1960 June 13 Newsweek: apathy of students - get this
June Baez & Seeger sing at Newport Folk Festival, which
is ended with a hootenanny
summer? Holiday magazine: Kerouac
summer Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village starts
holding Monday night hootenannys
summer Univ of Michigan Daily editor Tom Hayden, having read
On the Road, hitchhikes to California & meets
SLATE members in Berkeley
summer Trailways & several southern department store chains
desegregate their lunch counters
mid- Sidney Cohen's survey of 5,000 individuals who had taken
LSD 25,000 times concludes it is safe
Aug 9 Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms in Cuernavaca
fall back at U Mich, Hayden founds VOICE
fall Leary returns to Harvard, secures a supply of psilocybin from
Sandoz, & starts the Harvard Project;
also makes contact with Huxley and his group:
Gerald Heard (Huxley's friend from England's
Bloomsbury group), Humphrey Osmond (English
psychiatrist in Canada), Al Hubbard
Oct 12 Khruschev bangs shoe on desk at the U.N.
Oct 19 MLK & 35 students choose jail after arrest for sit-in
requesting service at the snack bar of Atlanta's
Rich's department store
Oct 25 MLK, held over on old traffic ticket charges, is
denied bail & sentenced to four months hard labor
Oct 26 JFK calls Coretta King & RFK call helps MLK's release
(& JFK p.r.)
Nov Ike tries to cut US foreign military spending causing gold
drain, warns against power of the "military-industrial complex
"
Nov US sends troops to Nicaragua & Guatemala
Nov JFKennedy defeats Nixon
with 40% margin among Negro voters in key states,
who shifted from 40 to 70% Democratic since the 1956 election
Dec Boynton vs. Virginia: Supreme Court prohibits segregation in
waiting rooms & restaurants serving interstate bus passengers
Dec 20 Look: The Explosive Generation - ed. George Leonard - get thi
s
Dec Birth control pills go on sale in the US
[when were I.U.D.s?? - around 1962 also]
when? Charles Van Doren is among 13 contestants on television show
"21" arrested for perjury in testifying that answers to
questions were not given them in advance
when? The Place & The Co-Existence Bagel Shop close
(Grant Ave in San Francisco's North Beach)
Beatles first trip to Hamburg, Germany
8 musicians meet in Ireland to form the Ceoltoiri
Chualann; 5 of them later form the Chieftains
Congress investigates payola, Teamsters Union
Nineteen new nations emerge in Africa
France: Manifesto of the 121 calls on draftees to
refuse to fight in the Algerian War, cosigners include
Simone de Beauvoir & Jean Paul Sartre
Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress Mai Britt
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,
Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Green Fields
*Everly Bros: Cathy's Clown
Drifters: Save the Last Dance for Me
Hank Ballard: Finger Poppin' Time
& original version of The Twist
Chubby Checker, 19, records The Twist
Joan Baez first album
television sets: US 85 mill; Brit 10.5 mill; WGer 2 mill; Fr 1
.5 mill
TV: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, My Three Sons
Jean Paul Belmondo first movie, Breathless
(by Godard) becomes U.S. hit
Hiroshima Mon Amour [recheck - have this earlier]
Never on Sunday
Exodus
Big Deal on Madonna Street
(Psycho: Hitchcock)
Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais
Paul Goodman: Growing Up Absurd
Black Like Me: John Howard Griffin
John Updike: Rabbit, Run
Allen Watts: Beat Zen, Square Zen, & Zen
Kerouac: Visions of Cody, The Scripture of Golden Eternity
Ginsberg: Kaddish
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
John Barth: The Sotweed Factor
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing - A.S. Neill
1961 when? HUAC film: Operation Abolition depicting SLATE activities
in Berkeley draws activists to Berkeley
(Bomb shelters being built)
61 when? South Africa: African National Congress (ANC) banned (check)
(see note Apr 60 about 11 African countries independence
Apr 60 - Apr 61)
Jan Bob Dylan, 19, shows up in Greenwich Village's The Wha?,
and visits Woody Guthrie in the hospital
Jan Atlanta civil rights demonstrations
(Life: JFKennedy calls attention to Bomb Shelters)
Feb 1 (First anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in):
demos all across the south, including
Nashville movie theater desegregation campaign
(which sparks similar demos in 10 other cities);
nine students arrested at lunch counter in Rock Hill, S. Car.
choose to take 30 days hard labor on a road gang;
the next week, four other students repeat the sit-in,
also choose jail.
when? (between Jan & May): Univ of Georgia: riots against
admission of first two Negro students
61 Feb 18 Bertrand Russell, 89, & Committee of 100 lead march of 20,000
& sit-down of 5,000 anti-nuke outside U.K.
Defense Ministry and is jailed for 7 days
Mar (early) Richard Alpert takes psilocybin as part of the
Harvard Project
Mar JFKennedy initiates 17 billion dollar nuclear missile program,
increases military aid to Indochina (=So Vietnam)
& announces creation of the Peace Corps
Apr 11 Dylan does first billed performance at Gerde's Folk City
Apr 12 USSR: first man in space (Yuri Gagarin)
61 Apr 25 Bay of Pigs: 1400 Cubans trained in the U.S. attempt
to invade Cuba & are defeated by forces led by Castro
May JFKennedy calls for 12,000 new Marines, the training of new
anti-guerilla units ("Special Forces"/"Green Berets")
and tripling of funds for fallout shelters & other
civil defense programs
May 4 James Farmer & CORE leads Freedom Rides (biracial
groups ride interstate buses & use station facilities
to challenge non-?observance of 1957 & 1960 civil
rights legislation
May 14 first Freedom bus attacked & burned outside Anniston,
Alabama & riders beaten
(Dylan writes Ballad of Emmett Till)
May 16 SNCC students replace CORE riders
May 21 Mobs attack First Baptist Church, Montgomery
May 25 First Amer in space: Alan Shepard (blast off May 5)
May 25 Montgomery, Ala: violence breaks out Negro and white
May 28 Amnesty International founded (by English lawyer Peter
Benenson & friends) with notice in the London
Observer and the Paris Le Monde
June JFKennedy first summit with USSR's Nikita Khrushchev
"diplomatic setback": K threatens to take over West Berlin
June Nearly 200 more arrested & jailed (Montgomery, Alabama??)
July 21 Second American in space: Grissom
61 Aug 7 Bob Moses (& SNCC) begins first voter registration school in
Mississippi (McComb, Fayette County)
Aug 13 East German border guards begin construction of Berlin Wall
Aug 29 Bob Moses beaten while trying to register two voters in Libert
y
Sept Dylan plays Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village,
gets first review (Times)
Sept 17 U.K.: March & sit-down, Parliament Sq
large numbers & many arrests (while Russell in jail)
Sept 24 Herbert Lee, 52, local Negro leader & freedom school attendee,
Fayette City, shot by State Rep. Hurst (check)
Oct 4 Mass arrest of 3 SNCC members & 110 Negro high school students
praying on McComb City Hall steps in protest of Lee's slaying
&
suspension of two Freedom Riders - ends SNCC voter registratio
n project
Oct The Twist is still the rage and Chubby Checker leaves for Euro
pean tour
(Oct 11 Hayden & Paul Potter beaten on visit to voter registration act
ivities)
Oct SLATE leads vigil against resumption of nuclear testing by US
&
USSR; 50,000 women around US demonstrate against the resumptio
n
Nov. 1 -> Women Strike for Peace
Nov 1 Tennessee: state auctioneers selling off Highland (?Folk Cente
r)
Nov 1 Pushed through by the Kennedys, ICC rules against interstate
segregation go into effect - demos throughout the south
Nov 9 Brian Epstein first sees the Beatles at The Cavern, Liverpool
Dec 9 U.K.: Committee of 100 (w Russell) demos at various
U.S. air & nuc bases
D 10-15 SNCC Freedom Rider test of ICC ruling in Albany, Georgia
leads to five days of arrests of 469/500 students for
marching around city hall. Some 350 choose to stay in
jail as part of the Albany movement.
Dec 11 First two U.S. Army helicopter units land in South Vietnam
Dec 16 MLK arrested Albany, Georgia with some 250 more demonstrators
D 23-30 Sat Eve Post: "Youth - The Good Generation"
(in response to Look?
1961 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
The Twist -> #1 record for the second time
(-> Watusi, Hully-Gully, Stop & Swim, Mashed Potato +)
Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Moon River, Big Bad John,
Hit the Road Jack, Little Sister, Barbara Ann, Runaround Sue,
Where the Boys Are
Ricky Nelson: Travelin Man
The Dovells: Bristol Stomp
Chris Kenner: I Like It Like That
Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger
Ramblin' Jack Elliot starts
Judy Collins first album
Breakfast At Tiffany's, West Side Story [rechck-have as earlie
r]
Truffaut: Jules et Jim
Kurosawa: Yojimbo
Godard: A Woman Is a Woman (his 3rd feature) - also w Belmondo
Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc: Pull My Daisy
Salinger's Franny and Zooey published as a book
Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name
Eric Berne: Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Carl Rogers: On Becoming A Person
Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
John Lilly: Man and Dolphin
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Miller's Tropic of Cancer finally legally published in US
Harvard ?Student Union's first edition of Let's Go!
Alan Watts speaking on campuses around US
1962 "the East Village, with blacks, comes into being ard Tompkins
Sq
western border: Cooper Square" - Hettie Jones
when? Vanessa Redgrave (among others) speaks at Bertrand
Russell's Committee of 100 anti-nuclear
weapons demonstration at Air Ministry in London
when? Cesar Chavez starts NFWA in Delano with his own savings
for 300,000 migratory farmworkers
when? Gideon case: all people accused of serious crimes
have a right to be represented by counsel
when? Amelia Newell opens her land at Gorda Mountain, Big Sur
for the first open-land commune (at its peak in 1967,
200 people lived there; ended 1968)
when? Herman Hesse dies, nearly unknown to U.S. readers
Feb 7 First U.S. Army support companies arrive in Saigon
F 16-17 Boston SANE & fledgling SDS hold first anti-nuclear
march on Washington; 4000-8000 show up
Feb 20 First Amer to orbit earth: John Glenn
F? M? Baker v. Carr: one man/one vote
(Mar? Harvard Psilocybin Project challenged)
(meanwhile Leary has discovered LSD)
Mar Bob Dylan: first album
Mar? (14 months after JFK in office) military budget up 9 billion
Mar Strategic Hamlet program started in Vietnam
Apr (Dylan writes Blowin in the Wind)
Apr 27 LA Negro uprising (according to Eyes on The Prize)
Griffith Park - 200 youths vs police arresting one
for horseplay on a merry-go-round
1962 Jn12-
16 Port
Huron Statement (SDS) (summer: first doubts about
LSD research start to surface) (35 Harvards meet at
Hotel Catalina in Zihuatanejo) summer Neal Cassady visits
Ken Kesey at Perry Lane, having read One Flew Over
the Cuckoos Nest summer Jamaica, Trinidad, & Tobaga become
independent July 10 Martin Luther King & Abernathy choose
to go to jail for their part in Dec. Albany demos.
July 12 Unidentified Negro man (secretly sent by JFK) pays
MLK's fine July 19 First tv picture crosses Atlantic ocean
by Telstar satellite July 27 Martin Luther King back in
jail (to Aug 10) Aug Ban the Bomb demos UN, London,
Helsinki, Tokyo, Hiroshima Women's Strike for Peace
(End the Arms Race, Not the Human Race) Aug 4 Sat eve:
Marilyn Monroe dies at 36 (? of drug o.d.??) fall Leary
founds International Foundation for Internal Freedom
(IFIF) to promote LSD research & publish The
Psychedelic Review; IFIF rents two houses in Newton
as "Freedom House"s Sept SNCC voter registration drive
leaders in Georgia sniped at & churches burned &
Mississippi (Ruleville) Sept 30 -Oct 1 JFK calls out troops
to allow James Meredith to become the first Negro
admitted to U Miss (Dylan writes Oxford Town)
(troops stay until late summer 1963, after Meredith
has his degree) Oct 22 Vaughn Meader tapes The First Fami-
ly album 1962 O 22-
28 JFK's
Cuban Missile Blockade (after 10 months of CIA's
Operation Mongoose) WORLD COMES CLOSEST EVER TO NU-
CLEAR WAR (Dylan writes A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall)
when?
