So you’re back again and we’re still in the year of 1965–we have looked at civil rights movement (as well at the war and the world’s status) now we’re going to other areas of that time so long ago, when I was just getting myself together for my assault on life….that eventually brought me here to tell you what’s it all about!
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
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And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
But not all marches were against the war as shown by the 25,000 pro-war and LBJ supporters who marked in Washington led by five Congressional Medial of Honor winners supporting the president, the war and patriotism.
It was in 1965 that Draft Card burning first became a common protest against the war and the first arrest is made of a burner was made in New York City at the Catholic Worker’s Movement in Manhattan.
And non-violence reached a new level when a Quaker protesting the War at the Pentagon set himself on fire followed by a Catholic Worker’s Movement Member outside the UN in Mahattan in New York.
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
Now don’t get me wrong—there were positive things—-we are a big country and many of us never lost anyone in the war—and there was no fighting in the US—except for the crazy potestors and our own general crime issues—-so pretty much (mostly) it was business as usual.
The Space program continue to progress with Gemini 2 being launched on a substantial test of space craft systems and a month later Ranger 8 crashed on the moon and then Ranger 9 marked the last unmanned probe. By the end of the year Edward White had taken the frst space walk and Gemini 5 was launched.
On Broadway The Sound of Music is born and on closer home Playboy’s pages presented us with its first African American Playboy Playmate. My Fair Lady wins 9 Oscars including Best Picture and Actor Rex Harrison–but Mary Poppins, which won 5 awards, got the Best Actress Award for Julie Andrews and that’s a chem, chem my dears.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
In New York they reopen The World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows…while Bob Dylan (to the dismay of many fans) goes electric and releases Highway 51 Revisited and what some considers the greatest musical of all time The Man of La Mancha debutes..
Meanwhile in San Francisco a group that would eventually aspire to the stars becomes an airplane–The Jefferson Airplane. The British, in the form of the Beatles, returned to the US playing in Shea Stadium but while Shea witnessed hits another stadium witnessed none as Sandy Kaufax pitched a perfect game..but not as perfect as Yankee Stadium where the Pope (Paul VI) gave mass.
And we lost the title of world’s largest city (NYC) to Japan (Toyko) but gained The Days of Our Lives an NBC soap as well as A Charlie Brown Christmas on CBS. Both are amazingly still alive–one unchanged and one not—you figure it out.
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
This was the year that Mary Quant brought us the mini-shirt and the Grateful Dead premiered.
We watch an energetic Tom Jones sing”What’s New Pussy Cat” and laughed at Cat Ballou, while we read Dune and fell in love with Dr. Zhivargo starring a Russian who was really Egyptian.
And medically the respirator replaced the Iron Lung
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
But there were bad things beside the war and the Civil rights issues: April was deadly with the Palm Sunday Tornadoes, when 47-51 (depending on your source) funnel clouds touched down in 6 states killing at least 256 and injuring 1,500 others . In September Hurricane Betsy hit near New Orleans with 145 MPH winds and while there were no deaths there was $1.42 billion in damages which made it the first storm to cause a billion $ in damages.
And not all killers were natural–the killers featured in Capote’s In Cold Blood book were hanged in Kansas for killing 4 members of one family.
Meanwhile we got a new kind of disaster in November there was the Northeast Blackout affecting 7 states and part of Canada which were without electric for 13 1/2 hours.
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’ss namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’
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Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
The battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agein’
Please get outta’ the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’
