Counterculture Timeline: The Late Sixties: Keepin' on Truckin' as the US's False Prosperity Dissolves 1971-1972 |
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| 1971 | 1971 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Sticky Fingers Hendrix: Cry of Love & Rainbow Bridge John Lennon: Imagine *Joni Mitchell: Blue *Carole King ?Tapestry? *Carly Simon *Cat Stevens *Elmerson, Lake & Palmer *Herbie Hancock *Weather Report *Tyrannosaurus Rex *Earth, Wind & Fire ("Funk") Led Zeppelin "more popular than Beatles": Stairway to Heaven (*Bob Marley & the Wailers: first) Alice Cooper group TV: All In The Family (starts Jan. 12) (runs to 1979) produced by Norman Lear A Clockwork Orange directed by Kubrick The Last Picture Show Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols) Harold & Maude Klute Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle) Gimme Shelter (Altamont movie) Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg) ?King of Hearts re-release (is this when?) El Topo (Alexandro Jodorowsky) Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera "worldwide success" (The Exorcist) UK: Sunday, Bloody Sunday (The French Connection) (Play Misty For Me) Michael Harrington: The Other America: Poverty in the United States Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch (US publication) Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe Carlos Castaneda: A Separate Reality Be Here Now: Baba Ram Dass, Lama Foundation Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Dee Brown (sez EWJ) The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Joseph Chilton Pearce The Massage Book - George Downing Another Roadside Attraction Love Story Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth East West Journal, Brookline, Massachusetts Vitamin C Hot Pants men's shoes with heels ?Day-care centers Christiania free city founded in Copenhagen Helen Caldicott begins (successful) campaign to stop nuclear atmospheric testing in France Gray Panthers founded [fall 1971: back from Mexico T'ai ch'i classes King of Hearts Walkabout Rick's wedding xx Synanon restaurant "Feed Bag" Ramon's parties Bernie & Toni Lennon & the punching bag model ] |
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| Feb | Price of oil raised by OPEC;
prices of everything go up 16,000 South Vietnamese troops march into Laos with massive U.S. air support; "hundreds of thousands protest in Wash & SF"; Senate hearings start on army spying on private citizen Life magazine: photos of Vietnam [to Eureka: dance class / Chuck & Donna - going to town to do the laundry; baking + return to LA Feb 9 - day of the Sylmar/San Fernando earthquake >> Sa Mo xx] |
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| Mar 1 | Bomb explodes in Capitol men's
room; Weather Underground claims responsibility "in retaliation for
the Laos decision" |
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| Mar 8 | Supreme Court rules that objection
to a particular war is not sufficient grounds for conscientious objection
(Guy Gillette & Louis Negal? cases) |
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| Mar 11 | Puerto Rico: uprising University
of Puerto Rico |
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| Mar 15 | David Harris out on parole after
12 months in prison |
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| Mar 23 | Congress votes to lower voting
age to 18 - have earlier date for this xx |
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| Mar 29 | Calley convicted for
Mylai massacre Manson + 3 sentenced (to death) (after 9 1/2 month trial - longest in Calif history) |
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| spring | Abbie Hoffman releases Steal
This Book ?? spring Werner Ehrhard (sp?) holds first EST training (yes-1971) Homosexuals march in NY (see Life magazine December 1971) Berkeley elects first two "progressive" city council members + mayor (April?) |
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| April 19-23 | 1000+ Veterans demonstrate against
Viet war in Washington D.C., throwing their medals over the Capitol fence |
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| Apr 24 | 200,000 Veterans march -
Washington D.C. + San Francisco simultaneous march of 156,000 |
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| Apr | Retreat from Laos what's the
date? First China visit by US journalists since xx & U.S. table tennis team is invited to China Repub. Congressman Paul McCloskey talking of running against Nixon on anti-Viet war platform |
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| Apr 26 | 50,000 demonstrators (Vets?)
