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Tom Brokaw did a show on 1968. I was 10 at the time but I had older brothers and sisters and lived it through them. I think when we look at our time, especially me as a parent decrying the influences on my kids I think I can understand at 50 now how my parents must have felt And our country as divides as it seems now was also divided then. Maybe we need these shake up times every now and them to move our country forward. I think some would say that the baby boomers and their culture are the problem today but there was also a lot about my parents' culture that needed to change. Now it is time for our kids to shake things up I guess. Very cool show and loved seeing Bruce Springsteen through the whole thing.

Val

i heard about this yesterday on Sirius-- said that James Taylor was interviewed as well. dang it. missed it.

tikiwoman wrote:Tom Brokaw did a show on 1968. I was 10 at the time ... And our country as divides as it seems now was also divided then.

I meant to watch the show but I forgot it was on. Cable TV being what it is, I'm sure it will be rerun a few times.

I think the division in the country was worse in 1968 than it is now. A lot worse.

freaky4tiki wrote:i heard about this yesterday on Sirius-- said that James Taylor was interviewed as well. dang it. missed it.

Yes he was. Both men looked and sounded pretty good.

Val

LIPH wrote:

tikiwoman wrote:Tom Brokaw did a show on 1968. I was 10 at the time ... And our country as divides as it seems now was also divided then.

I meant to watch the show but I forgot it was on. Cable TV being what it is, I'm sure it will be rerun a few times.

I think the division in the country was worse in 1968 than it is now. A lot worse.

I was only little then but I think your are right. I don't think we have nearly the unrest that we had then. I think sometimes we have to remember history and revisit it to understand that maybe the times we live in aren't so bad. Every time has its challenges.

Val

tikiwoman wrote:

freaky4tiki wrote:i heard about this yesterday on Sirius-- said that James Taylor was interviewed as well. dang it. missed it.

Yes he was. Both men looked and sounded pretty good.

Val

I used to see Tom Brokaw every now and then when he was still doing the NBC Nightly News, the building where I work is NBC's headquarters. They must have great makeup people, up close he looks like a worn out old man.

LIPH wrote:

tikiwoman wrote:Tom Brokaw did a show on 1968. I was 10 at the time ... And our country as divides as it seems now was also divided then.

I meant to watch the show but I forgot it was on. Cable TV being what it is, I'm sure it will be rerun a few times.

I think the division in the country was worse in 1968 than it is now. A lot worse.

Really? I don't know, just asking . . . but I feel that the biggest problem the United States currently faces is widening gap between the rich and the poor (or even the rich and the middle class income areas).

And the gap is becoming greater more rapidly every year.

LIPH wrote:

tikiwoman wrote:

freaky4tiki wrote:i heard about this yesterday on Sirius-- said that James Taylor was interviewed as well. dang it. missed it.

Yes he was. Both men looked and sounded pretty good.

Val

I used to see Tom Brokaw every now and then when he was still doing the NBC Nightly News, the building where I work is NBC's headquarters. They must have great makeup people, up close he looks like a worn out old man.

LOL- oh know, I meant Bruce Springteen and James Taylor. I agree about Tom, he looks well worn. Though there was footage of him as a young reporter in Haight Ashbury in the 60's and he looked like a baby then.

Val

drunkpirate66 wrote:

LIPH wrote:

tikiwoman wrote:Tom Brokaw did a show on 1968. I was 10 at the time ... And our country as divides as it seems now was also divided then.

I meant to watch the show but I forgot it was on. Cable TV being what it is, I'm sure it will be rerun a few times.

I think the division in the country was worse in 1968 than it is now. A lot worse.

Really? I don't know, just asking . . . but I feel that the biggest problem the United States currently faces is widening gap between the rich and the poor (or even the rich and the middle class income areas).

And the gap is becoming greater more rapidly every year.

I didn't mean the gap between the rich and poor, I meant just in general things were worse. We don't have riots in the streets like we did in 1968. And nobody's been assassinated, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were in 1968.

Interesting show. Seemed a little incoherent at times but very good footage.

drunkpirate66 wrote:

LIPH wrote:

tikiwoman wrote:Tom Brokaw did a show on 1968. I was 10 at the time ... And our country as divides as it seems now was also divided then.

I meant to watch the show but I forgot it was on. Cable TV being what it is, I'm sure it will be rerun a few times.

I think the division in the country was worse in 1968 than it is now. A lot worse.

Really? I don't know, just asking . . . but I feel that the biggest problem the United States currently faces is widening gap between the rich and the poor (or even the rich and the middle class income areas).

And the gap is becoming greater more rapidly every year.

Things are much better now than ever before. Even the class warfare argument doesn't hold much water. The widening gap is due more to warped priorities than lack of money.

Missed the first half-hour, saw the rest. Very entertaining, it's hard to imagine how this country would have changed had MLK Jr. and Bobby Kennedy been alive. I was only 7, not into music, but listening to the songs of the era was great. So many top 40 songs were dealing with the issues of the day in an obvious way....unlike today, when it creates a stir when a singer backs a politician or cause. "I'm not buying that cd, he/she likes the other candidate!"

I want music in my music

I guess it depends on how you define 'better' and 'worse' if you are going to make comparisons between now and 1968.

Back then, opposing communism was our national obsession and we were given that rationale for being mired in Vietnam.

Now, opposing radical Islam is our national obsession and that is the latest rationale we are given for being mired in Iraq (I think the first one was WMDs), Afghanistan and maybe Iran soon (also a WMD rationale apparently).

Progress has been made in the areas of civil rights for African Americans, gay and ------- rights, womens' freedom to choose their own destiny (as opposed to having it predetermined by their 'biology'), but it is the tenor of our times that these movements are now dismissed as 'special interest groups', and some are hoping to elect a president to turn back the clock on some of these things.

Environmental issues were front and center in 1968, if you were paying attention. Global warming has been a concern of climate scientists for almost all of the last four decades since 1968. The build-up of industrial pollutants in our environment and water resource shortages (Atlanta?) resulting from haphazard development and bad farming practices were problems anticipated by some in 1968 but their voices were drowned out by naysayers and vested interests.

I think about the only thing that has changed significantly since 1968 (apart from the year on the calendar and people having more electronic toys - cell phones, computers, big TVs - to distract them) is that I'm much more discouraged about the prospects for the future than I was back then.

As an example of how difficult it is to see progress on some issues, apparently the word 'lesb!an' is too controversial to make it onto the BN forum (see above post).

flyboy55 wrote:As an example of how difficult it is to see progress on some issues, apparently the word 'lesb!an' is too controversial to make it onto the BN forum (see above post).

there have been spam issues and some words were blocked
in the hope of stopping the spammers.. nothing to do with our
beliefs, likes or dislikes..

I didn't see the TV show, but I was there for the original, live version of 1968. It was the year I graduated from university and got married. It was one of the great years!

Taped the show, but haven't watched it yet. Also reading Brokaw's book.

Remember much of '68 vividly-amazing times!

I got to see him and take a photo of him last week on the Today Show.



It was fun to get to see him.

i hope i catch it when they rerun it!

me, too!
I was a NASA-obsessed 6 yr.old in '68 who could not think of anything else but
Apollo rockets going to the moon, and Willie Mays playing baseball.
then, one evening my Mom was sobbing and I had never seen her cry.
My parents told me that Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated that night in L.A.
From that day on, I took a real interest in American politics...

I know, I know.... I was a weird kid

I bought the Boom book for my best friend for Christmas but need to pick one up for myself. I may just pick one up as a present to myself this week.

Val