And it’s been the ruin for many a poor boy and me
Oh God, I’m one

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Is when he’s on a drunk

The Beatles were the first of note to come to America, but once that door was open they poured in like an avalanche of sound and colors and accents similar and yet different with the Beatles’ Liverpool bit and the Stones and Who both from London, but their sectional area still making a difference.  We watched and I believe it was well over a year maybe two before I bought any non-British music–and before they’d came I had never bought a records (no CDs then sorry) and in fact the ’45 vinyl of I Want to Hold Your Hand was picked by my mum (a word that we picked up with all the British stuff) who had heard all the talk about the new group and thought I might like to try it….something my father insisted he never forgave her for.

The early groups (beside the Beatles of course)I remember were The Kinks,  The Stones–in the days before Mick pranced around the stage so much—if you want to see how he started all his acrobatics watch Tom Hank’s The Sixties On Demand—the one on the British Music —I had seen him go from basically holding the mike,  to his much more active stage presence and that show was the first I learned (years and years later) of that particular incident that change the Stone’s performance forever.  Of course the Who—and the performance at Wood Stock that I one can never forget (sorry I only saw it in the movie.  The Small Faces less known but there none-the-less and of course Bowie, whom we just lost, to name a few.  Even Jimi Hendrix who was American went to England where he got backing and upped his style to return to the US as a defining presence in Rock and Roll for ever.

It is said that London had met its peak by 1967 at least as the mover and shaker of the 70’s but as one who spent a bit of time there I can assure you that London was always  the Grande Dame—she just got down and funky in the 60s and like Marianne Faithful who was from a classy and rich family who sang and spent time as Jagger’s old lady before being wisked away to her old life—London never lost being cool, she just wasn’t 60’s cool or was less so over the years and then the 60’s went out–but in my book London is still very in.  But during the 60’s even we–or at least Time magazine called her (1966) “The Swinging City.”

Go tell my baby sister
Not to do the the things I’ve done

And as if fashion, life style and music weren’t enough there were also even a few movies–Like Dudley Moore’s “Bedazzled”   Venessa Redgrave’s “Blowup” and even an America’s effort  “To Sir With Love” introducing Lu Lu.  While the Rock Groups gave us “Ferry Cross The Mercy”  Gerry and the Pace Maker   The Beatles two:  “Hard’s Day Night” and “Help”  to name a few

But it wasn’t till the 1970’s that we got a Rock Opera (Tommy based on a song by the Who) from the UK.

So there you are a very short run down on what few things the little country of Britain (population 54 million in 1964) did to influence little ole us (Population 191.9 Million same year).  How the big trend setter like us were set back on our heels by the onslaught.  I heard one Brit say that the US had been sending them music for year and they just took that and made it into something a bit different and gave it back…and the youth of America sighed THANK YOU.

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That they call the Rising Sun

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That they call the Rising Sun
And it’s been the ruin for many a poor boy and me
Oh God, I’m one

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It’s hard to explain what happened to us–especially those of us who were young and rapidly become more confused at best–disillusioned  or at worst angry and outraged–if you weren’t there but I’ll try.

First there was the Cold War thing that had been going on since the (what do you call it–Hot War???) Second World War had ended in the 1940’s—we were rapidly approaching the 20th year of unofficial and while more isolated, still deadly to the participants–that ongoing idealistic (Communist vs Democracy) bickering.  But there did seem to be some positive things–mainly the US and Russia signing a treaty in January to ban atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons—which the Senate didn’t ratify until September, allowing it to go into affect FINALLY in October.

Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?

The Civil Rights issues which had just came to our notice so recently were now coming to a boil and they threatened to tear the country apart and they began with the beginning of the year and the inauguration of Alabama’s Governor George Wallace gave his “Segregation Forever” speech in January.  By April the SLC volunteers were staging set-ins and protests that were becoming bigger and bigger in that same capital and by April both Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy were  arrested and jailed for their participation.

Many whites formed up on both sides of the issue and those of us who were confused became even more so for we realized that while we might sympathize with the Black Americans who were involved, we had no real understanding on what it was like to be in the minority in this country of the supposedly free.   On June 11 President Kennedy proposed a Civil Right Bill and the next day Medgar Evers of Jacksonville, Miss., a 37-year-old NAACP field secretary was assassinated outside his home…it would take the government 30 years to finally convict Bryan De La Beckwith of his murder.

