Counterculture Timeline 1968-1969

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Counterculture Timeline: The High Sixties: Spaceship Earth 1968 - 1969
	EVENTS	ARTS
1968 Sept 8	Huey Newton (leader Black Panther Party) convicted of voluntary manslaughter of Oakland policeman - 34 months in jail during trial for manslaughter in Oakland (released 1970)	1968 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING I remember a lot of people transferring to UC Santa Cruz in fall 1968 - but it apparently opened in 1965. xx
Sept [JR xx Gordon]	"Eldridge Cleaver banned from lecturing on U.C. Berk campus" US Stock Market starts 18 month +? downhill slide American Indian Movement (AIM) born as a volunteer street patrol to combat police brutality, Minneapolis by Dennis Banks, Russell Means, Clyde Bellecort & others (AIM) in Minneapolis, work towards improving living conditions for urban Indians when in 1968? Akwesasne Notes started by members of Mohawk Nation [Esalen, Big Sur, Garipota, UCSC, SF: John Mayall, Black Pearl, Mama Thornton, GGPk, Muir Woods, Monterey + xx]
fall	Women's movement groups start in Berkeley
Sept 18	Troops invade Mexico City National University (demonstrations since mid-summer)
Oct 2	After 9 weeks of student strikes, Mexican military opens fire on 6,000 gathered in housing project plaza (Tlatelolco Plaza) for march on National Polytech Institute to protest army occupation of campus; 28-200 killed, 200-500 wounded, 1500 jailed
Oct 3	Yippie Jerry Rubin arrives at HUAC's inquiry into Aug uprisings w a toy M-16 & a red, blue & yel cape resembling Viet Cong flag
Oct	Angela Davis, 26?, goes to jail [saw Eldridge Cleaver, & David Harris again xx) (early October - "a fortnight before Oct 18" - John announces Yoko is pregnant
Oct 18	Beatle John & Yoko arrested for possession
Oct	late- 4000 demonstrators at U.C. Berk after Regents deny credit for Cleaver's course
Oct 31 / Nov 1	LBJ orders halt to all bombing in Vietnam
Nov 5	Nixon defeats Humphrey (narrowest victory since 1912: .7% (43.4-42.7)) also Shirley Chisholm, first black female elected to Hse Rep (from NY) (Stock Market starts drop)
Nov 6	San Francisco State: strike called by students Pres. S.I. Hayakawa stations several hundred police on campus
Nov 11	Beatle John & Yoko release Two Virgins (photos?)
Nov	First Whole Earth Catalog Cream's Farewell Concert at the Royal Albert Hall ("a few weeks after late Oct") Cleaver flees to Algeria Priests from all over US meet in Wash to protest Pope's ban on contraception. Many start to renounce their vows ?Dr. Paul Ehrlich & Dr. Thomas Eisner found Zero Population Growth (ZPG) at Yale Beatle John & Yoko plead guilty to possession Nov 7-23 Yoko Ono's miscarriage (John sleeps on floor through the wait)
Nov	Hayakawa closes SF State for 8 days (reopens Dec 2) [Beatles: White Album - my notes xx]
Nov? Dec?	Emmet Grogan delivers payment to Fred Hampton in Chicago for (cooperation?) in the making of a movie called "American Revolution II"; Hampton later used this as a medium for forming the Rainbow Coalition [December: Encinitas xx]
Dec (1)	National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of Violence releases "Walker report" which censures Chicago Police for behavior during "Police Riot" at Democratic National Convention
Dec 2	New York City high school students uprising: Brooklyn +
Dec 3	Elvis comeback special on television: Guitar Man (his voice had changed) [and so had the times!]