US-
USSR sign Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (bans atmospheric
tests) & Nuclear non-proliferation pact (after Oct
62) Nov Nixon loses for governor for California (to in-
cumbent Pat Brown) Nov first (Berkeley) sit-in against
racial discrimination at Mel's Drive-in, San Fran-
cisco & demos around the country and the south
Dec Mariner 2 sends photos of Venus
1962
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING Let Me In, Wah-Watusi, Mashed
Potato, He's a Rebel (Gene Pitney/Crystals),
Lonely Tear Drops, Girl From Ipanema
June 2: Isley Bros: Twist and Shout
Twisting the Night Away *Everly
Brothers: Crying in the Rain *Beach Boys: Surfin' &
Surfin' Safari Dick Dale: Surfer's Choice
Ian & Sylvia first record (from Canada)
Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds
TV: Beverly Hillbillies Fellini: Boc-
caccio ?70 Lolita Vaughn Meader doing
JFK improvisations
Abraham Maslow: Toward a Psychology of Being
Harrington: The Other America
Kerouac: Big Sur Rachael Carson:
Silent Spring Miller: Tropic of Capricorn
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Aldous Huxley: Island (utopian community)
Alan Watts: The Joyous Cosmology
?Adelle Davis: Exploring Inner Space
Euell Gibbons: Stalking the Wild Asparagus
Esalen Institute founded Findhorn
Foundation (Scotland) founded 1963 Jan Albama
Gov. Wallace's "Segregation Forever" speech at inauguration
Feb 20 Greenwood, Miss: SNCC Voter Registration headquar-
ters & 4 Negro businesses burned Feb 28 Jim-
my Travis, 20, Bob Moses & Randolph Blackwell, re-
turning from V E Project meeting, shot at Mar shootings
& burnings in Greenwood & arrests & Republicans in-
troduce stronger civil rights legislation into
Congress East Su (when?) SANE, NYC "Peace Walk" Apr
3 Birmingham: sit-ins & demos begun by SCLC & volunteers
A 11 Birmingham, Alabama city officials (including Bull
Connor) obtain injunction against any demonstra-
tions A 12-20 Martin Luther King & Abernathy go to jail in
Birmingham for marching in defiance of the injunc-
tion May? Dylan tapes John Birch Society Blues for the
Ed Sullivan tv show (censored) May 2 Birmingham: 958
children go to jail for marching May 3 Connor orders fire
houses & dogs turned on children marching out of
the 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham to keep
them from marching out of the "Negro section"
1963 May
6 (Mon)
Birmingham: 1000 children & adults arrested, making
a total of about 2500 (Ella Baker, Dave Dellinger,
James Forman, Dick Gregory, Guy & Candie Carawan,
Joan Baez in Birmingham) [when? JFK "ordered Ala-
bama National Guard placed under Federal control,
used display of military force to impose deseg"] May
7 thousands of Negro children enter downtown "white" Birming-
ham May 8 Buddhist uprisings against Diem start in Hue
May 9? meetings between white & Negro leaders negotiate an
end to much of Birmingham segregation May
11 (Sat) KKK rally just outside of Birmingham and
bombing of A.D. King's home & Gaston Motel,
followed by riot around the motel area May
16 sit-ins & marches throughout the south next
10 weeks:
758 demonstrations in 186 cities, 14,733 arrests in
11 southern states (throughout June & July)
May Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (with Blowin in the Wind)
Joan Baez and Bob Dylan sing at Monterey Folk
Festival, and Baez starts introducing Dylan at her
concerts when? Cooper makes 22 orbits May
28 Medgar Evers gets agreement of negotiations in Jackson
which is then withdrawn; 4 students & professor
harassed during sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter
May 31 600 children arrested for marching [Jackson?? or
Birmingham?] June 1 First Buddhist monk, Quang Duc (73)
immolates self in Vietnam (June) Leary quits Harvard; Al-
pert fired
1963 June
Dylan's
Blowin in the Wind in the top 10 June ?1 Saturday Review:
They Split My Personality (negative on LSD) - get?
June demonstrations & arrests - Tallahasee, North Caro-
lina June 5 First Negro student enters University of Mis-
sissippi law school (without incident) June
9 Arinell Ponder of SCLC & 5 students arrested & beaten
for using white Trailways bathrooms, Winona, Miss.
June 11 Cambridge, Md: 25 arrested outside courthouse;
firehoses in Danville, Va send 48 of 65 demos to
hospital June 11 Gov. George Wallace, trying to fulfill
campaign promise to "stand in the schoolhouse door"
to halt integration, is confronted by Alabama Na-
tional Guard, placed under Federal control by
JFKennedy, June 11 two Negro students quietly registered at
University of Alabama June 11 JFKennedy tv speech promises
Civil Rights bill, Southern Democrats vow to block
June 12 Medgar Evers (NAACP Field Sec) shot dead, Jackson,
Miss on arrival at his home (Dylan
writes Only a Pawn in their Game) June 12 Buddhist monk
Trich Quan Duc publicly immolates himself, Saigon
summer Leary hosts Freedom House groups in Zihuatanejo,
Mexico & is forced to move on to Dominica & then
Antigua (ck Time mag) Jul (end) Newport Folk Festival:
37,000 attend, debut for many new folk musicians,
including Dylan (Ag 3-4 picketers in Torrance, Calif and
other places) 1963 Aug
28 MLK's
I Have a Dream speech, Wash DC Civil Rights March
200,000 / 300,000 - 500,000 / 210,000 - 250,000+
(Baez, Odetta, Josh White, SNCC Freedom Singers,
Peter, Paul & Mary, Dylan perform) Sept? negative pieces
on Leary/Alpert firing appear in Esquire, Saturday
Evening Post, Look (get?) mid-Sep Timothy Leary, Richard
Alpert, and other Harvard alumni LSD-researchers
move to the Hitchcock's estate in Millbrook, New
York (+ The Psychedelic Exp going to printer) fall Time
mag on IFIF - get? Sept Birmingham fights over school
integration Sept 10 20 Negro children integrated into Birm-
ingham schools Sept 13 Wallace announces candidacy for
president 63 Sept 15 16th St. Baptist church in Birmingham
bombed, killing four young Negro female Sunday
School students (Addie Mae Collins 14, Denise
McNair 11, Carol Robertson 14, Cynthia Wesley 11)
Oct JFK signs first Atomic Test Ban Treaty
(banned atmospheric tests? in space & beneath the
sea) & first wheat sale to USSR Oct 13 Bea-
tles at London Palladium shown on tv; media discov-
ers Beatlemania Nov 1 Vietnam: Military junta overthrows
and assassinates Diem Nov early: "Freedom Vote" 90,000
Mississippi Negroes "vote" (in parallel election
organized by SNCC) for the first time Nov Playboy: Al-
len Harrington's account of LSD session & Huxley's
last piece on the psychedelic dream - get? Nov Leary's
IFIF mutated into Castalia end JFK plans
withdrawal/withdraws 1000 of 17,000 advisors in
Vietnam, quietly opens a dialogue with Castro's
Cuba, and pursues detente with the USSR (Hayden)
Nov 22 JFKennedy assassinated, LBJohnson sworn in;
also Aldous Huxley dies, on LSD
Nov 16,000 troops in Vietnam Nov 24 LBJ signs
national security memorandum stating US goal in
Vietnam is helping the Saigon government to a mili-
tary "victory" when? Nov? Oswald assassinated
1963
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING Hello Muddah, The Singing Nun
Guantanamara, If I Had a Hammer, Puff
the Magic Dragon, ?Charlie off the MTA? There But
For Fortune - Phil Ochs Chad Mitchell Trio (with
John Denver) Beach Boys: Surfin' USA & Surfer Girl
(with Little Deuce Coupe) Jan & Dean: Surf City
Ventures: Surfing Chris Kenner: Land
of 1000 Dances LIVERPOOL! Beatles:
first album Tom Paxton: The Last Thing on My Mind
(?album) Dave Van Ronk starts Judy
Henske records three albums Buffy Sainte-Marie:
It's My Way (1st album) w Universal Soldier
*Freewheelin' Bob Dylan w Blowin in the Wind
Bo Diddley first album Otis Redding
first album Little Stevie Wonder
(Bunny Wailer, Marley, Tosh start playing together)
Fellini: Eight and a Half (Great Es-
cape) Dr. Strangelove, directed by Kubrick
Mary MacCarthy: The Group Book of the
Hopi - Frank Waters Betty Friedan: The Feminine
Mystique James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
John Cage: A Year From Monday Vonne-
gut: Cat's Cradle (ice 9) Leary +: The Psychedelic
Experience (version of the Tibetan Book of the
Dead/Bardo Thodol)
height of the Mods and Rockers in UK (according to
Quadrophenia)
1964 when?
Indian
fishermen fish-ins, Nisqually River, Washington when? Sup
Ct affirms members of Native Amer Church use of
peyote in religious ceremonies early Kesey moves to La
Honda, Merry Pranksters form
Jan LBJ state-of-the-union: declares war on poverty
while cutting budget and uranium production
when? Economic Opportunity Act: War on Poverty
(creates community action agencies) Jan
11 Surgeon General's cigarette warning Jan Bob
Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin' Beatles: *I
Want to Hold Your Hand -> #1 US Jan 23 24th Amendment el-
iminates polling taxes Jan 30 New military junta takes
over in South Vietnam Feb 9 Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Feb 11 Beatles: Washington D.C. Feb (Dylan
visits southern US & writes Chimes of Freedom)
(Dylan & Baez at Berkeley Community Theater)
Feb 25 Muhammed? Ali (Cassius Clay) beats Sonny Liston
Mar 6 protest against Sheraton Palace Hotel's
discrimination in hiring (SF) Bea-
tles: Can't Buy Me Love, And I Love Her and filming
A Hard Day's Night Mar After RFK investigation, Hoffa
indicted on jury-tampering charges in 1962 mistrial
for misuse of union pension funds
Mar Malcolm X, silenced by Elijah Muhammed's Muslims,
visits Africa Mar 21 Leary starts first week of solitary
LSD spring Newsweek on Millbrook - get?
64 Apr Kitty Genovese, age, coming home from a night job
in the early a.m., stabbed repeatedly and over an
extended period of time, while 38 residents of Kew
Gardens, a "respectable" New York neighborhood
heard and witnessed but did not even call police Apr
23 Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl Apr 24 Crosses burned
in 64 of Mississippi's 82 counties to prepare for
Freedom Summer May very first LA Free Press at first?
KPFK Renaissance Faire May Dylan's first visit to Eng-
land, meets Beatles, Rolling Stones, Eric Burden of
Animals (who is doing first "folk-rock" piece House
of Rising Sun); turns Beatles on to marijuana
1964
old-
est baby boomers reach 18, graduate high school
June Lenny Bruce goes on trial in NYC June
19 Carol Doda dances in a Rudi Gernreich topless bathing suit
in The Condor nightclub, North Beach June
19 200 college students leave Oxford, Ohio to join
1,000 total civil rights volunteers as part of
Civil Rights "Freedom Summer" to register Negro
voters June 21 Three civil rights activists
(James Chaney (21), Andrew Goodman (20), Michael
Schwerner (24)) killed on arrival in Mississippi by
KKK June 6 Negro churches burned in Mississippi (21 more
by September); 30 Negroes murdered January to Au-
gust June 22 Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, still being
smuggled into U.S. from Paris, finally ruled legal
for distribution in U.S. summer SDS ERAP: 125 members or-
ganizing the poor in the slums of nine cities
summer Millbrook House LSD sessions when?