By August there was a march of 200,000 for jobs and freedom on Washington and it was here in the vicinity of the Lincoln Memorial that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.  But they got no justice when in September four black girls were killed and 22 others injured in what today would be called domestic terrorism when the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in the now infamous city of Birmingham was bombed .  This resulted in riots in the same city and the loss of two more black youths.  The rest of the nations held our breath waiting for more violence.  We were sympathetic for the loss, scared by the rioting.  My generation felt lost–we couldn’t vote, we were powerless while our country seemed on the verge and the destructive possibilities were frightening

Come on now
I hear you’re feeling down

And while we were watching the inner fighting the external was heating up as well with the loss of a major battle on the 2nd day of 1963 at the Battle of Ap Boc in South VIetnam.  By late October and early November the military government of South Viet Nam had been overthrown (some say with a lot of US support) and Ngo Din Diem was assassinated, making many people happier, but the country of South Vietnam in worse disorder than ever.

Culturally we were also being shaken and stirred.  Betty Friedam’s book The Feminine Mystic came out with such insights as: “Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.” which along with the pill put us into a feminine revolution not the least of which involved a sexuality that we had been warned about since we were small.    And our world was further involved and commented by many movers and shakers including a few “folk” singers lead by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

And if we weren’t confused enough Timothy Leary and other former Harvard men began their “research” into the use of LSD and other psychedelics.  Only the confused  could hope to find enlightenment by using a drug that totally scrambles the brain–interesting enough it has not been a real popular drug since our generation moved on.  Oh and there was a new hit in America and four British lads from Liverpool wanted to hold our hands…little did we know that before this would all be over that they would have our hearts and minds as well.  And if you think you’re confused you’ve only seen a summary of a bit of what we were dealing with.

Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again

And the worse was yet to come:  On November 22 an ex-military sniper stood on a grassy knoll  in Dallas, Texas and sited down the barrel of his rifle and fired a shot into a motorcade, ending the life and presidency of John F. Kennedy.  Later that day he would be captured by the Dallas police.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in a few hours later on a plane back to Washington with the president’s widow looking on.  These pictures are embedded in my mind forever…it was just before Thanksgiving and many of us believed Kennedy was all that was holding us together….I always being a bit cynical wasn’t so devoted to him, but none-the less I was shocked and deeply troubled at the toppling of the supreme head of our country and the disregard of that country and what it stood for that it implied.

And then on the 24th we received two more blows—first by the murder of Oswald by Ruby—the murder of the president’s killer by a middle aged club owner from Dallas…so much violence—and though few wept over Oswald many were disturbed by another disregard for human life.    The other incident was not so blatant, but would result in the long term in the death of so many Americans.  For 2 days after becoming president Johnson escalated our involvement in Vietnam and would continue to do so for some time to come.  Would Kennedy have done the same.  Many have voiced the opinion that this would not have happened under JFK, but I am not so sure—but I, like so many of the people in my time laid a lot of this all on LBJ.   But what ever the truth of the matter the death and the war’s escalation made us hate LBJ and feel abandoned by just about everyone…..we could not vote but we could die…..and in the street you would eventually hear the chant:  “Hey, hey LBJ how many kids have you killed today.”

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Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?

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There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying

When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
I can’t explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb

Okay
Just a little pinprick
There’ll be no more, ah
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it’s working, good
That’ll keep you going through the show
Come on it’s time to go

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb

1962 Brought with it a new Worlds Fair  the fair featured imagining the 21st century and included such things as plankton farms and the Pontiac Firebird of the future (see picture below) among other things.

It was a year were Jackie Kennedy show her abilities as First Lady with a trip to India.

And we showed ourselves as being a space power when we put a man, John Glen who would return to space many years later, into orbit for the first time.  He was followed shortly there-after by Scott Carpenter.