Dec 13-16	San Mateo College closed
Dec 21-27	Apollo 8 with three astronauts circles moon ten times & takes photo of earth rising behind the moon on Dec 24

1969	1968-1969 - Peak of China's "Cultural Revolution" (1966-1976) Airplane hijackings reach peak (65 seized in 69) North Sea oil operations start (U.K.) Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio due to pollution SDS has 60,000-100,000 members in 1968-1969 SDS has all-time high of 304 chapters (Geo. Leonard p. 340) 150 community-based underground newspapers (Leonard p. 341) Charles Evers of Fayette, Miss becomes first black mayor of an integrated community in the south (doublecheck year) spring: 150 Navajos meet to oppose Peabody Coal Co strip mining when? 21 Black Panthers indicted for plotting to kill cops Life magazine: Black Is Beautiful SoHo became the new Bohemia stock market sags Los Angeles Free Press - 90,0000 + circulation San Francisco State student Charles Hall designs first waterbed Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad: Brooks Street Painting, on the back wall of Victor Henderson's Venice studio; and 15,000-square-foot Beverly Hills Siddhartha, on the exterior of The Climax, La Cienega Boulevard nightclub (painted out 1972 by new owner) "Internet born at UCLA" ? Model Cities program (must be earlier, under LBJ)	1969 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Beatles: Abbey Road (early October) Lennon & Plastic Ono Band: Give Peace a Chance Lennon & Ono: Two Virgins Harrison: Wonderwall Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed Rod Stewart Dylan: Nashville Skyline Great White Wonder (first Dylan bootleg) Baez: David's Album (late 69) Joni Mitchell: Clouds Santana Mother Earth (with Tracy Nelson) Dan Hicks Janis Joplin: Kozmic (with "Bobby McGee"?) Jim Croce Neil Young (from Buffalo Springfield) first solo Jethro Tull Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica Led Zeppelin King Crimson Chicago ? Jim Kweskin's Jug Band (with Maria Muldaur) "Heavy Metal": MC5 Black Pearl Grand Funk Railroad Miles Davis (Desmond Decker: The Israelites - pre-Reggae) "Aquarius" & "Let The Sun Shine In" + (from Hair) Elvis starts performing in Las Vegas TV: David Frost 1969-1972 Startrek ends after 3 years Fellini: Satyricon Midnight Cowboy; Alice's Restaurant; Monterey Pop; Easy Rider; Putney Swope; Medium Cool; Last Summer; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Goodbye, Columbus; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Oh! What a Lovely War; The Who pop opera film; Wild Bunch [recheck - have this earlier xx]; Butch Cassidy Life-Raft-Earth (Robert Frank) & when was the event? xx Vonnegot: Slaughterhouse-Five French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Sex But Were Afraid to Ask - David Reuben (more 70?) Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth The Strawberry Statement-James Simon Kunen I'm OK - You're OK - Thomas Harris (Eric Berne's transactional analysis) The Peter Principle - Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull Charles Bukowski: Notes of a Dirty Old Man Theodore Roszak: The Making of a Counterculture Dr. Elisabeth Kubler[.. on u]-Ross: On Death and Dying Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive - John Muir (?1970) Custer Died for Your Sins - Vine Deloria, Jr. Arcology: The City in the Image of Man - Paolo Soleri (Van Daniken) Stevie "first realistic book about black children" long skirts fall: maxi coats (floor length) first? unixsex haircutting salon 1969 Life magazine special issue on the 60s reprints whole earth photo* - get this xx
Jan	Jan 2 - (12) - 30 - Beatles record ?Abbey Road? & are breaking up "4 days before Jan 6": Newark police confiscate 29,850 album covers of New Virgins album, which was to be released Jan 6
Jan 6	San Francisco State reopens after 3 weeks (sic)
Jan 7	Gov. Reagan asks Calif legislature to "drive criminal anarchists & latter-day Fascists off the campuses"
Jan 8	San Fernando State 1,000 demo & attempt to occupy administration building San Jose: Teachers join State college strike
Jan 10	Apollo 8 photo of earth seen from space on the cover of Life magazine
Jan	Panthers John Huggins, 23 & Alprentice (?Bunchy) Carter, 26 shot to death in UCLA lunchroom [Corinne's party - probably Venice wedding xx] [Rochester House / Gordon]
Jan 19	Two women address the National Mobilization Committee about women's roles in the movement [Gitlin]
Jan 25	Prague: Jan Palach's funeral ("suicide")