Realist piece by Robert Anton Wilson - get?
summer Saturday night "happenings" in Spui Square start in
Amsterdam July 2 LBJ signs Civil Rights Act: public facil-
ities opened to all July Kesey & Merry Pranksters' first
Magic Bus trip (to NY) July 18 Negro uprising in Harlem
July 20 Brooklyn Negro uprising July 22 Rochester
Negro uprising July? Sun House first reappearance
(Newport Folk Festival) Aug 2-4 U.S. navy destroyers in the
Gulf of Tonkin air action against North Vietnamese
PT boats the torpedo boats & their bases. (???fix)
Also new military junta takes over. Aug 2-
4 New Jersey Negro uprising Aug 7 Congress passes Gulf
of Tonkin resolution (only Sen Ernest Gruening of
Alaska & Wayne Morse of Oregon dissent) (19 years
after bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki) & Seventh
fleet sent to Vietnam Aug 11-14 New Jersey Negro uprising
Aug 16-17 Chicago Negro uprising Aug 20 LBJ signs War
on Poverty Bill is this "The Great Society" pro-
gram? did this create VISTA? Head Start? Aug
x Democratic convention refuses to seat more than two
representatives from the Mississippi Freedom Demo-
cratic Party 64 Aug Ken Kesey & his Merry Pranksters
visit? Leary & Alpert at Millbrook
Aug Dylan: Another Side of Bob Dylan (all love songs)
Aug 23 Beatles Hollywood Bowl concert
Aug Beatles: *Hard Day's Night released in US A
28-30 Philadelphia Negro uprising Ag-Sept Beatles first
U.S. tour: 25 N. Am. cities fall Ralph Metzner, Harvard
alumni of Leary's group, goes to India, contacts &
studies with Lama Govinda (?The Way of the White
Clouds) fall oldest baby boomers enter college
Sept Selective Service calls up 27,500, more than in
any month since 1953 Sept Wilderness Act
becomes law (by 1988 adds 80 million acres to the
11 million acres currently in the wilderness system)
Sept early: Clark Kerr bans all politicking outside UC
Berk's main gate late: Kerr suspends
8 students for political activities Sept 27 Warren Commis-
sion Report on JFK assasination released; says
Oswald's was the only bullet Oct 1 UC Berkeley math grad
student Jack Weinberg is arrested for setting up
CORE information table in Sproul Plaza; police car
is surrounded by demonstrating students for 32 hours;
Free Speech Movement is formed Mario Savio;
Baez Weinberg: "Don't trust anyone over thirty."
when? Berkeley Barb starts Oct 14 Khrushchev
deposed in U.S.S.R. -> Brezhnev Oct 16 China tests first
atomic bomb, becoming fifth nuclear power Oct 26 Rolling
Stones on Ed Sullivan Nov Johnson defeats Goldwater
Dec 2 Joan Baez sings on Sproul Hall steps Dec 2-
3 FSM overnight sit-in in Sproul Hall to protest discipline of
four who took part in the October police car sit-
in; 800 arrests Dec 4 900 students boycot classes Dec
7 U.C. Berk administration presentation at the Greek Theatre
to 18,000; followed by strike by 9,000 of the
27,000 students & faculty resolution (824 to 115)
supporting FSM Dec 10 MLK awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Dec 11 Singer Sam Cooke dies of gunshot wounds, Los
Angeles
In 1964, California surpassed New York as most po-
pulous state
1964
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING Walk On Boy, We'll Sing in
the Sunshine, Baby Love, King of the Road, A Spoon-
ful of Sugar Jan & Dean: Ride the Wild Surf & Lit-
tle Old Lady from Pasadena *from UK: Pacemakers,
Herman's Hermits, Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde,
Petula Clark (first hit: Downtown),
The Kinks, Manfred Mann, The Hollies,
Dave Clark Five: I Like It Like That)
*The Rolling Stones first record & 12 x 5?
Fred Neil first album Phil Ochs first
album (w There But For Fortune?? see lista63))
*Dylan: The Times They are a Changin'
*Another Side of Bob Dylan
TV: Gomer Pyle, Gilligan's Island, U.N.C.L.E.
Zorba the Greek the movie (when was the book?)
Woman of the Dunes It's A Mad Mad Mad
Mad World (people are basically mad, so there's no
hope for the world) La Jette: Chris Marker (Fr)
Herbert Marcuse: One Dimensional Man
Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media
Carl Jung: Man and His Symbols I Nev-
er Promised You a Rose Garden: Hannah Green David
Halberstam: The Making of a Quagmire
op art Rudi Gernreich: topless bath-
ing suit textured stockings
1965
Adri-
an Cronauer broadcasting in Vietnam First DC-9 air-
craft built Volkswagen starts American sales cam-
paign "Think Small" Peace Corps returnees having
trouble with "re-entry" when? Leary visits in India, re-
turns late spring to find Millbrook in poor state,
Alpert asked to leave Washington judge rules
Puyallup tribe does not exist, and cannot fish on
the Puyallup River
Jan Time Mag says "generation of conformists" Jan
4 FSM holds first legal rally on Sproul Plaza
?Feb Byrds release single of Mr. Tambourine Man
Feb Police raid Owsley's house in Berkeley Feb
8 U.S. starts bombing North Vietnam & begins using jet
bombers inside South Vietnam for strikes against
"VC" targets (`Operation Rolling Thunder')
Feb MLK & 770 others arrested in Selma, Alabama for
picketing county courthouse to end discrim voting
rights Feb 21 Malcolm X shot and killed, Harlem auditorium
Mar 6 "First Amer soldier officially sets foot on Viet
battlefields" Mar 8-9 3,500 Marines land to protect Da Nang
air base Mar Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home (all
rock) with Mr. Tambourine Man 65 Bea-
tles: Eight Days a Week hit Mar 3 Owsley starts making
LSD: large quantities of acid available for the
first time Mar 7 Selma, Alabama: police violence against
march Mar 8 Sup Ct rules co s need not believe in ex-
istence of a Supreme Being (Daniel Seeger case)
(and June 15 Elliott Welsh II case) Mar
9? first attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery
(turned back) Mar 16 Quaker Alice Herz, 82,
immolates self in Detroit in protest of the Vietnam
war Mar 16 Police break-up demonstration of 600 in
Montgomery, Alabama Mar 17 1,600 demonstrate at
Montgomery, Alabama courthouse Mar 18 Soviet cosmonauts
float in space M 21-25 MLK: Alabama march (Selma to
Montgomery capital 25,000) Mar 24 ?SDS organizes first
Viet War teach-in: University of Michigan (all
night) 500 expected, 3000 come Mar 28 MLK on tv calls for
boycott of Alabama Dylan to England (tour filmed
for Don't Look Back) Mar Sen. Frank Church & Geo McGo-
vern come out against the war Apr 2 Kesey busted for
marijuana first time Apr 5 Alpert & Metzner at Vanguard
Theater, Greenwich Village Apr 17 SDS leads first an-
tiVietwar march in Washington: 25,000 `March on
Washington to End the War in Vietnam' I.F. Stone &
Sen. Ernest Gruening of Alaska speak Phil Ochs,
Judy Collins, Baez / 20,000 (Bd & Pup) April 25,000
American troops in Vietnam (note: number of march-
ers almost equal to number of troops) May 3 Drop City
commune founded, ?in New Mexico? on Interstate Hwy
125 into Colorado May 6 First two Marine divisions arrive
Vietnam 65 May Beatles: A Ticket to Ride hit
May Berkeley: Vietnam Day & teach-ins at many other
colleges May 17 National Teach-in broadcast over radio
from Wash. D.C. May L.A. Free Press starts regu-
lar publication (the Mime Troupe)
Spring Albin House concerts May 26 Riverside County
salmonella crisis causes new look at water supplies
in the US
1965 June
Red
Dog Saloon, Charlatans at Virginia City First
psychedlic light shows by Bill Ham First "Happen-
ing": Wholly Communion, with Ginsberg, Ferlinghet-
ti, Corso & English poets, Royal Albert Hall, Lon-
don (June 11): Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone single
released (and meets The Band) June 11 Queen
awards Beatles the MBE June 12 Ky heads new military regime
in South Vietnam (more on Ky) Summer Baez/Sandperl Insti-
tute for the Study of Nonviolence (Carmel): first
students Summer Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man hit
Summer (Sept 8?) National Farm Workers Association joins
Delano grape walkout by 800 AFL-CIO pickers;
within a week, 2000 pickers (led by Chavez)
strike in two counties (33 growers, one quarter of
the table grape industry) (by 65: 1700 member fami-
lies) July First Provo manifesto appears in Amsterdam
July 25 Dylan goes rock and gets booed at Newport Folk Fest
(backed up by Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
(and wearing London mod) July Natl Coord
Committee to End the War in Vietnam formed summer attempts
to stop troop trains in Berkeley & Emeryville summer SDS
starts ERAP in West Oakland 65 Aug Help! released
Aug Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited Aug Eve of
Destruction released, goes to top of charts within
5 weeks (fastest rising song in rock history)
("you're old enough to kill, but not for votin'")
Aug Joan Baez's first hit: There But For Fortune
Aug Kesey meets Hunter Thompson who introduces the
Hells Angels to the Merry Pranksters; Ginsberg &
Alpert are at the party Aug 6 LBJ signs Voting Rights Act
65 A 11-16 Watts uprising Aug 13 Marty Balin opens Ma-
trix: Jefferson Airplane Beatles at Shea Stadium:
55,000 screaming girls + Merry Prankster party at
La Honda: Owsley meets Kesey Aug 26 Last day getting mar-
ried could improve your draft status Aug 29 Beatles Holly-
wood Bowl Aug 31 LBJ signs law amending Selective Service
Act to make draft card burning a federal offense
65 fall start of mini-skirts in stores?
fall Ballad of Green Berets tops charts Sept
2 Beatles Cow Palace Sept 5 SFEx writer Michael Fallon
applies the term "hippie" to the SF counterculture
in an article about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse
where LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) & the Sexual Free-
dom League meet, & hippie houses de-
clares the Beat movement is alive in the Haight
fall Millbrook house breaks up fall Brigette
Bardot in Time and Life 65 Oct. 15 U.C. Berkeley Teach-in &
march (Tele Ave) 14,000 Norman Thomas spoke??
Oct. 16 repeat march in Berkeley, to Oakland Army Base
[15,000 - Bohemia book] (Vietnam Day
Committee) & conflicts w police & Hell's Angels
Catholic Worker David Miller burns draft card
Oct. 16 Viet protests (teach-ins, marches) in 80 cities
including Fifth Ave, NY 15-20,000; Ann Arbor;
Madison; Boston; Detroit; Phil; Tokyo; London; Rome
+) 100,000 people in nearly 1,000 cities (Hayden)
Natl Coord Com to End the War in Viet Oct.
16 Family Dog's First Concert "A Tribute to Dr.
Strange" at Longshoreman's Hall (ILWU), Fisherman's
Wharf: Jefferson Airplane & Charlatans (with Dan
Hicks) Oct 18 First draft card burning arrest (under new
law): David Miller Che Guevara goes to Bolivia
Nov Unsafe at Any Speed published (Ralph Nader) Nov
1 J.Edgar Hoover: war demos in US "represented a minority for
the most part composed of halfway citizens who are
neither morally, mentally, nor emotionally mature"
1965 Nov
2 (elec-
tion day) Norman Morrison, 32 yr old Quaker, father of
three, immolates self below Secretary of Defense
McNamara's Pentagon window to protest Vietnam War
Nov 6 Bill Graham's first: benefit to raise money for
Mime Troupe, busted for performing in park without
a permit (Airplane, Fugs, Warlocks, Committee, Fer-
linghetti +++) Nov 9-10 Power Failure: NY & east coast
Nov 9 Roger Allen La Porte, Catholic Worker, immolates
self in front of UN Nov 22 Dylan marries
Sara Lowndes & moves to Woodstock Nov 27 `March on Wash-
ington for Peace in Vietnam' Wash, D.C. 15,000
(Life, Chron), 25,000 (Bd & Pupt), 30,000 (D.S.)
SANE + Natl Coordg Committee of left wing orgs.
Mar to Dec: Wm Frosch at Bellevue Psych Hosp, NY,
treats 65 acid freak-outs Dec Selective
Service calling up 40,200/month Dec 10 Bill Graham second
benefit for Mime Troupe, at Fillmore (first time
there) Fillmore & Geary - 3,500 Dec 15 Gemini 6 & 7 ren-
dezvous in space D 21-J6 Tom Hayden (26), Lynd, Aptheker to
Hanoi Dec 25 Leary stopped at the Mexican border & busted
for mj Dec 27 Old leadership of SDS unseated & women hold
a closed door workshop at the SDS convention
1965
Na-
tional Welfare Rights Organization founded 3 books
out on the New Left 1965 end: 184,000 American troops in
Vietnam
1965
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING My Girl, I Got You Babe, Hang
on Sloopy, Help Me Rhonda, Stop in the Name of
Love, Woolly Bully R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - Otis Redding
The Year of "Folk-Rock" Simon & Gar-
funkel: Sounds of Silence *Donovan: Catch The Wind
& Fairytale *Rolling Stones Now! & Out of Our Heads
w Satisfaction & December's Child
*Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home w Mr. Tambourine
Man & Hwy 61 Revisited w Like A Rolling Stone
*Beatles: We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper
Rubber Soul w Yesterday
*Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man & Turn!
