Counterculture Timeline: The High Sixties: Magical Mystery Tour 1967 - 1968 |
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| 1967 |
Bellbottoms and other inexpensive clothes from army-navy surplus stores become popular. | 1967 Life magazine - September 13 - John on cover |
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| fall | 40 large campus demonstrations against military and Dow recruiters | |||
| Sept 1 | Beatles: Magical Mystery
Tour album |
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| Sept [SOPH xx] |
500,000 [US soldiers??] in South
Vietnam, 600,000 in Southeast Asia Tom Hayden & 30 Americans meet North Vietnamese leaders in Czechoslovakia; Hayden goes on to Vietnam to help return three U.S. P.O.W.s (to Nov 11) Boomers born in 1949 are turning 18 & enter college Beatle John Lennon writes "I Am The Walrus" on acid Sept? Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu, stays in India & follows him until he meets his guru |
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| Sept 15 | Donovan at Hollywood Bowl (must
be + touch-feel entrances?) xx |
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| Oct 2 | Dead House at 710 Ashbury is
busted |
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| Oct 3 | Woody Guthrie dies (Huntington's
Chorea) |
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| Oct 4 | Psychedelic Shop closes and
the Thelins go to Washington DC for the Exorcism of Pentagon |
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| Oct 5 | [Lawrence Lipton starts class at UCLA xx] | |||
| Oct 6 | Death of Hippie, Loyal Son
of Media, birth of free man |
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| Oct 8 | Che Guevara killed in Bolivia
(by troops trained in U.S.) |
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| Oct 9 |
First edition Rolling Stone
magazine (dated November 9, with John Lennon on the cover) put out by Jann
Wenner (21) after drop out from U.C. Berkeley [met with Chester Anderson of Communications Company in Los Angeles xx] |
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| Oct | Carl Stokes becomes first black
mayor of Cleveland Dylan recording John Wesley Harding |
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| Oct 6-12 |
LA Free Press headline: Why did you get up this morning? | |||
| Oct 11 &12 + ? | Teach-in at UCLA (with David Harris) | |||
| Oct 12 | "A Call to Resist Illegitimate
Authority", NY Review of Books 2,000 sign, including academics, clergymen, writers [The Draft p. 225 & 263] |
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| Oct 16-22 |
Stop the Draft Week: Anti-draft/draft-card
"turn-in" rallies: Chicago, Phil, Boston, Cincinnati, Portland;
organized by National Mobilization Committee, a broad coalition of pacifist,
religious, & radical groups Oct 17 - Joan Baez + 122 arrested
Oakland Induction Center |
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| Oct 28 | 5 a.m.: Huey Newton (25) questioned
by police in Oakland "desolate district". One hour later under
arrest at hospital with gunshot wound in stomach. Few weeks later indicted
on murder of one officer (John Frey Jr.), wounding of another, & kidnapping
of bystander. |
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| Nov | Air war against North Vietnam
accelerated (bombing Hanoi) |
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| Nov 7 | General Hershey announces draft
crackdown on deferred college students who are active in anti-war demos |
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| Nov 9 | Apollo 4 (unmanned) [takes photos
of moon shadow on earth (?)] - "first US photo of whole earth" |
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| Nov 14 | 5,000 demonstrate outside New
York foreign policy banquet addressed by Secretary of State Rusk |
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| Nov 25 | "last flower-child hippie-type
demos in New York City - after this, demonstrations were militant" |
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Nov |
Don McCoy & friends start
community at Olompoli Ranch Cream: Disreali Gears / Judy Collins: Who Knows Where The Time Goes How I Won the War with John Lennon (directed by Richard Lester) A new strain of malaria hits GIs in Vietnam Life magazine: Police new riot weapons: "instant banana peel", "chemical mace", "tanks that shoot tear gas" The Graduate (directed by Mike Nichols) |
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| Nov 30 | Eugene McCarthy (Senator from
Minnesota) announces candidacy for President, running on anti-war platform was this the start of the People's Party? |
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| Dec 1 | Life: Return of the Red Man
[explain xx] |
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| Dec 2 | [saw Joan Baez at UCLA xx] |
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| Dec 4 | MLK announces Poor People's
Campaign in Wash D.C. (to start late spring) |
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| Dec 7 (or 5) | Beatles: opening
of Apple Shop, 94 Baker Street, London with murals by The Fool Black boycott of Olympics (announced?) |
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| Dec 5-8 |
"Stop the Draft Week"
at Whitehall, NY Army Induction Center 546/585 arrested, including Spock & Ginsberg + Madison, Manchester N.H., Cincinnati, New Haven |
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| Dec 8? | Otis Redding records "Dock
of the Bay", his only major hit |
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| Dec 10 | Otis Redding dies at 26 in plane
crash |
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| Dec 22 | Owsley busted in Orinda (stops
production of acid) |
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| solstice "people started
to leave for the country" |