Jan 28	Santa Barbara, California, oil well blowout (continues into midsummer)
Jan 30	Beatles last performance ever - on the roof of Apple Howard University: Medical school freshmen boycott anatomy courses until February ouster of department chairman
Feb	Four aquanauts descend 50 feet to a sea lab on the bottom of Great Lameshur Bay in the Virgin Islands, to live there 60 days Massive strike U.C. Berkeley for ethnic studies
Feb 5	Reagan declares state of extreme emergency
Feb 11	St. George Williams College, Montreal: 200 students smash computer with axes & set computer center on fire during sit-in protesting professors' racism
Feb 12	Howard University: law school protest
Feb 13	University of Massachusetts: 33 arrested at admin bldg sit-in
Feb 18-19	Howard University: building seized & boycott started
Feb 22	Rice Univ: 1,000 students & 200 faculty rally protesting presidential appointment
Feb 24-25	Pennsylvania State University: administration building occupied
Feb 27	U.C. Berkeley: police charge student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano leaders; University of Wisconsin (Madison): thousands rampage thru nine buildings over black enrollments; University of Chicago: march
Mar 2	Jim Morrison arrested - Miami (Dade County)
Mar	Chicago Eight indicted [Mill Creek: acid xx]
Mar 12	Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman
Mar 13	George Harrison's house raided & Patti busted for 120 joints [Lennon book says on the same days as McCartney marriage]
Mar ? 13	Secret bombings of Cambodia start: 3,650 B-52s drop four times the tonnage of bombs dropped on Japan in all of World War II
Mar 20	Beatle John & Yoko fly to Gibraltar & get married, then fly to Amsterdam (Hilton) "lie-in" for peace 25-31
Mar 24	Lennox Raphael's play Che is busted for obscenity two days after opening at the Free Store Theatre in Manhattan
April	Dylan: Nashville Skyline Beatles "Get Back" single released Creation of People's Park started on land near the U.C. campus, vacant for a year or two since houses bulldozed 1969 when? ASUC election: in large turnout, UC students vote to keep the land as a park
Apr 3	US Federal Reserve Board raises prime rate from 5 1/2 to 6% (highest in 40 years)
Apr 4	Smothers Brothers television show canceled `controversial' Also Bill Cosby television show canceled around this time Rowan & Martin 's Laugh-in starts around this time on television
Apr 4-6	Demonstations on the anniversary of MLK's death & anti-war: Chicago; Memphis (10,000 gather to pay tribute); New York (20,000+ up Fifth Ave, some with "33,000" armbands) (Is this the Bryant Park demo?)
Apr 9-18	Apr 9 Harvard: 300 led by SDS seize Univ Hall Apr 10 Harvard: Police called in; 37 injured, 200 arrested Apr 11 Harvard: start of 3 day student strike Apr 18 Harvard votes to make ?ROTC "extracurricular"
Apr 20	(Sunday) UC Berkeley: People's Park planted with grass and shrubs
Apr 22	Harvard faculty votes to create black studies program & give students vote in selection of its faculty City College of New York closed after black & Puerto Rican students lock themselves inside asking higher minority enrollment
Apr 23	Los Angeles: Ash Grove burns down (opened 1958)
Apr 24	AB-52 launch biggest attack on N? Vietnam Demos NY (Sixth Ave), Atlanta, Chicago, Calif - 40 cities Demos and strike at Cornell
Apr 27 (ca)	People's Park: swings, benches, more plants added; UC Berkeley announces that construction of playing field and parking lot will begin July 1
Apr 30	543,000 US soldiers in Vietnam - "highest number of the war"
May	Fifteen people enter Chicago central draft depository and destroy all records of twelve local draft boards and some files of eight others
May 3	Tom Donahue leaves KSAN
May 7	Lou Gottlieb deeds Morning Star Ranch to God - http://www.diggers.org/homefree/hfh_01.html
May 13	Nixon sends draft reform plan to Congress
May 14	US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns under fire for personal conduct (first in history)
May 15	4:45 a. m.: police disburse people around campfires in People's Park and within hours a fence has been put up around it. After noon rally: 3,000 people storm the park; evening: Reagan: "If it's a blood bath, then let it be now." Governor Reagan o rders gassing of U.C. campus 30 people shot, 28 others wounded, including Alan Blanchard blinded for life, Steve Carr, James Rector -> 17 days of street fighting - 150 demonstrators shot & wounded