in Washington D.C. set up "Algonquin Peace City" (in West Potomac
Park) |
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| Apr 30 | Bill Graham announces closure
of Fillmore East and Fillmore West |
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| May 1 | Attempt
to blockade govt for a day; 5,000 District police, 1,500 Natl Gd & 8,000
fed troops start evacuating: 7,000 arrested [another source: "20,000 Natl Gd & police, 10,000 paratroopers"] |
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| May 3-5 |
1,200 arrested - final total 12,614 (record) | |||
| May 4 | Dollar crisis starts in Europe,
as five currencies are freed from parity with US dollar |
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| May [library again; fabric arts; fire place xx] |
England's former prime minister
Harold Wilson says LBJ could have ended the Vietnam war in Feb 1967 Philip & Daniel Berrigan indicted for "conspiracy to kidnap" a high government official ie. the President Gaskin's caravan arrives in Tennessee The Last Whole Earth Catalog French left joins Larzac farmers in protest against French government's planned expansion of military base Life: Rosie Grier does needlework Amtrak starts operations (182 trains to service 300 cities) Airlines start super cheap flights to Europe Bobby Seale released after charges of ordering murder of Black Panther Alex Rackley in New Haven dropped, out on bail on 4 year Chicago trial contempt charges |
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| May 11 | University of California at
Berkeley's student newspaper, the Daily Californian: front-page editorial: "Let's Go Down and Take the Park - Again" |
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| May 13 | "13 Black Panthers acquitted"
(is this the same?) (see May) |
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| May 15 | UC Berkeley: Protestors gather
around the fence around the land that was People's Park Afternoon: some throw rocks and set up barricades; police use tear gas to break up Three senior editors of The Daily Californian fired, but refuse to quit --> leads to Daily Californian newspaper moving off U.C. Berkeley campus (People's Park stays fenced off until November 1979. University suddenly announces plans to turn the parking lot into a student lot, which some feared might be the precursor to housing being built. A protest the day before the intended changeover turned violent, and then protesters broke up the parking lot surface themselves. In 2005, the land still holds People's Park, and neither side has given up. |
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| May 25 | Black Panthers Bobby Seale &
Ericka Huggins case dismissed (same as above?) |
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| June 3 | Fillmore East last concert [Goldman
on Lennon p. 405] |
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| June 10 | Mexico student uprisings |
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| June 11 | Indians ousted from Alcatraz
Island by Fed, after nearly 1 1/2 year - only 16 of 100 left |
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| June 12 | Demise of Whole Earth Catalog
party - $20,000 from last Whole Earth Catalog distributed |
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| June 13-15 | Pentagon Papers, secret Pentagon
history of the Vietnam war, copied by Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo,
appears in the New York Times |
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June |
American veterans
start admitting to US atrocities in Vietnam US starts dismantling biological arsenal huh? President Nixon announces he will visit China |
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| summer | Danish rock
festival, Amsterdam scene French secretly explode hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific |
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| July 2 | "closing
of the Fillmore" - Fillmore East closed |
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| July 3 | Jim Morrison,
27, dies in Paris |
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| Aug 1 | Concert
for Bangla Desh: Harrison, Clapton, Leon Russell, Ringo + Dylan, Ravi
Shankar (Madison Square Garden) |
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| 71? Aug | Pir Vilayat
sufi retreat at Chamonix, France (?first?) |
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| Aug 6 | Huey Newton's
second manslaughter trial ends in mistrial |
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| Aug | Marijuana
bust on The Farm - Gaskin takes responsibility Camden 28 raid draft board in Camden, New Jersey |
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| Aug 13 | John Lennon
& Yoko Ono check in to St. Regis Hotel (return to New York) and
become involved in avant garde art. |
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| Aug 15 | Facing rapid
inflation, Nixon declares 90-day wage/price freeze & takes US off the gold standard |
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| Aug 18 | Shootout Jackson,
Mississippi: hdqs of Republic of North Africa |
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| Aug 21 | George Jackson
(29) killed during San Quentin escape attempt, while about to face another
trial on charges of murdering a white guard |
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| Aug 24 | State Attorney
and 13 law officers charged with conspiring to obstruct justice in the investigation
of Chicago raid on Panthers of December 4, 1969 |
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| Aug 31 | Stephen Bingham,
29, lawyer to Jackson, charged with smuggling weapons into prison |
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| fall | when? Life: high school kids
concerned about security & order (Sara Davidson) [see Feb 4,
72] |
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| Sept | Attica Federal Prison: 5 day
