Category Archives: Vietnam War

When Martin Luther King Came to Harlem

Posted on January 17, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Less than a year before his assassination, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. came to Harlem. In the June 22, 1967, Village Voice, contributor Marlene Nadle observed the crowd anxiously awaiting the Baptist minister’s arrival: ‘Using programs folded accordion style instead … Continue reading →

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Greenwich Village Theater in the 1960s

Posted on December 24, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… In the 1950s, the West Village and, later, the newly designated, edgier East Village (rebranded from the northern part of the Lower East Side around 1964) became the cradle of New York’s Beat generation, with its new, raw, and … Continue reading →

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Oz

Posted on December 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Oz was an independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s. While it was first published in Sydney in 1963, a parallel version of Oz was published in London from 1967. The Australian magazine was published … Continue reading →

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Marguerite Duras

Posted on December 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) is one of France’s most important and interesting intellectual figures. She excelled at being a writer, filmmaker and dramatist. After the Second World War she also worked for a number of years as a journalist for France-Observateur. … Continue reading →

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The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino (1978), Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick (1987), Apocalypse Now Redux – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)

Posted on November 21, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian-American steelworkers whose lives were changed forever after fighting in the Vietnam War. The three soldiers are played by … Continue reading →

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Nathan Gelgud – Unconventional, Part 1: Ed Sanders and the Liberal Puritan

Posted on November 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In anticipation of the Republican and Democratic national conventions later this summer, Nathan Gelgud, one of the Daily’s new correspondents, will be posting a regular weekly comic about the writers, artists, and demonstrators who attended the contested 1968 DNC.  …” The Paris … Continue reading →

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WBCN and The American Revolution

Posted on November 11, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It’s been a decade since WBCN rode Boston’s airwaves. In mass media terms, that’s an eternity. Today, if you tune to its old spot on the FM dial, you’ll hear a ‘hot contemporary adult’ format, Mix 104.1, a world away … Continue reading →

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What Biden is keeping secret in the JFK files

Posted on October 26, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Part of a file from the CIA released by the National Archives in 2017, dated Oct. 10, 1963, details “a reliable and sensitive source in Mexico” report of Lee Harvey Oswald’s contact with the Soviet Union embassy in Mexico City. … Continue reading →

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Students for a Democratic Society

Posted on October 14, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. Disdaining permanent leaders, hierarchical relationships and parliamentary procedure, the founders … Continue reading →

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JACOBIN No.29 / Spring 2018: 1968

Posted on October 1, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Between us we can change this rotten society. Now, put on your coat and make for the nearest cinema. Look at their deadly love-making on the screen. Isn’t it better in real life? Make up your mind to learn to … Continue reading →

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