Turn! Turn! when was Eight Miles High with sitar
*(Paul) Butterfield Blues Band *frm
UK: Animals (w Eric Burdon): We Gotta Get Out of
this Place *frm UK: Yardbirds (with Eric Clapton):
For Your Love *frm UK: Them (with Van Morrison)
Turtles Lovin Spoonful
The Fugs in the Village (rock musi-
cians with poets Ginsberg, Corso)
The Knack - And How to Get It Fel-
lini: Juliet of the Spirits Help!
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh (Forest Lawn)
John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor listed under
1960 also Malcolm X Autobiography (published
posthumously) (written by Alex Haley)
Manchild in the Promised Land - Claude Brown
Unsafe At Any Speed - Ralph Nader
Light on Yoga - B.K.S. Iyengar Dune -
Frank Herbert ?African Genesis
George Leonard of Look Mag & Michael Murphy, found-
er Esalen Institute, found Human Potential Movement
pop art
1966
400-
1000 U.S. draftees flee to Canada Peace Corps peak
?enrollment: 16,000 Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara announces "Project 100,000" to rehabili-
tate and draft "rejects" James Brown's first ap-
pearance before white audiences (at Madison Square
Garden, NYC) Swami Satchidananda founds Integral
Yoga Institute Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966 to
late 1968-69 N.O.W. (National Organization of Wom-
en) founded Freedom of Information Act
66 Model Cities Program passed by Congress (check)
Jan 3 Ron & Jay Thelin open head shop on Haight Street:
The Psychedelic Shop Jan 8 8,000 GIs attack
Iron Triangle, after B-52 bombing strikes Jan 14 march on
Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond, Negro pa-
cifist, from Georgia House of Representatives,
after his endorsement of SNCC statement criticial
of US involvement in Viet; MLK spoke Jan
17 A US B-52 bomber collides with a tanker aircraft during
mid-air refueling operation. Three 10-megaton H-
bombs drop onto Palomares, Spain below; a fourth
falls into the sea. Luckily, none of them explodes.
The entire event is ?covered up. (Rough Guide:
Spain p.173) Jan 20 Kesey busted again (with Mountain
Girl) J 21-23 Stewart Brand's Trips Fest, Longshoreman's
Hall, SF: first light show, Grateful Dead, 10,000
people Feb Kesey disappears (to Mexico) Feb
4 Bill Graham's first non-benefit show Feb 19 first
Chet Helms concert at Fillmore (Airplane & Big Brother)
Mar Time sez there's an acid epidemic get this?
March SFEx front page: bust of 25 "beatnicks" from 408
Ashbury 66 Mar 10 Provos in Amsterdam smoke "bomb" royal wed-
ding of Dutch Crown Princess to German Mar
11 Timothy Leary sentenced in Texas to 30 years for
trying to cross into Mexico as a tourist with a
small amount of marijuana; Leary appeals & gives
press interviews March President of GM apologizes to Sen-
ate subcommittee for investigating Nader's private
life + car safety protests 66 Watts
flares up again when? (early) all time DOW Jones high
(995.15); drop starts (to end of year) Mar
25? Life: Photos of firing squads in South Vietnam M 25-
27 March, Fifth Ave, NYC - 25,000 anti-Viet + 7
U.S. & 7 foreign cities Est Sun Love-in Elysian Park???
(Amelia sez) CHECK THIS Est Sun 25-day, 250 mile NFWA march
arrives Sacramento Volunteer picketing of groceries
starts Life: NFWA becoming first effective fmwkrs
union East Day after: youths riot at Glen Echo Amusement
Park, Wash D.C. Apr FBI treats the press to its LSD
file -> negative press on LSD Apr 7 Sandoz
stops supplying LSD to researchers 66 Apr Life: Is
USSR/China break starting? Vietnam: Buddhists pro-
test dismissal of Buddhist Lt. Gen Thi from the
government by South Vietnam Premier Ky 30 Missis-
sippi Negroes build tent city under LBJ's window to
protest housing conditions in Mississippi April Richard
Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
published, and Farina killed Brower & the Grand
Canyon dams [more!] Discotheques going: The Trip,
LA; The Cheetah, Broadway NY; Arthur, NY; The
World, Garden City, NY; Le Bison, Chicago; The
Lightworks - multiscreen light shows by Andy Warhol
[ditto Look Nov 30: 50+] Life: teen-age bands form-
ing everywhere with electric guitars and colorful
names Apr 12 NY Stock Exchange anti-war leafletting
Apr 14 75 demo outside NY Stock Exchange Ap
16 4,400 march NYC Ap 16 G. Gordon Liddy & FBI raid
Millbrook & bust Leary for possession of mj
April (end of) Helms to Avalon (Sutter & Van Ness)
May Dylan: Blonde on Blonde May Beatles: Pa-
perback Writer/Rain May 10 Vietnam: General Thi dismissed
from government by Ky; Buddhist revolt starts
May 15 10,000+ picket White House & rally at Wash Mon w
63,000 (SANE + 4 other organizations) M 20-
23 Buddhist & labor union demonstrations against Ky govt in
Saigon May 26 Second day of Internatl Days of Protest:
20,000 Fifth Ave, NYC called by "National Coordi-
nating Committee to End the War in Vietnam" May
29 Buddhist nun immolates self in Hue, the first of
eleven immolations in next three? weeks
June 15,000 hippies living in the Haight
June Provos elect first representative to Amsterdam Mun-
icipal Council J 1-2 White House Conf on Civil Rights
with Roy Wilkins of NAACP; Whitney Young Jr of Natl
Urban League; Floyd McKissick & James Farmer of
CORE; Martin Luther King Jr of SCLC; Stokely Carmi-
chael of SNCC ("We feel that integration is ir-
relevant. We have got to go after political
power."). June 3 Graduation protest at Amherst (McNamara
honorable degree) June 6 James Meredith shot while march-
ing alone thru Mississippi to encourage Negroes to
register to vote June 7 MLK (SCLC), Floyd McKissick
(CORE), Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) announce larger
march on same route June 8 Graduation protest at NYU
(McNamara honorable degree): 270 walk out June
9 NYTimes Sierra Club ad on Grand Canyon dams June
10 IRS tells Sierra Club it will lose its tax
deductible status if it keeps taking such political
stands June 12 Graduation protest at Brandeis (Goldberg
honorable degree) June 13 Sup Ct: Miranda case: suspects
entitled to be informed of their rights when
arrested (right to remain silent, be told anything
you say may be used against you, have a lawyer)
1966 J 13-
15 Confrontat
ion
between Amsterdam police & demonstrating construc-
tion workers with Provo supporters, Dam Square June
21 March ends at Mississippi capital in Jackson, with
15,000, with Meredith, recovered, there to speak
Summer Haight Ashbury: Shops opening, dances every week-
end, HIP merchants, Diggers Morning
Star Ranch, owned by Lou Gottlieb of the
Limelighters, along with Ramon Sender, open the
land (32 acres) to anyone who wants to live there
LA: Sunset Strip scene Velvet Under-
ground at The Trip June 24 Ky agrees to add ten civilians
to his military directorate & announces elections
for constitutional convention J 29-J5 US starts bombing ma-
jor oil facilities in Hanoi & Haiphong harbor
July (early) Beatles to Germany, Japan, Philippines
J 1-4 CORE adopts Black Power concepts, Baltimore J
3-5 Omaha Negro uprising J 4-9 NAACP rejects Black
Power concepts, LA J 12-15 Negro uprising in Chicago
July 13 Eight Chicago nurses killed by Richard Speck J
15-22 Negro, Puerto Rican uprising Brooklyn July 16 SF:
Negro off-duty policeman shooting of Negro armed
robbery suspect followed by Hunters Pt demonstrations July
18 Negro uprising Jacksonville, Fla J 18-23 Negro upris-
ing Cleveland July 24 McClure's "The Beard" busted at
Fillmore J 28-29 White gangs invade Baltimore Negro dis-
trict July 29 Dylan motorcycle accident ->15 mos convales-
ence Aug 1 U of Texas sniper kills 16 & wounds 31 from
observ. tower Aug 3 Lenny Bruce dead at 40 (Hollywood)
Aug 5 4,000 whites confront MLK marching with 600 in Chi-
cago Aug 6 (21st anniversary Hiroshima): anti-war demos:
5,000 Times Square NY + Phil, SF, Madison, Cleve-
land, Denver, Minneapolis, LA, Pittsburgh, Boston,
Atlanta, Niagara Falls Aug 9 (21st anniver-
sary Nagasaki): 200 demo Dow, NY Aug Gemini 10 shoots
pix of world surfaces HUAC hearings: Rubin in revo-
lutionary outfit (Gitlin p. 233) Emmett Grogan,
living near the Haight, joins Mime Troupe &, with
Billy Landout, starts the Diggers, putting out the
Digger Papers 66 Aug Jefferson Airplane first album
released nationally Aug Youngbloods: Lets Get Together
Aug Beatles: Revolver released Aug another
Beatles tour: Beatlemania again with Bible Belt
record burnings based on Lennon's remarks that
"most young people are more interested in rock `n'
roll than in religion . . . we're more popular
than Jesus now" 66 Aug 29 Beatles: Candlestick Park, SF -
last concert ever Inflation S 6-12 Negro
uprisings in Atlanta; Carmichael arrested for "in-
citing riot" alone with 105? others Sept 9 SF Oracle
starts Sept 11 First Elections in South Vietnam
Sept first Lunar Orbiter photo of Earth
Vietnam Air War going on Mobilization
to End the War in Vietnam formed George Harrison to
India for 6 weeks to study sitar with Ravi Shankar
Sept 15 Gemini 11 shoots pix of world surfaces Sept
19 Baez leads 160 Negro children to Mississippi elem school
Sept late: Leary holds press conf NY Advtg Club announc-
ing formation of a psychedelic religion - League
for Spiritual Discovery ("Turn on, tune in, drop
out") & starts nightly presentations at the Village
Theater Sept 25 LA Free Press headline: The lesser of two
evils is still an evil (explain) (?about Reagan?)
Oct 6 LSD illegal - first big free concert in GGPk
Panhandle (sev thous people at "Love Pageant Ral-
ly") & Diggers started free food in Panhandle (to
March 67) Oct DMZ Battle Oct Bobby Seale &
Huey P. Newton form Black Panthers of Oakland (met
as student leaders at Merritt College, dropped out,
& working as community organizers for the North
Oakland Poverty Program, write 10-point platform &
program. Stand-up comedian Seale becomes "Chair-
man", Newton "Minister of Defense", start patrol-
ling Oakland on weekend nights 66 Oct 19 Kesey,
back from Mexico, arrested Oct 25 UCLA Teach-in Oct
31 Ken Kesey's Acid Test Graduation Nov 5 Walk for
Love and Peace and Freedom: 10,000+ (NYC?)
Ginsberg, Snyder, Krassner, Fugs (Mobilization)
"first hippie style demo in NYC"
Nov? Housewives revolt against soaring food prices
LBJ trip to Cam Ranh Bay Nov 8 First Negro
elected to Senate (Massachusetts) Nov CAFF demonstra-
tions on Sunset Strip (over teen curfew) -> Byrds?:
Look What's Happening There Nov Reagan elected gov of
Calif (66-74) Lunar Orbiter II: photos of moon
Dec 6 Rally, Madison Sq Garden: SANE & 36 supporting or-
ganizations Floyd McKissick, I.F. Stone, Pete
Seeger 100s of balloons with peace doves released
from ceiling Dec 100 student leaders send letter to LBJ
(covered in NYT front page) warning that unless the
government changes its war policy, more & more of
its young men will choose jail rather than bare
arms Dec Cream's first album: Fresh Cream
(Eric Clapton from John Mayall, Jack
Bruce from Manfred Mann, and drummer Ginger Baker
from Graham Bond's Organization) Dec 17 Death & Rebirth of
the Haight-Ashbury (Hairy Henry + Fyllis bust)
1966 end: 385,000 American troops in Vietnam
1966
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING Alfie Green
Berets Jacques Brel at the peak of popularity in
France Suzanne - Leonard Cohen Dylan:
Blonde on Blonde Beatles: Yesterday and Today *Re-
volver *John meets Yoko *RS: After-
math & Got Live *Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn (or was
it 65?) & Fifth Dimension *Donovan: Sunshine
Superman *The Who Monkees
*Mamas & Papas: California Dreamin & Monday
Monday Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
*Simon & Garfunkel: Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.
