/05/14/dr-andrew-turnbull-and-the-origins-of-new-smyrna-beach/
John Kennedy’s margin of victory over Richard Nixon in 1960: 118,574 votes
Lyndon Johnson’s margin of victory over Barry Goldwater in 1964: 15,951,296 votes
Richard Nixon’s margin of victory over Hubert Humphrey in 1968: 510,314 votes http://www.shmoop.com/1960s/statistics.html
Who said the majority is always Right —I am not a crook—Richard Nixon–and your authority on that statement?
Yippies
One of the many loosely organized factions engaged in political activism and cultural criticism during the 1960s. Many saw in their emergence a transformation in the youth movement away from sober social commentary and toward street theater and symbolic cultural commentary. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, yippies held a rally for Pigasus—a pig that was nominated for president. http://www.shmoop.com/1960s/terms.html
By 1967, King had become the country’s most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his “Beyond Vietnam” speechdelivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 — a year to the day before he was murdered — King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm
Most of us had long admired King and rejoiced in his joining us in our denouncement of the war—It made perfect sense: 7262 blacks died that’s 14.1% of the total at a time when they made up 11.0% of the young male population nationwide. http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/vietnam/vwc10.htm
- The Making of the Counter Culture (1969)
Herbert Marcuse, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, was an influential libertarian socialist thinker on the radical student movements of the era philosopher of the New Left,
Sorry but another person that I never heard of.
“I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain’t going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won’t even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won’t even stand up for my right here at home. “ Muhammad Ali
Bob Dylan gets a lot of kudos for his protest and other songs during the 60’s but in the group I ran with we were more influenced by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young—and several others—-than by Bob. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bob-dylan-the-beat-generation-and-allen-ginsbergs-America
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.
Bob Dylan
And women…yes we finally are adding one: Angelia Davis http://womenshistory.about.com/od/aframerwriters/p/angela_davis.htm : Davis later moved north and went to Brandeis University in Massachusetts where she studied philosophy with Herbert Marcuse. As a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, in the late 1960s, she joined several groups, including the Black Panthers. But she spent most of her time working with the Che-Lumumba Club, which was all-black branch of the Communist Party. http://www.biography.com/people/angela-davis-9267589#academic-career Again a bit too radical for me but a very important influence in the 60s.
Turn turn any corner
Hear you must hear what the people say
You know there’s something that’s goin’ on around here
The surely, surely, surely won’t stand the light of day, no
And it appears to be a long
Appears to be a long, mmm
Appears to be a long time
Such a long, long time before the dawn
Speak out you got to speak out against the madness
You got to speak your mind if you dare
But don’t, no don’t, no, try to get yourself elected
If you do you had better cut your hair, mmm
Crosby, Still and Nash