I’ll soon be with you my love,
To give you my dawn surprise

But what I remember of  ’62 is the Cuban Missile Crisis.  Now since we’d supported an invasion of Cuba, the Russians who had been playing for a hand that close to our shores (hey man we were in Europe in multiple bases since the war) and Cuba had gone from insisting they weren’t Communist to being much bolder and welcoming their Russian comrades with open arms and available missile space—while the K’s (Kennedy and Khrushchev) played good guy and bad,   Interestingly enough the Pope had excommunicated Fidel Castro early this same year.

By October of the year we were in a major confrontation between the two when on Oct. 22 the president went on National TV to announce the facts–that the Russians were putting a missile base in Cuba and a base where their plane were only 90 miles from the US (as in Miami).  It was Thanksgiving time and we were not feeling like we had much to be thankful for as the US Navy formed a blockade to keep Soviet ships from delivering their deadly cargo.

I can remember the growing tension as the ships came closer, it was all everyone was talking about and as the ships approached the tension got worse…I also remember when the first ship reversed its course on 10/24 and my relief at the announcement of the event….its was a scary time setting at the brink of a war of two countries with atomic weapons.  And to everyone’s further relief by the end of the month Kennedy had announced the US would not invade Cuba again and  Khrushchev had the missiles already up taken down and stopped their build-up in the Caribbean and while we were relieved we were far from assured.

I’ll be with you darling soon,
I’ll be with you when the stars start falling

Wilt Chamberlin had come into his own  and Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.  Meanwhile Mickey Mantle hit his 375th career home run and Porsche developed the 804 Formula 1 Racing car.   In the more gentile sport of golf Arnold Palmer won the Masters and to be honest, he was one of the few golf stars I would even have recognized the name of in this time and era.  Oh and a Russian newspaper took credit for the Communist country’s  invention of baseball “a very old” Russian game!

Stevie (who was still “Little” then) Wonder released his 2nd album, which was Uncle Ray a tribute to another blind musician Ray Charles and the Beatles were doing addition records in a not yet swinging England, resulting by late in the year their first recording Love Me Do being released.  The Twist was born, a dance I could do–being young and skinner had it’s plus points—and the same church that expelled Castro declared it evil and outlawed it in their schools…but 17,000 fans attended his dance party and got the bragging rights for the first BIG rock concert in the San Fran Bay Area and the Isley Brokers also twisted to a hit with Twist and Shout.  And this was the year the Beach Boy’s music first took us to the California surfing scene, if only in our minds for most of us.  And in far away Europe the Rolling Stones preformed under that name for the first time.   Peter, Paul and Mary released their first hit:  If I Had a Hammer.

A Clock Work Orange, which would go on to be a shatteringly violent movie made its first appearance as a book as did One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest which gave us the worse nurse ever and would help to make Jack Nicholas even more infamous in later days.  Then there was Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Girly Brown..OH MY…  The top movie of the year according to the Academy was West Side Story, a musical which did not get best song–that went to Moon River…and the two top actors were European (Sophia Loren/Two Women & Maximillian Schell/Judgment at Nuremburg).   In May she sang Happy Birthday to the President and by August  we had lost Marilyn Monroe but to suicide, accidental overdose or a Kennedy necessity depending on the TV show or book you view now.  But in 1962 we didn’t have the everything is a plot mentality soooo we just knew it was the drugs.  And Ernie Kovacs (whose motto:  “Nothing in moderation”  might well have served for the generation that was quickly coming into the lime light) died in a car crash.  Johnny Carson started a 30 year run on the Tonight show and Walter Cronkite, often felt to be the most trusted news man that ever set an anchor position, began his long reign as on CBS.  Oh and I can’t the play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum debuted –though I would have to wait for the movie .  Meanwhile Andy Warhol opened his first solo show.   While the Jetsons and the Beverly Hillbillies  premiered on the small screen and Lawrence of Arabia on the big one.

I’ve been waiting so long
To be where I’m going

The environment began to come forward as an issue  with the advent of a book about pesticides and what they were doing to our planet—it got several of us teen’s attention.

The Black movement continue to gather ground but not without blood shed and violence.  James Meredith tried to enroll at the University of Mississippi on 9/20….by 10/1 he was enrolled as a transfer student, during that 10 days of time from starting to enrollment, his enrollment was blocked by the governor, the president became involved and when negotiations didn’t work, Federal Marshals were sent in—the resulting riots killed 2 students and injured 160 marshals in the less two week period.   There were other actions such as the Bus Boycott in Macon, Georgia.  The Phillie’s baseball club moved from one hotel in Clearwater Florida to another outside the  city when the first one refused to house black players.  There were destroyed churches and violence and Martin Luther King was involved in many demonstrations resulting in multiple arrests.