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| Dec | Beatles: Magical Mystery
Tour released UK |
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| Dec 31 | Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin,
Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory & friends pronounce themselves "Yuppies" |
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| 1967 | end: 486,000 American troops
in Vietnam; Of the 15,000 killed, 60% died in 1967 |
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| 1968 | Number
of divorces, & divorce rate, both jump by 12% and start rise Charlie Hall, Hashbury, invents the waterbed as a school project Steve Gaskin starts the Monday Night Class in San Francisco Yogi Bhajan comes to U.S. to teach Kundalini Yoga (Healthy, Happy, Holy) Wiretapping becomes a federal crime Gun Control Act curbs sale of handguns Dec 67 - mid-68: first heart transplants Hong Kong flu (?the first flu brought back from Vietnam?) - Influenza pandemic (new gene combination) US scientists tell natives evacuated in 1946 from Bikini it is safe to return; by 1978, 139 who return found to contain dangerous levels of cesium & re-evacuated The dollar is worth 362 yen; Japan is still known for "cheap" trinket import items. SDS has 100,000 "members" Ivan E. Sutherland at University of Utah, invents first head-mounted Virtual Reality display, but powerful enough computer to use with it does not yet exist Wavy Gravy and others run a pig named Pigasus for President Carnegie Hall: Tribute to Woody Guthrie (Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Odetta, Richie Havens, & Dylan with The Band - Dylan's first public appearance since accident in July 1966) when? Biafra "Gold crisis" [1969 almanac p. 72] |
1968
MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Abraham, Martin & John *RS: Beggar's Banquet (Honky Tonk Woman) ?Beatles: White Album [or was this 69?] Hey Jude; Lady Madonna ?? Revolution / Get Back Dylan: John Wesley Harding *The Band: Music from the Big Pink *Donovan: From a Flower to a Garden & Hurdy Gurdy Man Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge over Troubled Water *Doors: Waiting for the Sun (July 1968) *Hendrix: Axis Bold As Love -&- Electric Ladyland *Fleetwood Mac *Steve Miller *Quicksilver Dr. John: first solo *Sly and the Family Stone Creedence Clearwater Revival ------ "Heavy Metal": *Blue Cheer *Iron Butterfly *Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat *Deep Purple ------ *Moody Blues *Electric Flag *Blood, Sweat & Tears *Seatrain (formed from Blues Project) ------ from UK: *Jeff Beck Group *Traffic *Joe Cocker *Bonzo Dog Band *Pentangle -------- *Joni Mitchell (first) *Leonard Cohen *Randy Newman Taj Mahal ?Cream [at UCLA May 68] Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airma?n moves from Detroit to SF (?Roberta Flack) Big Brother and The Holding Company with Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills (featured a cover illustration by Robert Crumb, then a little known illustrator living in Haight-Ashbury) - August Marvin Gaye: I Heard It Through the Grapevine / Judy in Disguise (with Glasses) / Green Tambourine / Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild Z If . . . (UK - Lindsay Anderson) Yellow Submarine April 3 - 2001 directed by Kubrick April 29 - Hair opens on Broadway (Planet of the Apes, Barbarella) ??I Am Curious - Yellow (Rosemary's Baby - start of satanic children movies) Godard: One Plus One (last symbols movie) The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary - James Simon Kunen first Zap Comix Tom Wolfe: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Eldrige Cleaver: Soul on Ice ?Abraham Maslow: Towards a Psychology of Being Dr. Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan Akwesasne Notes starts publication Tiny Tim Peter Max "Unisex clothing" Aerobics - Dr. Kenneth Cooper (first use of the term for exercise) Jogging Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Forty heart transplants Joan Baez marries David Harris and David Harris starts 3 year jail sentence for refusing to register for the draft Auroville Cooperative, India, founded Ananda Cooperative Village, Nevada City, California, founded This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend The end of our elaborate plans The end of everything that stands The end No safety or surprise The end I'll never look into your eyes again Can you picture what will be So limitless and free Desperately in need of some stranger's hand In a desperate land "spring: Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger dope bust cases" xx |
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| Jan-May | 40,000
students participate in 221 major demonstrations on 101 campuses |
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| Jan | The Peace
and Freedom Party, which was founded on June 23, 1967 by people who wanted
to vote for something they could support, runs a massive voter registration
drive placed the Peace and Freedom Party on the California ballot. http://www.peaceandfreedom.org Many hippies register to vote for the first time. Eldridge Cleaver becomes the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for President |
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| Jan 2 | Federal: bilingual
education |
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| Jan 5 | Spock, Coffin,
Mitchell Goodman, Michael Ferber, & Marcus Raskin indicted for delivering
draft cards (Oct) |
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| Jan 9 | Beatles Avedon
photos/posters appear in Look magazine (they had also appeared in Stern
magazine in Germany in 1967) |
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| Jan 16 | Youth International
Party (Y.I.P.) founded - Country Joe & Fish, Fugs, Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie,
Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, Phil Ochs, Jerry Rubin (25 artists, writers
& revolutionaries) |
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| Jan 18 | Eartha Kitt
visiting LBJ at White House speaks out against the war |
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| Jan 22 | B-52 carrying
H-Bomb crashes in Greenland [saw The Committee xx] |
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| Jan 23 | Pueblo seized
by Korea |
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| Jan 24 | [saw Ravi
Shankar again xx] |
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| Jan
31 [--> xx] |
Viet Cong
launch Tet Offensive - (to Feb 24) 70,000 Viet Cong troops attack 100 S.Viet cities "start of the turnaround" + picture of police chief shooting Viet Cong in head [Fred's: light shows xx] |
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| Feb
2 Feb 4 |
[Jeff's party
at empty house xx] [saw Arlo Guthrie at the Troubadour xx] |
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| Feb 9 | Free Press
headline: In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king |
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| Feb 16 | Draft deferments
for most grad students & all occupational deferments eliminated |
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| Feb 17 | Second Tribal
Stomp |
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| Feb | Leary evicted
from Millbrook house Feb 21 *Beatles to India to visit Maharishi (at Rishikesh on the Ganges) also there: Mia Farrow, Donovan, Mike Love of The Beach Boys; Ringo stays 10 days, Paul 9 weeks, John & George 3 months; "get off drugs for the while and write the White Album" (& Maharishi Mahesh coming to US - when?) |
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| Feb 29 | RFK &
Javits, New York's Senators, speak out |
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| when? | Morning Star
Ranch busts -> Wheeler Ranch opened to settlers winter Bill Wheeler (28) opens nearby Sheep Ridge Ranch (Wheeler's Ranch) (320 acres) for people to live on the land |
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| Mar 2 | RFK speech
to Congress about Vietnam |
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| March 8 | Fillmore East
opens in New York City (to June 27, 1971) |
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| Mar 8-9 | Warsaw student
uprisings, March 11 workers uprising |
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| March
[first trip to Berk + Fillmore xx] |
Hue bombed
to rubble in "25 days of horror" to retake from VC / during
"peace feelers" (including Mylai massacre March 16: 200
- 500 villagers killed) McCarthy's "Children's Crusade": thousands work on New Hampshire primary, calling on nearly every voter in the state |
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| Mar
12 [started poetry class xx] |
10,000 students
go door to door in heavy snows; Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote, overtaking President Johnson, & causing RFK to "reconsider" on Vietnam (& LBJ not to run, sez Great Expectations p.113) |
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| Mar 16 | RFK declares
candidacy for Presidency |
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| Mar 19 | President
Johnson's advisors advise getting out of Vietnam war |
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| Mar 22 | (first N.Y.
YIP event) |
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| Mar 23 | The Kaleidoscope
Is Turning On - Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Buffalo Springfield (Sunset Strip: the Hullabaloo became the Kaleidoscope in 1968, more emphasis on light shows, for people who were on acid. It finally folded and then ["mid-October"] became the Aquarius, which is where Hair had its big L.A. run) |
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| Olympic boycott |
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| Mar 31 | LBJ announces
decision not to run again and offers partial bombing halt and appointment of Averell Harriman to seek negotiations |
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| Apr 1 | Supreme Court
extends one-man, one-vote doctrine to local governments ?Baker vs. Carr
-> reapportionment |
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| Apr 4 | Martin
Luther King Jr shot and killed, at Memphis motel, 7 p.m. during Poor People's Campaign (39 years old) |
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| Apr
4-11 |
within two
hours after MLK Shot and killed: Black uprisings Chicago, Baltimore, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toldeo, Pittsburgh - 125 cities in 29 states total |
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| Apr 6 | Eldridge Cleaver
arrested with a bullet-shattered leg during Oakland police ambush on Panthers + Bobby Hutton (17) shot and killed |
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| Apr 11 | LBJ signs
civil rights bill banning housing discrimination (with anti-riot felony
amendment) |
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| Apr 11 | Major call-up
of reserves for duty in Vietnam |
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| Apr 14 | (Easter Sunday)
[Love-in Malibu Canyon xx] Peak of demonstrations in West Berlin against Axel Springer & his publishing empire, after assasination attempt on Rudi Dutschke ("Red Rudy") |
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| Apr 15 | Spring Mobilization
against the war |
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| Apr
23-30 |
New York City:
Students take over five Colombia University buildings protesting
University's affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analysis and its
Pentagon-related research, and construction of athletic facility opposed