revolt ends with 1000 state & local police & prison guards storming
the prison, 41 prisoners? dead John Lennon: Imagine - released |
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| Sept 16 | Japan: 5,000 farmers & students
battle 5,000 police in demo to prevent govt taking of land for Tokyo Intl
Airport at Narita |
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| Oct |
Last issue of LOOK Magazine Follow-up to 68 Kerner Commission report says if present trends continue in inner-city racial problems, "most cities by 1980 will be preponderantly black & brown, & totally bankrupt" Huey Newton returns to US to begin a new trial Drive to enroll 25 million new voters is getting 5 new Democrats to 2 new Repubs, influencing local elections; college towns get uptight Ed Muskie, Democrat, running for President |
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| Oct 16 | Eldridge Cleaver press conference
in Algiers to announce his return to U.S. (sez Ringolevio) H. Rap Brown, Pres SNCC captured after black bar hold-up, New York (with 3 St. Louis black men including Richard Moore & Eddie Josephs) after 17 mos fugitive (since May 1970) |
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| Oct 29 | Duane Allman (24) (of Allman
Brothers Band) killed riding motorcycle, Macon, Georgia |
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| Nov 5 | UN votes to seat (Red) China
(also saw as Oct 25 xx) |
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| Nov 11 | Rolling Stone: Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas by "Raoul Duke" (= Hunter S. Tjompson) with Ralph Steadman illustrations |
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| Nov 13 | Mariner 9 in orbit around Mars |
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| Nov | US pulling out of Vietnam (Nov. 11: 188,300 US soldiers left) under Nixon's "Vietnamization" withdrawal program Larzac, France: 6,000 march to protest expansion of NATO base |
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| Dec | First Ms. magazine |
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| Dec 2 | Dollar dives in reaction
to reports that Nixon is considering devaluation (326.76 yen; 3.289 Deutsche
marks) |
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| Dec 3 | War breaks out in Bangladesh |
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| Dec 10 | Rally for John Sinclair, Ann
Arbor: Phil Ochs, Bob Seger, Archie Shepp, Commander Cody, Stevie Wonder,
John Lennon and Yoko Ono - following Monday: John Sinclair released while appealing his conviction |
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| Dec 11 | Third retrial of Huey Newton
ends in mistrial |
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| Dec 14 | Detective Frank Serpico
tells Knapp Commission of widespread police corruption in New York |
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| Dec 17-18 |
Dollar devalued 8.57% | |||
| Dec 26 | 15 Viet Vets sit-in inside Statue
of Liberty to protest bombing |
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| Dec 28 | 80+ Viet Vets arrested Lincoln
Memorial, trying to block entrance with a human chain |
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| 1972
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Federal
Coastal Zone Management Act passed Airlines required to screen passengers & their luggage to prevent hijackings Over 300,000 black Mississippians, 59% of eligible, registered to vote Terrorist attack at Munich Olympics 1955 prize-winning public housing in St. Louis, Pruitt-Igoe, blown up due to delapidation and 65% unoccupency American Indian Movement (AIM) founded (sez EWJ - maybe only became known to greater public, see earlier xx) Erewhon natural foods opens retail and wholesale operations on West Coast Venturi & Brown: Learning from Las Vegas - marks displacement of modern architectural movement by post-modernism John Lilly founds Samadhi Tank Company in Grass Valley, California to build isolation tanks Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad: "Isle of California" (1616 Butler, Santa Monica) 1970-72 (shows remains of freeway ramp going nowhere after California falls into the sea) Skyjacking continues - 31 in US alone 1972? Native American fishing busts "Baby bust" |
1972
MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Exile on Main Street and summer tour Eric Clapton with Derek & the Dominoes McCartney touring with Wings *David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust (& The Spiders from Mars) Glitter Rock - New York *Lou Reed (from Velvet Underground): first solo *Blue Oyster Cult (Heavy Metal) *Uriah Heep (Heavy Metal) *Alice Cooper (Heavy Metal) *Yes Rare Earth? *Leon Russell: first solo *Chick Corea with Return to Forever *Eno *Fairport Convention (from UK) *Joni Mitchell: For the Roses *Bonnie Raitt *Steely Dan *Jackson Browne *Eagles Traffic: The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys Jethro Tull: Aqualung Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin Curtis Mayfield Don McLean: American Pie Bette Midler Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with country music stars: Will the Circle Be Unbroken TV: Sanford and Son (to 1977), Maude (to 1978) both produced by Norman Lear The Godfather (Coppola with Brando and Pacino) (first time regular movie prices are raised to over 4 dollars) Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci) Play It Again, Sam & Everything ... Sex - Woody Allen Brother Sun, Sister Moon (St. Francis of Assisi) Werner Herzog: Aguirre, The Wrath of God (not to US) Fassbinder: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Jodorowsky working on The Holy Mountain Grease "50s revival" Godspell Deliverance Fritz the Cat Deep Throat (seized Aug 18, ruled obscene Mar 73) UK: O Lucky Man (sequel to If...) Ms. Magazine starts (actually Dec. 71) I.F. Stone stops publishing The Weekly