*Sounds of Silence *Pars-
ley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme which
:Scarborough Fair *Hollies (from UK)
The Association Judy Collins: In My
Life
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
(Prod. Mike Nichols: "raw dialogue" & Liz Taylor)
Bergman: Persona Antonioni: Blow Up
King of Hearts first released Cul-
de-Sac directed by Roman Polanski Fahrehheit 451
directed by Truffaut Morgan! with Vanessa Redgrave
Tom Jones Raquel Welch
Alfie, A Man & A Woman Fantastic Voy-
age (movie) Georgy Girl with Lynn Redgrave
Alan Watts: The Book - On The Taboo Against Knowing
Who You Are Norman O. Brown: Love's Body
Masters & Johnson: Human Sexual Response
Intelligent Life in the Universe - I.S. Shklovskii
& Carl Sagan John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy (universi-
ty organized as military) Eric Berne's Games People
Play (recheck if 65) Rod McKuen: Stanyan Street
(?and other poems?)
Foxfire project started, Rabun County High School,
Georgia National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
founded
when?
Free
University in New York ?Ledbetter's in LA
1967
Toron-
to group starts to help draft resistors who are
fleeing to Canada, eventually 20,000 come Birth-
rate [crude], declining since 1957, drops to lowest level
in history when? Chavez calls first grape
boycott when? Jann Wenner (21) drops out of U.C. Berkeley
and starts Rolling Stone Magazine
Jan 1 New Year's Day Wail! - Angel's party for the Haight
in the Panhandle - "First free rock concert in the
park" Jan 1 Steve Durky/Durkee starts to buy land for
Lama Foundation, northern New Mexico (re-ck Com-
munes USA) Jan Leary's LSD "Celebration" arrives in SF
Jan 6 Berkeley Strike [Jan 10 Provos in Amsterdam
"bomb" royal wedding] delete? see 3/10/66 US troops
move into Mekong delta Jan 14 Gathering of the Tribes for
the First Human Be-In - 20,000 Polo Field GGP
[20,000 Bohemians bk ?!300,000(Ringolevio)]
(Ginsburg, McLure, Snyder, Leary, Ferlinghetti,
Lenore Kandel) put on by Haight Independent
Proprieters (H.I.P.) + the Communication Co.
Jan 18 Leary speaks at UCLA Jan 23 Kerr announces
tuition for U.C. Jan 27 US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning
nuc weapons in space Jan 27 death of Grissom, White, Chaf-
fee Apollo 1 blow up puts several month halt to
space program 67 Feb 25,000 US troops to Cambodian border
Feb *Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
(second use of sitar ?in pop/rock music)
and Penny Lane, Michelle, Yesterday Feb
19 Tribal Stomp (explain) spring SF: Happening House,
Huckleberry House, and the Switchboard started, as
well as Free Clinic Mar 1 Adam Clayton Powell denied
House seat (re-elected without campaign April 11)
Mar 1? Emmet Grogan to NY ("6 wks" to Apr 9)
Mar Mime Troupe busted at Univ of Calgary for marijuana
seed March James Hoffa finally goes to prison (appeals
exhausted) (8 year sentence) March Science:
LSD causes chromosome damage March Berk Barb: smokable
banana rumor 67 March Haight people start to hear about and
visit to Morning Star Farm (Sonoma) Mar
9 Fillmore opens 6 nights/week Mar 26 10,000 at Be-In
NY Central Park (Easter?) the Equinox?? Mar 18 The
first big oil spill: Torrey Canyon U.S. supertanker
wreck off Land's End, England: 119,000 tons/90,000
tons wash up on Devon, Cornwall, Brittany Apr
5 Grayline Tours starts touring Haight Apr 7 Tom
Donahue takes over KMPX, turns it into prog rock A 8-
10 Nashville Negro uprising, following Carmichael's
speech at Fisk University Tenn Hse of
Reps calls for Carmichael's deportation from the
state? wk bef Apr 15: 1965 draft card law held unconsti-
tutional by US first Circuit Court of Appeals 67 A
10-15 Vietnam Week: draft card burnings and turn-ins
& anti-draft recruiter demonstrations Apr
15 400,000 march from Central Park to UN against V War
addressed by MLK, McKissick, Carmichael, Spock
("led by MLK's Spring Mobilization Committee To End
the War in Vietnam") & SF 65,000 (Bd & Pup
est.) 250,000 Bd & Pup & 175 draft cards burned
A 11-24 Open housing drive: Louisville, Ky Apr
16 Negro uprising, Cleveland Apr 21 Military junta
seizes control of Greece (deposing king) May first week
Oakland Black Panthers demonstrate in the State
legislature; first national media attention
wkbfM19 Stokely Carmichael turns over Chair SNCC to H. Rap
Brown May Bertrand Russell's War Crimes Tribunal meets
in Stockholm, denounces U.S. leaders for
crimes against humanity in Vietnam May
`End of Provo' event - Vondelpark, Amsterdam
--> formation of Kabouters May Life: "Who
Says College Kids Have Changed? At Indiana Univ,
the students' main concern is looking out for No.
1"
1967 May
Paul
McCartney reveals that Beatles have all taken acid (May
20 NYC: Flower Power Day) May 27 Scott MacKenzie: Are
You Going to San Francisco enters charts May 30 Biafra de-
clares independence from Nigeria May 30 (Mem. Day) NYC,
Tompkins Square Park, Lower East Side: confronta-
tion between hippies & Puerto Ricans June Alpert to In-
dia for 3 mos June early - Diggers attend & boggle SDS
meeting in Michigan June 2 Sgt. Pepper released US J
16-18 Monterrey Pop Fest: 50,000 hear Byrds, Jef
Airp, Otis Redding, Mamas & Papas, Shankar
+ new Joplin, Hendrix, Who June Steve
Durkee founds Lama (Foundation) 115 acres New Mexico 67 June
21 Solstice party in Golden Gate Park: 30-50,000?
? "First day of summer": New Buffalo founded near
Taos, New Mexico (9 miles south of Lama) June
25 Beatles on tv introduce "All You Need Is Love"
"Summer of Love": 75,000/100,000 in Hashbury
[100,000 - Bohemians bk] June (end) Kesey
sentenced to 6 mos. June 30 448,800 American troops in
Vietnam (summer Dylan playing with The Band at Big Pink)
July?? First Reggae Sunsplash Festival July
2 Congress passes Selective Service Act reform:
ends grad student deferments & puts them in a pool
to be drafted in June 68 (July 5 Diggers be-
come the Free City Collective) July 11 Fonteyn & Nureyev
busted in Haight 67 July 12-
17 Neg
ro
uprising, Newark, NJ (set off bycab driver John
Smith's beating by police, after arrest for tail-
gating & driving the wrong way on one-way street)
1000 injured, 1400 arrested, 16 mill dollars pro-
perty damage July 19 Congress outlaws crossing state lines
to "incite to riot" J 23-30 Detroit Negro uprising: largest
U.S. riot of the century July 25 H. Rap Brown speech in
Cambridge is followed by uprising (rt bef next)
1,100 at Black Power Conference in Newark: Play-
wright LeRoi Jones; H. Rap Brown of SNCC; Charles
Kenyatta of the Harlem Mau Maus; Ron Karenga of US;
Dick Gregory July 26 H. Rap Brown arrested Washington air-
port under the new law July 27 Uprisings: Toledo, Ohio; Ro-
chester, NY; East Harlem (Puerto Rican youths);
Pontiac, Mich +++ (100+ cities) Natl
Guard called out for first time in quarter century
Aug when? Abbie Hoffman & others drop dollar bills on
the floor of the New York Stock Exchange 67 Aug
1 Stokely Carmichael calls for black revolution at
conference for Lat-Am Solidarity in Havana
echoed by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (in Bimini)
first use of "black" noticed by media Aug
3&6 Shob & Superspade killed (John Kent Carter,
25 & William Thomas, 26) when? Doors: Light My Fire Top
40 14 weeks Aug Life: Discotheques "dazzle senses in an
attempt to simulate a drug experience": Electric
Circus in the East Village adds audience participa-
tion Life: "its quite the thing to do to head for
Kathmandu" Shankar touring US & opens Kinnara
school of music LA Aug 7/8 George & Pattie Harrison visit
the Haight Aug 15 MLK urges civil disobedience drive in
northern cities & support of peace candidate in 68
(at Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
Atlanta) Aug 25 Beatles go to Wales to talk to the Mahar-
ishi Mahesh Yogi about Transcendental Meditation
Aug last week: Chocolate George killed in car collision
Aug 30 Thurgood Marshall, first black Sup Ct Justice, ap-
pointed Sept? Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Ti-
betan in Katmandu, stays in India & follows him un-
til he meets his guru Sept 500,000 in South Vietnam,
600,000 in Southeast Asia Sept 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) Sept 15 Donovan at Hollywood Bowl (must
be) Oct 2 Dead House at 710 Ashbury is busted Oct
3 Woody Guthrie dies Oct 4 Psychedelic Shop closes
and Thelins go to Wash DC for exorcism of Pentagon
Oct 5 Lawrence Lipton starts class at UCLA 67 Oct
6 Death of Hippie, Loyal Son of Media, birth of free man
Oct 8 Che Guevara killed in Bolivia (by troops trained in
U.S.) Oct 9 First edition Rolling Stone
Oct Carl Stokes becomes first black mayor of Cleveland
Oct 6-12 LA Free Press: Why did you get up this morning?
67 Oct
11&12+?
Teach-
in at UCLA (w David Harris) Oct 12 "A Call to Resist Il-
legitimate Authority", NY Review of Books 2,000
sign, including academics, clergymen, writers O 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 O 17 Joan Baez + 122 arrested Oak Induction
Center date? & Rev Wm Sloane Coffin Jr (43, Yale cha-
plain), Dr Benjamin Spock (64), Mitchell Goodman
(41, novelist), Marcus Raskin (33, former White
House Disarmament aide & co-director of Washington
research organization), and Michael Ferber (23,
Harvard grad student) and 1 other deliver draft
cards to U.S. Justice Dept. O 21-22 35,000/50,000/100,000
Wash DC - 647 arrested at Pentagon O 21 Diggers "Exor-
cism of the Pentagon" (psychedelic face paint &
flowers stuck in barrels of guns) Oct Rev. Philip Ber-
rigan, a Josephite priest, Tom Lewis, David
Eberhardt, and James Mengel pour duck's blood over
draft files in the Baltimore, Md. Sel. Serv. hdqs.
Oct 28 5 a.m.: Huey Newton (25) questioned by police in
Oakland "desolate district". One hour later under
arrest at hospital w gunshot wound in stomach. Few
weeks later indicted on murder of one officer (John
Frey Jr.), wounding of another, & kidnapping of by-
stander. Nov 7 Gen. Hershey announces draft crackdown on
deferred college students who are active in anti-
war demos Nov 14 5,000 demo outside NY foreign policy ban-
quet addressed by Sec of State Rusk Nov
21 Exorcism of the Pentagon, Wash DC march: 50,000
250 arrested including Norman Mailer (N
25 "last flower-child hippie-type demos in NYC -
after this, militant") Nov Air war
against N. Viet accelerated (bombing Hanoi) Nov Don
McCoy & friends start community at Olompoli Ranch
Nov Cream: Disreali Gears Nov 30 Eugene McCarthy
(Senator from Minnesotta) announces candidacy, run-
ning on anti-war platform was this the start of the
People's Party? Dec Life: Return of the Red Man
Dec 4 MLK announces Poor People's Campaign in Wash D.C.
(to start late spring) Dec 5 Opening of Ap-
ple Shop, Baker St, London with murals by The Fool
Black boycott of Olympics (announced?) 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
Dec 8? Otis Redding records "Dock of the Bay", his only
major hit Dec 10 Otis Redding dies at 26 in plane crash
Dec 22 Owsley busted in Orinda (stops production of acid)
solst "people started to leave for the country"
Dec?? Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Dec 31 Abbie
Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory,
& friends pronounce themselves "Yuppies"
1967 end: 486,000 American troops in Vietnam
Of the 15,000 killed, 60% died in 1967
1967
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING SAN FRANCISCO!
Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour *RS:
Between the Buttons w Ruby Tuesday &
Flowers & Satanic Majesty
*Donovan: Mellow Yellow *Wear
Your Love Like Heaven San Francisco - John Phillips
*Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow (second album)
*Grateful Dead *Big Brother & the
Holding Co (w Janis Joplin) *Byrds: Younger Than
Yesterday *Buffalo Springfield *Coun-
try Joe and the Fish *Jimi Hendrix: Experienced
*Doors: Light My Fire & first album
& Strange Days when was The End with sitar?
*Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
*Velvet Underground: first *Van
Morrison (on his own) (from UK) *Bee Gees (from UK)
*Spencer Davis Group (from UK) *Pink
Floyd (from UK) *Procol Harum (from UK)
*UK: John Mayall ?Bluesbreakers(with Eric Clapton)
Incredible String Band (from UK)
*Canned Heat *Moby Grape
*Pearls Before Swine Arlo Guthrie:
Alice's Restaurant Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley,
Sage, Rosemary & Thyme??? w Feelin
Groovy Janis Ian (16)'s first hit?: Society's Child
(about interracial dating) Judy
Collins: Who Knows Where the Time Goes Leaving on a
Jet Plane - John Denver Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
- Pete Seeger *Laura Nyro ? :Up
Up & Away
TV: Smothers Brothers D.A.
Pennebaker's Don't Look Back (Dylan) Bonnie & Clyde
The Battle of Algiers Ingrid Bergman
returns to US stage for first time after her US
career was "killed by scandel" in the late 40s La
Guere est Finie directed by Alain Resnais How I Won
the War with John Lennon The Graduate directed by
Mike Nichols (The Dirty Dozen) Planet
of the Apes [check]
R. D. Laing: Politics of Experience
Richard Brautigan: Trout-fishing in America
Twiggy Lama Foundation, San Cristo-
bal, New Mexico, founded (Washington Mag says
maxis)
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 Yogi Bhajan comes to U.S. to
teach Kundalini Yoga (Healthy, Happy, Holy)
when? Huey Newton starts 34 mos in jail during trial for
manslaughter in Oakland (released 1970)
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 brot back from Viet-
nam?) when? Dennis Banks, Russell Means, Clyde Bellecort
& others found AIM in Minneapolis, working towards
improving living conditions for urban Indians
Akwesasne Notes started by members of Mohawk Nation
Amer scientists tell natives evacuated in 1946 from
Bikini it is safe to return; by 1978, 139 who re-
turn found to contain dangerous levels of cesium &
re-evacuated The dollar is worth 362 yen; Japan is
still known for "cheap" trinket import items
68 SDS has 100,000 "members" Ivan E.
Sutherland at Univ of Utah, invents first head-
mounted Virtual Reality display, but powerful
enough computer to use with it does not yet exist
Dylan: John Wesley Harding Carnegie
Hall: Tribute to Woody Guthrie (Pete Seeger, Jack
Elliott, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton,
Odetta, Richie Havens, & Dylan with The Band)
Jan-May 40,000 students participate in 221 major demonstra-
tions on 101 campuses Jan 2 Federal: bil-
ingual ed. Jan 5 Spock, Coffin, Mitchell Goodman, Micha-
el Ferber, & Marcus Raskin indicted for delivering
draft cards (Oct) Jan 16 Youth International Party
(Y.I.P.) founded - Country Joe & Fish, Fugs,
Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krass-
ner, Phil Ochs, Jerry Rubin (25 artists, writers &
revolutionaries) 68 Jan 18 Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White
House speaks out against the war Jan 22 B-52
carrying H-Bomb crashes in Greenland Jan 23 Pueblo seized
by Korea Jan 31 Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive - (to Feb
24) 70,000 Viet Cong troops attack 100 S.Viet ci-
ties start of the turnaround + pic-
ture of police chief shooting VC in head Feb 9 In the
land of the blind Feb 16 Draft deferments for most grad
students & all occupational deferments eliminated
Feb 17 Second Tribal Stomp Feb Leary evicted
from Millbrook house Feb *Beatles to India to visit
Maharishi (at Rishikesh on the Ganges)
+ Mia Farrow, Donovan Ringo stays 10
days, Paul 9 weeks, John & George longer & Mahar-
ishi Mahesh coming to US Feb 29 RFK & Javits, NY's Sena-
tors, speak out 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 Mar 2 RFK speech to
Congress about Vietnam 68 Mar 8-9 Warsaw student uprisings,
Mar 11 workers uprising March 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) Mar McCarthy's "Children's
Crusade": thousands work on New Hampshire primary,
calling on nearly every voter in the state Mar 12 10,000
students go door to door in heavy snows Mar 12 Eugene
McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote, overtaking
the Pres, & causing RFK to "reconsider" on Vietnam
(& LBJ not to run, sez Great Expectations p.113)
Mar 16 RFK declares candidacy Mar 19 Pres advisors
advise getting out of Vietnam war (Mar 22 first N.Y. YIP
event) Olympic boycott Mar 31 LBJ announces
decision not to run again and offers partial bomb-
ing halt and appointment of Averell Harriman to
seek negotiations Apr 1 Supreme Court extends one-man,
one-vote doctrine to local governments ?Baker vs.
Carr -> reapportionment 68 Apr 4 MLK shot and killed, at
Memphis motel, 7 p.m. during Poor People's Cam-
paign (39 years old); within two hours: A 4-
11 Black uprisings Chicago, Baltimore, Wash DC, Cincinnati,
Boston, Detroit, Phil, SF, Toldeo, Pittsburgh
125 cities in 29 states total Apr 6 Cleaver
arrested with a bullet-shattered leg during Oak
police ambush on Panthers + Bobby Hutton (17) shot
and killed Apr 11 LBJ signs civil rights bill banning
housing discrimination (with anti-riot felony
amendment) Apr 11 Major call-up of reserves for duty in
Vietnam Apr 14 (Easter Sunday) Love-in Malibu Canyon
Peak of demonstrations in West Berlin against
Axel Springer & his publishing empire, after
assasination attempt on Rudi Dutschke ("Red Rudy")
Apr 15 Spring Mobilization against the war 68 A 23-
30 Students take over 5 Colombia Univ bldgs pro-
testing 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, strike continues for another
month Apr 25 Paul Horn records in the Taj Mahal Apr
29 Rev. Ralph Abernathy succeeds MLK as President
of Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ap/May Black Panthers start Free Breakfast for Children
program My 2-17 SCLC Poor People's March on Washington
3,000 erect Resurrection City, tent city on the
Mall My 2-14 Street fighting in Paris May 13 US &
Viet begin talks in Paris 68 M 13-30 France: Sorbonne demons-
trations: humanism vs technology French students
occupy the Sorbonne Demonstrations in Madrid, Rome,
Berlin, NY, & Czechoslovakia (during "Prague
Spring") May Two Virgins: Lennon & Yoko naked
Beatles launch Apple Corps when? Former
Stanford Student Body President David Harris mar-
ries Joan Baez May Life: abundance of show biz people
in Presidential campaign 68 May 21 Tom Donahue & djs from
KMPX start [new format at] KSAN May 21 Second mass arrest
at Columbia University May 22 H. Rap Brown of SNCC con-
victed for carrying weapon across state lines
May 24 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 May 28 McCarthy
wins over RFK in Oregon primaries June 3 Andy Warhol shot
June 4 Calif primaries: RFK wins June 5 RFK shot
(42), Ambassador Hotel, LA (Sirhan Sirhan arrested)
(Jn 8 James Earl Ray (accused of MLK murder), arrested
London) 68 June 14 Spock, Coffin, Ferber, Goodman convicted of
conspiracy for "draft counseling"
1968 June
oldest
baby boomers graduate college June 18 Monterey Pop June
25 Poor People's Campaign March 50,000 Georgia to Wash D.C.
June Libre, Colorado community founded
summer early - Hayden to Paris to confer w N. Vietnamese
reps. 68 summer Haight Ashbury Media Summer + "Young Ameri-
cans Abroad" July 4 Graham first concert at Fillmore West
(Van Ness & Market) July Yellow Submarine movie
July Haight Ashbury riot (including B of A burning
leads to H.I.P. boarding up their stores
Wallace campaign, and McGovern enters the race
J 23-24 Cleveland black uprising July Pope's birth
control encyclical Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
signed Operation Breadbasket, Chicago, begins with
boycott of A&P stores over discrim in hiring,
with Jesse Jackson, 27, as head?
July U.S. Viet tropps increase by 19,000 to 535,000
1968?? Peace & Freedom Party campaign?
Cleaver for Pres, then Dick Gregory??
Aug Cream: Wheels of Fire Aug First Apple
release: Beatles: Hey Jude & Revolution Aug 1000 meet
in prayer before UN for food aid to Biafra Aug Panthers
Tommy Lewis, 18 & Steve Bartholomew, 21 and ?Arthur
Morris, 28 shot to death by police in Los Angeles
A 20-21 Soviet tanks invade Prague, Czech with 200,000
troops A 25-29 Democratic Convention in Chicago:
demonstrations & police riot 10,000?
demonstrators vs. 11,000 Chicago police; 6,000 Na-
tional Guard; 7,500 U.S. army troops; and 1,000
FBI,CIA & army/navy intelligence services agents
(Humphrey nominated on platform supporting the war)
(A 27 candlelight, matches at Yippie Festival concert,
coliseum) fall women's movement groups start in Berkeley
68 Sept 8 Huey Newton (leader Black Panther Party) convicted
Oakland vol manslaughter Oak policeman
Sept Stock Market starts 18 month +? downhill slide
Sept American Indian Movement (AIM) born as a volunteer
street patrol to combat police brutality, Minneapo-
lis Sept 18 Troops invade Mexico City Natl Univ (demos
since mid summer) Sept "Eldridge Cleaver banned from
lecturing on U.C. Berk campus" Oct 2 After 9 weeks of
student strikes, Mexican military opens fire on
6,000 gathered in housing project plaza for march
on Natl Polytech Institute to protest army occupa-
tion 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 VC flag Oct Angela Davis,
26?, goes to jail Oct 18 John & Yoko busted
Oct late- 4000 demonstrators at U.C. Berk after Regents
deny credit for Cleaver's course Nov ("a
few weeks after late Oct") Cleaver flees to Algeria
68 Nov First Whole Earth Catalog O31/N1 LBJ orders
halt to all bombing in Viet 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 Cream's Farewell
Concert at the Royal Albert Hall Priests from all
over US meet in Wash to protest Pope's ban on con-
traception. Many start to renounce their vows ?Dr.
Paul Ehrlich & Dr. Thomas Eisner found ZPG at Yale
Nov Yoko's miscarriage Nov Hayakawa closes SF
State for 8 days (reopens Dec 2) N?D? 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
Dec (1) National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of
Violence releases "Walker report" which censures
Chicago Police for behavior during "Police Riot" at
Democratic Natl Convention Dec 2 NY City high school stu-
dents uprising: Brooklyn + D 13-16 San Mateo College closed
D 21-27 Apollo 8 with three astronauts circles moon ten
times & takes photo of earth rising behind the moon
on Dec 24
1968
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING Abraham, Martin & John
*RS: Beggar's Banquet ?Beatles: White
Album [or was this 69?] Hey Jude; Lady Ma-
donna Dylan: John Wesley Harding *The
Band: Music from the Big Pink *Donovan: From a
Flower to a Garden & Hurdy Gurdy Man
Simon & Garfunkxx: Bridge over Troubled Water
*Doors: Waiting for the Sun *Hendrix:
Axis Bold As Love & Electric Ladyland
*Fleetwood Mac *Steve Miller
*Quicksilver Dr. John: first solo
*Sly and the Family Stone Creedence
Clearwater Revival *Blue Cheer ("Heavy Metal")
*Iron Butterfly ("Heavy Metal") *Vel-
vet Underground: White Light/White Heat ("H M")
*Deep Purple ("Heavy Metal") *Moody
Blues *Electric Flag *Blood, Sweat &
Tears *Seatrain (formed from Blues Project)
*Jeff Beck Group (from UK) *Traffic
(from UK) *Joe Cocker (from UK) *Bon-
zo Dog Band (from UK) *Pentangle (from UK)
*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)
Z If . . . Yellow Sub-
marine 2001 directed by Kubrick Hair
(from April 29) (Planet of the Apes, Barbarella)
??I Am Curious - Yellow
first Zap Comix Tom Wolfe: Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test Eldrige Cleaver: Soul on Ice
Dr. Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb
Akwesasne Notes starts publication
Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan
Aerobics - Dr. Kenneth Cooper
(first use of the term for exercise)
Tiny Tim Peter Max "Un-
isex clothing" Jogging 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, Califor-
nia, founded
1969
Peak
of China's "Cultural Revolution" Airplane hijack-
ings 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 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 op-
pose Peabody Coal Co strip mining
Jan Panthers John Huggins, 23 & Alprentice (?Bunchy)
Carter, 26 shot to death in UCLA lunchroom Jan
6 SF 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
admin bldg Jan 8 San Jose: Teachers join strike Jan
28 Sta Barb oil well blowout (continues into midsummer)
Jan 30 Howard Univ: Med schl frosh boycott anatomy courses
until Feb ouster of dept 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 Feb massive strike
U.C. Berkeley for ethnic studies Feb 5 Reagan declares
state of extreme emergency Feb 11 St. George Williams Col-
lege, Montreal: 200 students smash computer with
axes & set computer center on fire during sit-in
protesting prof's racism Feb 12 Howard Univ: law school
protest Feb 13 Univ of Mass: 33 arrested at admin bldg
sit-in F 18-19 Howard Univ: bldg seized & boycott started
Feb 22 Rice Univ: 1,000 students & 200 faculty rally
protesting presidential appointment F 24-
25 Penn State Univ: admin bldg occupied Feb 27 U.C.
Berkeley: police charge student picket lines, club
and arrest two Chicano leaders Feb 27 U of Wisconsin
(Madison): thousands rampage thru nine buildings
over black enrollments Feb 27 University of Chicago: march
Mar Chicago Eight indicted Mar 12 Paul McCartney
marries Linda Eastman Mar 13 George Harrison's house raid-
ed 69 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 John & Yoko fly to Gibraltar & get married
then fly to Amsterdam for one week "lie-in" for
peace Mar 24 Lennox Raphael's play Che is busted for ob-
scenity two days after opening at the Free Store
Theatre in Manhattan 69 Apr Dylan: Nashville Skyline
Apr Beatles "Get Back" single released
Apr start creating People's Park on land near the U.C.