by neighboring Harlem (Mark Rudd becomes famous as leader); 700+ arrested,
Apr 25 Demonstrations closed down Columbia University; strike continues for another month April 26: Up to one million college and high school students boycott classes in a nationwide student strike against the war. - http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story1_1_07.html |
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| Apr 25 | Paul Horn
records in the Taj Mahal [Apr 26 - to see The Committee again] |
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| Apr 29 | Rev. Ralph
Abernathy succeeds MLK as President of Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| Ap/May | Black Panthers
start Free Breakfast for Children program |
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| May
2-14 |
France: street fighting in Paris / "May 3-14 Sorbonne occupied" | |||
| May
2-17 |
SCLC Poor
People's March on Washington 3,000 erect Resurrection City, tent city on the Mall |
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| May 7 | [saw Firesign Theatre xx] | |||
| May 12 | [Mike Bloomfield
at UCLA xx] |
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| May 13 | US & North
Vietnam begin talks in Paris |
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| May
13-30 |
France: Sorbonne
demonstrations: humanism vs technology French students occupy the Sorbonne Demonstrations in Madrid, Rome, Berlin, New York, & Czechoslovakia (?"Prague Spring") |
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| May |
Two Virgins: Lennon & Yoko
naked - explain xx - "recorded in April, after which, Yoko moved
in and divorces and remarries" Beatles launch Apple Corps
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| May 21 | Tom Donahue
& djs from KMPX start [new format at] KSAN Second mass arrest at Columbia University |
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| May 22 | H. Rap Brown
of SNCC convicted for carrying weapon across state lines |
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| May 24 | France: "general
strike by half the work force" (or was this just Paris?) Philip Berrigan & Tom Lewis sentenced to 6 years May before or after? Philip Berrigan, out on bail, and brother Daniel, a Jesuit priest, and seven others remove records from Catonsville, Md. draft board office and set them on fire outside in the presence of reporters and onlookers |
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| May 28 | McCarthy wins
over RFK in Oregon primaries |
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| June 3 | Andy Warhol
shot at the Factory, off Union Square, New York, by feminist [Centinela house xx] |
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| June 4 | California
primaries: RFK wins |
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| June 5 | Robert
F. Kennedy shot and killed(42), Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles (Sirhan Sirhan arrested) |
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| June 8 | James Earl
Ray (accused of MLK murder), arrested London |
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| June 9 | [Free Clinic] [Ash Grove: John Fahey] |
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| June 14 | Spock, Coffin,
Ferber, Goodman convicted of conspiracy for "draft counseling" |
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| June | Oldest
baby boomers (born 1946) graduate college Boomers born 1950 turn 18 & graduate high school [moved into Centinela house xx] [June 9 Free Clinic xx / Ash Grove: John Fahey] |
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| June 25 | Poor People's
Campaign March - 50,000 march from Georgia to Washington D.C. |
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| June | Libre, Colorado
community founded |
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| summer |
early - Hayden to Paris to
confer w North Vietnamese representatives |
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| July 4 | Bill Graham
first concert at Fillmore West (Van Ness & Market) [psil 1xx] |
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| July | Yellow Submarine
movie - premieres in London July 17 Haight Ashbury riot (including Bank of America burning --> leads to H.I.P. boarding up their stores Wallace campaign Pope's birth control encyclical Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed Operation Breadbasket, Chicago, begins with boycott of A&P stores over discrimination in hiring, with Jesse Jackson, 27, ?as head? U.S. Viet tropps increase by 19,000 to 535,000 Peace & Freedom Party campaign going on: Cleaver for President [later: Dick Gregory??] |
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| July
23-24 |
Cleveland black uprising | |||
| July 31 | Beatles: Apple
Boutique closes |
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| August | McGovern
enters the race for President (August 10) Cream: Wheels of Fire First Apple release: Beatles: Hey Jude & Revolution 1000 meet in prayer before UN for food aid to Biafra Panthers Tommy Lewis, 18 & Steve Bartholomew, 21 and ?Arthur Morris, 28, shot to death by police in Los Angeles |
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| Aug
20-21 |
Soviet tanks invade Prague, Czechoslovakia with 200,000 troops | |||
| Aug
25-29 |
Democratic
Convention in Chicago: demonstrations & police riot 10,000? demonstrators vs. 11,000 Chicago police; 6,000 National Guard; 7,500 U.S. army troops; and 1,000 FBI,CIA & army/navy intelligence services agents (Humphrey nominated on platform supporting the war) (Aug 27 candlelight, matches at Yippie Festival concert, coliseum) |
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On to The High Sixties: Spaceship Earth 1968-1969 |
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