The Vegetarian Epicure (I) - The Joy of Sex - Alex Comfort The Massage Book - George Downing (I have this as 71) The Alexander Technique - Wilfred Barlow Carlos Castaneda: Journey to Ixtlan Mandala - Jose[/] & Miriam Arguelles Ringolevio - Emmett Grogan Jonathan Livingston Seagull (I have this as 70) (saw again as 72) Watership Down - Richard Adams First? Mother Earth News The Foxfire Book published, a compilation of reprints from quarterly Foxfire magazine, a teenage staff's reports on dying folk customs and arts of the Georgia Appalachians Filipino Food - Ed Badajos Joan Baez takes a year off to volunteer for Amnesty International Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess introduces the idea of deep ecology bikes "szechwan food" "below the knee hemlines" "use of Ms" Mark Spitz (Munich Olympics) & that Russian gymnast? Burt Reynolds "first" nude male portrait in Cosmopolitan |
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| Jan 10 | 2
black protestors in Baton Rouge killed in shootout with police during demo
+ 8 wounded (+ 2 white deputies killed) |
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| Jan 17 | New
Jersey Supreme Court ends death penalty |
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| Jan 25 | Shirley
Chisholm (Representative from Brooklyn, New York) becomes first black
female to seek major party's Presidential nomination |
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| Feb 18 | California
Supreme Court ends death penalty |
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| Feb 4 | Life
magazine: "Today's high school generation is interested in security,
stability, & comfort." |
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| Feb
21-28 |
Nixon visits China | |||
| Feb 23 | Angela
Davis is released (after 16 months) |
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| Feb 24 | Daniel
Berrigan released after 18 months of 3-year term (for Catonsville 9 xxx);
goes to Harrisburg where his brother Phil is on trial |
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| Feb 28 | Angela
Davis trial starts, San Jose |
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| Mar
[Bridget to Spain xx] |
Rodger
McAfee, 33, dairy-farmer in Caruthers, Calif., uses farm as collatoral to
pay Angela Davis's bail Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passes Congress (by year end, only 22 states have ratified) Mar? Raymond Yellow Thunder, Sioux, killed, Nebraska Immigration & Naturalization Service demands John Lennon's deportation |
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| Mar 22 | 13-member
National Commission on Marijuana & Drug Abuse recommends legalization
of marijuana |
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| Mar 27 | Soledad
Brothers acquitted |
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| Mar 30 | North
Vietnamese troops go south through the DMZ into South Vietnam |
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| Apr | Heavy
US bombing of North Vietnamese entering South Vietnam Demonstrators in Harrisburg, Pa. support Phil Berrigan and six co-defendents Apr? Mar y Sol rock fest Puerto Rico 30,000 McGovern wins Wisconsin Berkeley gets progressive majority (with 18-20 year old voters) Cotati - 25 year old female mayor and two city council members under 30 |
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| Apr 5 | Harrisburg
7 trial ends in mistrial after 11 weeks (this was for plotting to kidnap
Kissinger & blow up heating xxx ); only P. B. & Sister Elizabeth
McAllister declared guilty, and only of smuggling letters in & out of
prison |
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| Apr 15 | Nixon
& Canada P.M. Pierre Trudeau sign pact to clean up the Great Lakes |
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| Apr 15-28 | New
wave of antiwar protests on campuses & near military & defense-industry
installations - 100s of arrests across U.S. |
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| May 1 | Quang
Tri captured by North Vietnam |
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| May 2 | J.
Edgar Hoover dies (after 48 years as only the Director of FBI) |
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| May 8 |
bombing of Hanoi & Haiphong (Harbor?) |
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| May
[xx Art Center at night] |
Nixon
talks in Moscow, signs landmark nuclear arms pact University of Michigan protest against ROTC and protests on dozens of US campuses against the renewed bombing of North Vietnam i.e. Colombia when? Davis: protestors block train carrying military supplies when? Retreat in Vietnam May? First? Mother Earth News |
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| May 11 | District/Fed
Appeals Court overturns Chicago Seven (& 2 attorneys)'s contempt sentences
& orders trials on Hoffman's citations |
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| May 15 | George
Wallace shot, Washington D.C. & paralyzed, drops out of presidential
race Tom Donahue becomes director of KSAN |
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| May 18 | Phil
Berrigan back to jail (Danbury) to complete 6 year term for destruction
of draft records in Baltimore & Catonsville, Md. |
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| May 21 | Catholic
Lithuanian youth immolates self -> week of uprisings vs Soviet troops |
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| May 25 | Rolling
Stone: John and Yoko can't get new visas to stay in US |
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| June 4 | Angela
Davis acquitted (13 week trial) |
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| June 14 | Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA bans) DDT |
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On to The Seventies: The Watergate Investigation Years 1972-1974 |
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