May 19	Supreme Court overturns Leary conviction for crossing Mexico to Texas with mj - overturns 2 fed anti-mj laws
May 20	134 day class boycott of San Francisco State settled People's Park: James Rector (25) dies of gunshot wounds from May 15
May 21	People's Park: 30,000 march in honor of James Rector; ended when police in helicopters drop teargas on the rally
May 22	Colombia Univeristy, New York: 100 (SDS) students flee 2 bldgs after warrants (asking no military recruitment on campus, end to ROTC, black studies program) + Queens (NYC) & Cornell
when?	"Canadian government allows American military deserters to settle in Canada"
May 26	[Incredible String Band at the Troubadour xx]
May 26 - June 2	Refused passage to the US due to John's conviction for possession of hashish, Beatle John & Yoko flew to Canada and hold a "bed-in for peace" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal and write and record "Give Peace a Chance"
May 30	(Memorial Day) 20,000 people in People's Park - with permit; Flowers on the fences
May	Apollo 8 photo of earthrise over the moon published as US postage stamp & circulated widely, as Buckminster Fuller is using the term "spaceship earth"
June	June 6 - Life magazine: Apollo 10 photos of moon and of the earth in space Berkeley Ecology Center (first in U.S.) opens Progressive Labor Party takes over SDS, Weathermen born Prime? rate 7 1/2 to 8 1/2% (third hike in 69) Commencement protests anti-Vietnam war + (Brandeis, Yale, Wesleyan +++) Brown University: two-thirds of graduating class turn their backs on Henry Kissinger's address UC Berkeley: Regents go ahead with plan to turn People's Park lot into parking lot & playing field
June 8	Nixon announces withdrawal of 25,000 troops from Vietnam (of 540,000) by Aug 31
June 28	Police raid of Christopher Street, New York bar sets off Stonewall Riots --> start of gay liberation movement
July 3	Brian Jones (25) of Rolling Stones dies - also saw as June 2
July 7	Charles Ever sworn in as first black mayor of biracial town in Mississippi since Reconstruction (Fayette)
July 9	Canada language bill signed, giving right to use either French or English
July 11	Spock & Ferber's 68 conviction overturned by First Circuit Court of Appeals, Boston & Coffin & Goodman cases sent back for retrial
July 14	Activists storm People's Park and confront police, but no serious injuries
July 18	Senator Ted Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick (Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, killed) Life magazine: The Youth Communes
July 20	Apollo 11: Armstrong & Aldrin: HUMANITY'S FIRST WALK ON THE MOON & earthrise from the moon photo taken
July 28	John Sinclair, leader of rock 'n' roll group MC5, Michigan and White Panther, goes to prison for selling mj (27 months --> )
after mid-July	through August - Beatles recording Abbey Road Yoko in studio in bed (due to injuries from car crash)
summer	Gaskin's travels -> The Farm founded, Summertown, Tennessee (last Newport Folk Festival)
summer & fall	In the wake of the success of Easy Rider, Hollywood briefly opens up to new, young, low-budget filmmakers - closes up again by summer 1970 [Didion]
when?	Cleaver (still) in Algeria & Carmichael in Guinea
July 31	People's Park paved over as parking lot; no one seems to pay attention (sic)
August	Blind Faith forms, with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker from Cream and Steve Winwood from Traffic Sonoma County sends bulldozers onto Morning Star Ranch to remove structures Bay Coast and Development Commission established to protect San Francisco Bay, through the energies of three women, and the collection of 280,000 signatures on a petition [saw Crosby, Stills and Nash xx]
Aug 9	Roman Polanski's wife Sharon Tate (26) & LaBiancas found murdered
Aug 17-	weekend Woodstock Festival, New York: 300,000 / 400,000 [Great Expectations] Richie Havens, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Creedance Clearwater Revival, The Who, The Band, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix
Aug 20	Oakland, California: Bobby Seale, Natl Chair Black Panther Party, arrested for New Haven murder of former Panther Alex Rachey (suspected black informer) (charges eventually dropped)
Aug (31)	last Sat & Sun Isle of Wight Festival: 200,000 including Dylan with The Band, Joe Cocker, the Who, Moody Blues (second time festival was held, first (smaller) was in 1968)
On to The High Sixties: Moratorium and The Strike 1969-1971