Describes twelve important events in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s, including the assassination of President Kennedy, the killings at Kent State, and the passing of the Civil Rights Act, and imagines how history might have gone had they not happened.
Alphabetically arranged entries provide a comprehensive overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, profiling key members of his administration and examining crucial events, policies, and issues of the era. Includes a chronology and a selection of primary documents.
A history of the 1960s, discussing the social, cultural, and grassroots political movements that defined the decade, including the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Civil Rights Movement; and providing information about some of the people who spurred the era of change.
the real story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's film JFK
Lambert, Patricia
1998
Tells the story surrounding New Orleans's District Attorney Jim Garrison's targeting of Clay Shaw for conspiring in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; charges that the case against Shaw was a complete fraud; and discusses Oliver Stone's 1990 movie "JFK" based on Garrison's version of events.
the sixties experience in the words of those who lived it
Morrison, Joan
2001
Fifty-nine Americans recount their memories of the 1960s; includes Peace Corps workers, soldiers, antiwar activists, feminists, members of the Black Panthers and Students for a Democratic Society, and others. Also includes Kent State students who were at the university the day that the Ohio National Guard fatally shot four students in 1970.
Inspired after meeting John F. Kennedy at a 1960 campaign fundraiser hosted by the Aldrich family, Chuck defies authority at his Pennsylvania boarding school, Sojie takes part in lunch counter sit-ins in Georgia, and Dick finally connects with his father in Hollywood.
Tells the story of fictional civil rights leader John Calvin Marshall's brief, turbulent, charismatic life in four alternating voices: that of his wife, Andrea; Lisa Adams, his aide and mistress; Bobby Card, a southern civil rights leader; and his own.
Reprints twenty-two notable speeches of the 1960s in which the speakers address issues of the Cold War, Cuba, communism, civil rights, the space race, the Great Society, the counterculture and student activism, and the Vietnam War.