campus, vacant for a year or two since houses
bulldozed when? ASUC election: in large turnout, UC stu-
dents vote to keep the land as a park Apr
3 Fed Reserve Bd raises prime rate from 5 1/2 to 6%
(highest in 40 years) Apr 4 Smothers Broth-
ers tv show canceled `controversial' also Bill Cos-
by tv show canceled around this time Rowan & Martin
's Laugh-in starts around this time Apr 4-6 Demonstations
on the anniversary of MLK's death & anti-war: Chi-
cago; Memphis (10,000 gather to pay tribute); NY
(20,000+ up Fifth Ave, some with "33,000" armbands-explain)
(Is this the Bryant Park demo?) Apr 9 Har-
vard: 300 led by SDS seize Univ Hall Apr 10 Harvard: Pol-
ice called in; 37 injured, 200 arrested Apr 11 Harvard:
start of 3 day student strike Apr 18 Harvard votes to make
?ROTC "extracurricular" Apr 22 Harvard faculty votes to
create black studies program & give students vote
in selection of its faculty Apr 22 City College of NY
closed after black & Puerto Rican students lock
selves inside asking higher minority enrollment 69 Apr 24 B-
52 launch biggest attack on N? Vietnam demos NY
(Sixth Ave), Atlanta, Chicago, Calif - 40 cities
Demos and strike at Cornell Apr 30 543,000
US soldiers in Vietnam May when? Fifteen people enter
Chicago central draft depository and destroy all
records of twelve local draft boards and some files
of eight others May when? John and Yoko: Montreal bed-
in week and record "Give Peace a Chance" May
7 Lou Gottlieb deeds Morning Star Ranch to God May
13 Nixon sends draft reform plan to Congress May 14 Sup
Ct Justice Abe Fortas resigns under fire for per-
sonal conduct (first in history) May 14 Night: police
build fence around People's Park May 15 People's Park:
James Rector (25) killed Reagan: "If it's a blood
bath, then let it be now." orders gassing of U.C.
campus 60 wounded, including Alan
Blanchard blinded for life, Steve Carr -> 17 days
of street fighting, ending in march by 30,000 150
demonstrators shot & wounded May 19 Sup Ct overturns Leary
conviction for crossing Mex to Texas w mj - over-
turns 2 fed anti-mj laws May 20 134 day class boycott of
San Francisco State settled May 21? Police in helicopters
drop teargas on U.C. Berk campus rally May 22 Colombia:
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 govt allows Am mil
deserters to settle in Canada" May 30 (Mem 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 uses the term "space-
ship earth" June Berkeley Ecology Center (first in U.S.)
opens June Progressive Labor Party takes over SDS,
Weathermen born 69 June 8 Nixon announces withdrawal of
25,000 troops from Viet (of 540,000) by Aug 31
June Prime? rate 7 1/2 to 8 1/2% (third hike in 69)
June Commencement protests anti-Viet +
(Brandeis, Yale, Wesleyan +++) Brown University:
two-thirds of graduating class turn their backs on
Henry Kissinger's address June 28 Police raid of Christo-
pher Street, NY bar sets off Stonewall Riots -->
start of gay lib mvmt recheck 1969-70
1969 July?1?
First
Draft Lottery could this be? see 11/69 July 3 Brian
Jones of Rolling Stones dies July 7 Charles Ever sworn in
as first black mayor of biracial town in Mississip-
pi 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 park activists storm People's Park July 18 Sen. Ted
Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick (Mary Jo Ko-
pechne, 28, killed) Life: The Youth Communes
July 20 Apollo 11: Armstrong & Aldrin first walk on the
moon & earthrise from the moon photo taken
when? Cleaver (still) in Algeria & Carmichael in Guinea
69 summer Gaskin's travels -> The Farm founded, Summertown,
Tenn. summer & fall: In the wake of the success of Easy
Rider, Hollywood briefly opens up to new, young,
low-budget filmmakers July 31 People's Park paved over
(huh?) Aug Blind Faith forms, with Eric Clapton, Ginger
Baker from Cream and Steve Winwood from Traffic
Aug Sonoma County sends bulldozers onto Morning Star
Ranch to remove structures Aug 9 Sharon
Tate & LaBiancas found murdered Aug 17 wkend Woodstock:
300,000 Richie Havens, Jef Air, Dead, CSN&Y, Creed
C Rev, Who, the Band, Joplin, Hendrix Aug
20 Oakland: Bobby Seale, Natl Chair BPParty, arrested for
New Haven murder of former Panther Alex Rachey
(suspected black informer) (charges eventually
dropped) Aug last Sat & Sun Isle of Wight Festival:
200,000 including Dylan with The Band [I've seen
this as 70 too] 69 Sept 3 Ho Chi Minh dies 69 Sept
13 Toronto: Lennon & "Plastic Ono Band" Sept 15 David
Brower announces founding of Friends of the Earth Sept
24 Trial of Chicago Eight starts (David Del-
linger, Rennie Davis, Thomas Hayden, Abbie Hoffman,
Jerry Rubin, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Bobby Seale)
Sept 28 W Germany: first (postwar) Socialists take power
(Willy Brandt & Social Democrats in coalition with
Free Democrats) Oct early: Beatles: Abbey Road
Dylan bootleg: Great White Wonder oct
6 Weathermen blow up statue commemorating police victims
of Haymarket bombings Oct
8 Weathermen/Weather Underground violent "Days of Rage"
demos, Chicago - 3 shot, 300 arrested Oct
9 2,500 Natl Guard called in -> Oct ll Oct 12? Gitlin
says Manson arrested and charged 69 Oct 15 Viet Moratorium
** [Peace Day] thruout US (organized by Sam Brown &
David Mixner) 100,000 Boston Common / 40,000 Bryant
Park, Manhattan / 30,000 candlelight march past
White House, led by MLK (Life) Wash D.C.: names of
45,000 Amers killed in Viet carried 12,000 Chicago
& Pres of 79 colleges appeal to Nixon to step up
withdrawal timetable (black armbands worn all over
the U.S.) [10 million involved throughout the U.S.]
John Lennon returns MBE to protest UK's involvement
in the Nigerian war & its support of US in Vietnam
Oct 21 Jack Kerouac dies McCartney dead? ru-
mor starts O 29-31 Chicago Eight Trial: Judge Hoffman ord-
ers Bobby Seale bound & gagged (after refused per-
mission to act as or have his own defense counsel)
Oct 30 Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation thru
out U.S. Oct 31 Wheeler's Ranch invaded by 25-man army of
policemen, narcotics agents, juvenile officers, FBI
agents, etc. without search warrant; when one of
female residents arrested, Bill Wheeler objected,
and was attacked; Bill Wheeler and four others
arrested for assault; all later found not guilty
Nov 3 Nixon announces "Vietnamization" program to shift
Vietnam fighting from U.S. troops to U.S.-trained
local troops Nov 4 Chicago Eight Trial becomes Chicago
Seven Trial: Seale cited by Judge Hoffman for con-
tempt & given 4 years in jail; retrial ordered on
Seale's case Nov Attempt to introduce the maxi (coat)
starts Nov eight bombings in Manhattan Nov 9 78
Native Americans land on & occupy Alcatraz Island
in San Francisco Bay, site of an abandoned military
base Nov 13 Second National Moratorium N 13-
15 Weathermen led by Rubin & Hoffman march on Justice Dept.
69 Nov 14 Crosby-Stills Nash & Yg concert + Joy
of Cooking (Winterland) before Nov 15 Mobilization: Wash
DC march 250,000 (-750,000 Gitlin) Capitol to Penn
Ave to Wash mon Speakers: McCarthy, Sen. George
McGovern, Sen. Charles Goodell, Coretta King, Dick
Gregory, Leonard Bernstein; Singers: Arlo Guthrie,
Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, & Mary, John Denver,
Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair Nov 19 Congress passes
random selection of draftees thru lottery & permits
first calling of 19 yr olds & expired college
deferments & allows call-up by birthday
(+ second lottery by first letter of last name
within each date group + third for within letters)
Nov 21 Senate turns down first Sup Ct nominee (Nixon's)
since 1930 Nov 24 Apollo 12: second landing on moon
Nov 30 U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley charged with
covering up the massacre of 567 civilians by his
troops at Mylai, Vietnam in March 1968 Nov
30 600 Native Americans occupying Alcatraz Dec 1 First
Draft Lottery Dec 4 Panthers Fred Hampton (21) & Mark
Clark (22) shot and killed in their beds by Chicago
police during raid making at least 19 Panther
leaders (they claim 28) killed in 18 months (+ Huey
Newton currently in prison) Dec 24 Manson `Family' indict-
ments Rolling Stones free concert at end of tour,
Altamont racetrack, Ca: 300,000 attend
Meredith Hunter (18) killed
1969
by
end, over 100,000 Americans have died in Vietnam
65,000 troops brought home to U.S.
1969
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING *Beatles: Abbey Road
*Lennon & Plastic Ono Band: Give Peace a Chance
*Lennon & Ono: Two Virgins *Harrison:
Wonderwall *RS: 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 *Dan Hicks *Janis Joplin: Kozm-
ic w Bobby McGee? Jim Croce
*Neil Young (from Buffalo Springfield) first solo
Jethro Tull *Captain Beefheard: Trout
Mask Replica *Led Zeppelin *MC5
("Heavy Metal") *Black Pearl ("Heavy Metal")
*Grand Funk Railroad ("Heavy Metal")
*King Crimson *Chicago
*Miles Davis (*Desmond Decker: The
Israelites - pre-Reggae) ? Jim Kweskin's Jug Band
(with Maria Muldaur)
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]; Butch
Cassidy; Startrek taken off tv after 3 yr run
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-Ross: On Death and Dying
Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship
Earth How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive - John Muir
Custer Died for Your Sins - Vine Deloria, Jr.