June of 1962 saw the first SDS (Students for A Democratic Society) held convention….though much note was not made of them then they would go on to become the poster child for the radical side of the youth movement for change and peace in the 60’s .  They had earlier in the year (Feb.) been part of a Harvard activist’s (Todd Gitlin)  national anti-war rally in Washington, DC. attended by 8.000 students and during which the SDS organized the first anti-nuclear march.

In the sunshine of your love

1962 marked the beginning of the use of Agent Orange, a code name for a herbicide/defoliant, by the US military in Vietnam.  The chemical was sprayed to reduce and remove jungle foliage to reduce Viet Cong hiding places as well as destroy North Vietnam crops later in the war.   To this day I am not sure that we know—and if we do they’re not telling the majority of the rest of us—-how many were injured by this chemical agent–both on their and our sides.    Also in Vietnam—as of  March of ’62 the US advisors went from advisory to combatant activities –the same month saw the Russians requesting our departure from  the country.    In May US troops were sent to Thailand and Marines to Laos.

1962 marked the beginning of the end for Alcatraz Maximum security prison housed on an island in a harbor and Adolph Eichmann,   Gestapo official and Nazi war criminal, was hanged near Tel Aviv, Israel, for his role in the Nazi murder of over one million Jews.

And this was the year that the supreme court outlawed prayer in public schools as unconstitutional.

I’m with you my love,
The light’s shining through on you

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INTO the 60’s now for sure…and things were coming that would change my (and a lot of other people’s as well) world forever…

We were still in the middle of an active cold war but Europe was no longer the only place that were pushing the violence mode:

Attacks from Muslim extremist aren’t new—But the reason was different.  Algeria was under French colonization and trying to seek their independence, a subject the French didn’t care to consider and the Algerian activists answered by setting off bombs in the French capital and randomly killing Paris policemen.  The Police answered with a crackdown of Algerian residents and searches of their areas for bombs resulting in death for several of the residents, this continued and when in October, 30,000 Algerians demonstrators defied the curfew and gathered along the Seine to protest, the police turned their guns on them.  Officially 3 were listed as dead and 16 wounded, but the witness’ reports of multiple bodies floating in the river contradicted that.

In Africa the Congo (currently Zaire) had gained it’s independence from Belgium in 1960, and by ’61, there was a major Soviet involvement which split the government apart and resulted in the death of Dag Hammarskja, the second Secretary-General of the United Nation who along with 15 others were killed in a plane crash on their way to negotiate a cease fire.  I can remember that it seemed to me that the world had stopped at this disaster and the death of the Secretary General which was practically all that was on the news for days.  This would go on for years and eventually involve and Ameican and Belgium intervention among other things in the 1960’s.

Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

And we had a new kid on the block–President John F. Kennedy who got his first international hot spot with Laos—a country that outgoing president Eisenhower and his administration had set up to provide a barrier to Communist China and North Viet Nam.   By the time Kennedy took office the country was shattered and in the midst of a conflict between 3 separate fractions (one supported by the US, one by the Russians and one neutral).  He avoided invasion and brokered a cease fire which happened but proved to be an aid to the Communists…this would continue on through 1963.

While Kennedy was brokering a delay in the inevitable (though we didn’t know it at the time) he also got caught up closer home in a disaster called the Bay of Pigs.  This mess involved the CIA and an invasion of the Communist, under Fidel Castro, Cuba by American trained Cubans refugees.  I have heard much about this since it happened and I can remember it coming to us in bits and pieces at the time.  It appears that despite the advise that Cuba wasn’t a real threat to the US, he rather took the CIA’s advise and assurances  and the US government and the President himself were left in the lime-light of guilt and failure.

Kennedy did have something good to claim as his own that year when in March he signed an executive order creating the Peace Corp.  I can remember the wonder that brought to many people and thousands volunteered.   By September the Congress had signed on and there was funding.

Aquarius
Aquarius

’61 was the year we

lost Gary Cooper but gained West Side Story.

It was the year I entered High School–a boarding school, but I live close enough by to be able to catch a ride which I did and so was more exposed to the world than  would have in the confines of a strict religious institution.

We were starting to realize that there was more than just the average kids that needed education.  The Teacher of the Deaf Act was enacted to train teacher to be able to work with students who were deaf (now hearing impaired).

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding

In the town and the private school I was in there was little contact with blacks but this was soon to change.

This was the year that Motown  started making its bones and signed such acts as the Elgins who would become the Temptations; Stevie Wonder and the Primettes whom we know as the Supremes.  They released “Mr. Postman” this year by the Mavelettes and it would go on to hit the #1 spot on Billboard #1, their first #1.

It was the beginning of a long march to equality, which many of us didn’t realise that Negroes (what we said then)   did not have.  Organizations like Core, who sponsored Freedom Riders to protest segregation on public transportation.  The riders by the way were met by many with violence and abuse.

No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions

In 1961 the world reached a new milestone:  a population of 3 million.

I can remember the whole country stopped to watch or listen to the blast off and short sub-orbital flight of Allen Shepherd, the first man in space—a feat that gave America a reason to celebrate and was shortly followed by President Kennedy  begining  the Apollo program for manned space flight.

But it was also the year that we shuddered in a what next posture as the Russian cut off the boarder crossings and started to build what for many was the ultimate symbol of Communism–the Berlin wall and I remember the ongoing reports of those that made it over, under and about the wall and the death or imprisonment of many who didn’t.  And how our former enemies in German were now our fellow fighters of the great evil of the Communism.

Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind’s true liberation
Aquarius
Aquarius

Other notables in 1961:

Jane Fonda debuted on an NBC drama String of Pearls

China got it’s first atomic reactor

Poppin’ Fresh–the Pillsbury Dough Boy popped up

Bob Dylan opened for Johnny Lee Hooker, marking his first major performance…

Amnesty International a Human Rights organization was founded.

Rudolf Nureyev a Soviet Ballet star defected while in France

Hemingway committed suicide

Jimmy Hoffa became head of the Teamsters

And a trend stared with the hijacking of a plane to Cuba, which became a trend for which Kennedy signed a law making the practice a death penalty event.

And one of the hit songs was Rama Lama Ding Dong (nothing to do with Tibet)

Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in

Oh and least we forget in 1961:

President Kennedy provided assistance to South Viet Nam against those Communists including insurgents and Viet Cong– we mentioned in our last blog on 1960–  in the form of equipment and 3,000 Military ADVISERS and support personnel.

 American Military Helicopters and Personnel to maintain and operate them also arrived in South Viet Nam.

And Green Berets also had feet on the ground to train Viet troops

And so the plot thickens….though we weren’t aware of all this yet…or most of us weren’t.

Oh, let it shine, c’mon
Now everybody just sing along
Let the sun shine in

OUTLANDER getting thru without any new you:

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Ways to get through IT:  http://www.ibtimes.com/outlander-season-3-hiatus-guide-6-ways-get-through-longest-droughtlander-ever-2493298

Open up your heart and let it shine on in
When you are lonely, let it shine on

Got to open up your heart and let it shine on in
And when you feel like you’ve been mistreated

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Just open your heart, and shine it on in

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And finally the 60’s….but—-not yet the strange days that they would later emerge as being.  In fact 1960 dawned with more of the same and even I at 13 remembered the distress at the shooting down by the USSR (More commonly known today as Russia) of a U2 Spy Plane—and the capture of Francis Gary Powers it’s pilot.  Many years later I would hear a story from a retired pilot of his flights out of Alaska to spy on Russia, how he was shot down and how he walked many miles back along the end of the next to last to become a state for rescue.  But Powers became a symbol of the evil Russians….the fact that we were spying on them seems to have not been an issue with us….but hey I was young and hadn’t thought of that yet

On the other hand 1960 was the year we did beat the Russians in something::  the Olympics and in this case the Ice Hockey game when we unexpectedly took the game from the Russians and won the metal.  While I remember much talk about the downing of Powers I do not remember anything about the Ice Hockey….not exactly the victor a lot of us were interested in I guess.

But let me break the year down for you a bit better.

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