Arcology: The City in the Image of Man - Paolo
Soleri maxi coats (floor length)
first? unixsex haircutting salon
1970
Com-
mon Cause founded Jim Hightower founds Agribusiness
Accountability Project, Nader-type group to inves-
tigate conglomerate influence over U.S. food supply
Celestial Seasonings founded, Boulder, Colorado
when? Dem. Party Commission (Sen. Geo McGovern, chair)
begins reform 174 bombings on college campuses
between fall 69 and spring 70 400,000 Americans
soldiers in Vietnam, sez EWJ
when? Gdansk shipyard strike (Poland)
Jan Radical Chic parties by Bernsteins to
raise funds for Panthers The Last Days of Biafra
Jan 1 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) signed by
Nixon (?creates EPA+) Jan 2 Supreme Court
rules unconstitutional General Lewis Hershey's 1967
directive that local draft boards reclassify to 1-A
(eligible for active duty) anti-draft demonstrators Jan
5 Mississippi integrates first three districts of its
public schools Jan 6 Supreme Court upholds
prohibition of underground GI anti-war newspaper at
Fort Bragg Jan 13 Three black prisoners killed by guard at
Soledad Prison during melee Jan 16 Guard
killed at Soledad Prison; Soledad Brothers (includ-
ing George Jackson) accused Feb Leary sentenced to 10
years for Texas/Mex mj bust Feb 4 "riot in Isla Vista
protesting Chicago verdicts, ended in B of A bomb-
ing" (sez Gitlin) Feb 9 NY: Underground `Rat' publishes
Robin Morgan's "Goodbye to All That" feminist
statement Feb 16 Demo for "The Chicago Seven" - City Hall
Park & Foley Sq (NYC?) Feb 19 Chicago Seven Trial: Del-
linger, Davis, Hayden, Hoffman, & Rubin found guil-
ty of crossing state lines to incite riot; Froines
& Weiner acquitted; attorneys William Kunstler &
Leonard Weinglass sentenced for contempt of court;
all appealed Feb 20 - sentenced Feb
19-28 in prison on Judge Hoffman's contempt charges
"half a million people in the streets"
(Oil spill Tampa Bay near St. Petersburg)
Explosions in 3 office buildings in NY;
Explosions in Calif; Wash; Maryland; Mich Feb
25 Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Bank of America burning Mar
6 three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village
(house of Cathy Wilkerson's father)
(Diana Oughton, Cathlyn Wilkerson, Kathy Boudin)
Cambodia: Prince Sihanouk deposed by conservatives
for allowing Pathet Lao & N. Viet forces to cross
the Plain of Jars Mar Women's Wear Daily decrees skirts
are going midi. For the first time, not everybody
listens Alaska's oil bonanza/rush
While Sihanouk is in Europe, Cambodian government
demands that the North Vietnamese & Viet Cong
troops withdraw Mar 18 Coup in Cambodia Mar 23 Nix-
on calls out Natl Guard to alleviate delays caused
by the first widespread postal workers' strike
Mar 31 Oak Induc Center spring 2500 Berkeley stu-
dents turn in draft cards, typical of U.S. (before
Cambodian protests even start) (Gitlin) spring Dennis
Hopper in Peru making The Last Movie (Kristofferson
music), meets Joplin spring Huey Newton released 70 Apr
Post office strike starts (huh? - see Mar 23)
Apr Philip & Daniel Berrigan go underground to avoid
serving sentences Apr 7 Ronald Reagan, Gov.
of Calif: "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it
over with." Apr 10 McCartney announces dissolution of Bea-
tles John & Yoko to California for 4 months of Dr.
Arthur Janov's Primal Scream therapy
Apr Apollo 13 (third trip to the moon) - accident
70 Apr 22 Earth Day: millions participate in Wash, NY, +
Apr 23 (ck) Bobby Seale (Chicago?) retrial begins Apr
30 Nixon sends troops into Cambodia to aid the Lon Nol govt
(until June 30) (30,000 US + 40,000+ So Viet) (an-
nounces on tv) when? "a few months after Feb": U of
Wisconsin bldg bombed, killing researcher
May First week: 30 ROTC bldgs burned or bombed,
Natl Guard on 21 campuses in 16 states May
1 (Saturday) ROTC bldg ransacked College Park, Wash D.C.
"M 1-2" New Haven: new protests over the pending trial of
Seale & Ericka Hu/iggins -> 20,000 by Sunday
May 2 (Sunday) ROTC bldg burned down at Kent State
May 3 Yale Day: 15,000 protest 9 Black Panthers awaiting
trial in New Haven 70 May 4 Kent State Univer-
sity, Ohio: National Guard fires into crowd at
anti-war demonstration, 4 students killed & 8 wounded May
4 5,000 demo at College Park, Wash D.C., 450 policemen
unable to disperse, 600 Natl Guard sent in
_____ _____________________________________________________________
M 6-20? The Strike 448 colleges 1 million+ students
"4 million students" Gitlin: 750+
campuses (of 2500 nationwide), demos at 1200+
(demonstrations against sending troops to Cambodia)
when? ?including? Stanford "worst riots in its history"
(75 campuses stayed closed thru rest of the school
year) ----- ----------
-------------------------------------------------- May
8 (ck) Nixon fire Gen. Lewis Hershey as director of the
Selective Service & agrees to withdraw all U.S.
troops from Cambodia within 30 days May
9 Mobilization: 100,000+ in Wash D.C. on only 10 days notice
(Git) M 9-11 50-60,000 demonstrators gather in Washington
May 13 Movement for a New Congress - to elect peace
candidates founded at Princeton Univ 70 M
14/15 Jackson State College woman's dorm, Mississippi:
two black students killed, 9/12/12 wounded - no
media coverage May Philip Berrigan captured, sent to
Federal Penitentiary Also H. Rap Brown jumps bail
on way to Maryland trial for inciting riot & arson
Ma/Jun? Alcatraz removals 70 wkbfM22 crashing Stock
Market: last 18 months 985 -> 631 "greatest loss
since '29" ?June Five Kabouters elected to Amsterdam Mun-
icipal Council including former Provo theorist Roel
van Duyn, who starts off by arriving at meetings on
a bicycle June Dylan: Self-Portrait June Lou
Gottlieb back in court to defend ownership of Morn-
ing Star Ranch by God June 15 Sup Ct rules any indiv may
object to military service on ethical & moral
grounds, if such convictions "are deeply felt",
giving more responsibility to local draft boards
June 19 Two banks bombed in Berkeley
June !commencement demonstrations/anti-commencements
Dylan accepts honorary degree at Princeton June
22 Voting age lowered to 18 wk bef J
29 Sen-
ate votes 81-10 to repeal Gulf of Tonkin res &
passes the future aid to Lon Nol without conges-
sional approval June 28 First Gay rights march NYC 70 June
29 Last Amer soldiers in Cambodia withdrawn 1970 July
1 Second(?)
draft lottery July?? Abortions legalized? sum-
mer 28 commissioned military officers, representing
250 others, form Concerned Officers Movement
against the war summer Chicago Grant Park
riot Aug 5 Huey Newton ruled not guity of voluntary
manslaughter & released (+ trip to China) Aug
7 Courtroom kidnap in San Rafael: Jonathan
Jackson, 17, h.s. student from Pasadena and Angela
Davis's ex-bodyguard & brother of George Jackson,
one of the Soledad Bros., attempt to spring James
McClain at his hearing, plus ?Ruchell Magee & Wm
Christmas who are present as inmate witnesses;
McClain & Christmas killed, as well as Judge Harold
Halay Aug 11 Daniel Berrigan recaptured, sent to Fed.
Pent. Aug 29 Powder Ridge, Conn music fest prohibited but
30,000 show up anyway Aug 29 Selective Ser-
vice Systems report: prosecutions for draft evasion
have increased ten times over 1965 level Aug 29 thousands
of Chicanos gather at Laguna Park in East L.A. to
protest disproportionate number of deaths of Chicano
soldiers in Vietnam. LAPD attack & one shot, fired
into Silver Dollar Bar, kills Ruben Salazar, LA
Times columnist & commentator on KMEX TV (accused
by LAPD of inciting the Chicano community)
Aug (end) Amsterdam bans sleeping outdoors; confronta-
tions lead to establishment of Vondel Park
sleeping area (for 3 years) Sept Selective
Service Systems report: 271 "anti-draft occur-
rances" since January Sept 12 Leary escapes prison (San
Luis Obispo) with help from the Weather Under-
ground, joins Cleaver in Algiers Sept 18 Jimi Hendrix dies
at 27 Monterey Folk Festival (Kristofferson)
70 Oct 4 Janis Joplin dies at 27 Oct Jane Fonda
starts campus speaking tour Oct Yoko has miscarriage
Oct 12 Gaskin's caravan leaves SF Oct 13 Angela
Davis, 26, arrested Manhattan charged with involve-
ment in Aug courtroom kidnap Still trying to get
the midi in Oct Dylan: New Morning Oct 26 Bank
of America fire, Irvine Nov 3 Chile: Allende (first Marx-
ist) sworn in Nov 5 Indians occupy federal land near
Davis Nov 17 Trial of Bobby Seale & Ericka Huggins begins
(ended May 25, 71) Dec 4 Cesar Chavez
jailed for lettuce boycott (was this the first?)
Dec 15 Bank of America bombing, Santa Barbara
70 Dec McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles
Dec John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band : "the Primal album"
God is a Concept, the dream is over
(Lennon's first solo album) Dec Hundreds
of Vietnam Veterans Against the War testify at
"Winter Soldier" investigations in Detroit
about Vietnam atrocities Senate votes
to halt funds for SST development Dec Geronimo Pratt,
Black Panther's Defense Minister, charged with
murder & starts 17 years in prison Dec Nixon signs Natl
Air Quality Control Act, requiring 90% reduction in
car-exhaust pollution by 75
1966-70 Military desertion rate 300%
1967-70 Conscientious objectors 20,000 -> 40,000
1971 80,000 draft resistors have fled to Canada
1970 another 140,000 troops brought home to U.S.
(Stock market at a low, starts recovery)
1970
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING Hot Tuna out Ry
Cooder CSN&Y: Deja vu *Joni Mitchell:
Ladies of the Canyon *Dylan: New Morning
?Lennon: A Working Class Hero (what album was this)
*Eric Clapton *Hendrix: Band of Gyp-
sys *RS: Get Yer Ya Ya's Out *Harris-
on: All Things Must Pass *Beatles: Let It Be
*Black Sabbath ("Heavy Metal") Judy
Collins: Whales & Nightingales *Linda Ronstadt
*James Taylor Rita Coolidge
*CSN & Y: Deja Vu *Stephen Stills
first solo *Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled
Water *John McLaughlin *Allman Broth-
ers Band Johnny Winter *Elton John
(from UK) *Jimmy Cliff: first *John
Renbourn: first solo *Cat Stevens
Eric Clapton's first solo (Easy Now)
Harrison: All Things Must Pass De-
lanie & Bonnie & Friends: Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour
(with Rita Coolidge along)
TV: Dick Cavett show starts Bergman:
The Passion of Anna Fellini: The Clowns
Bertolucci: The Conformist Five Easy
Pieces They Shoot Horses, Don't They (I have this
as 69 too) M*A*S*H (war humor) (the movie)
(was this when the tv show started?)
Catch 22 the film Women In Love (" ")
Hair all over the world Woodstock the
film Little Big Man Performance
Virgin & the Gypsy (Love Story)
Living on The Earth - Alicia Bay
Laurel The Tassajara Bread Book Our
Bodies Ourselves Painless Childbirth - Fernand
Lamaze (translated from the French edition
published around 1956) Domebook One - Lloyd Kahn &
Bob Easton The Greening of America - Charles Reich
Tom Wolf: Radical Chic Scott & Helen
Nearing's Living the Good Life republished &
sells 170,000 copies Jerry Rubin: Do It!
More than 50 underground anti-war military newspa-
pers being published Sexual Pol-
itics - Kate Millett Alvin Toffler: Future Shock
I and Thou - Martin Buber Zen Mind,
Beginners Mind - Suzuki Roshi Deschooling Society -
Ivan Illich Vitamin C and the Common Cold - Linus
Pauling Arthur Janov: The Primal Scream
What Color is Your Parachute? - Richard Bolles
Up the Organization - Robert Townsend
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Erik Van Daniken [.. over a] - Chariots of the Gods
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude
(orig? translation?)
Paulo Soleri starts building Arcosanti
Swami Muktananda introduced to US (by Ram Dass)
- Siddha meditation
1971 when?
Oregon
becomes first state to pass a bottle deposit and
return bill when? D.Q. University established
Supersonic transport (SST) project canceled
National debate over fate of elms in central Stock-
holm square (Kungstradgarden)
Jan Two Standard Oil tankers collision & spill, SF
five days later, Esso tanker spill, Long Island
Sound Jan Senator George McGovern opens campaign for
Pres Jan 7 DDT use outlawed by U.S. Court of Appeals
Jan 12 Rev. Philip F. Berrigan (47) (serving 6 yr term in
Fed prison Danbury, Conn. on charges of destroying
draft records) + 5 others indicted on charges of
conspiring to kidnap Kissinger & plotting to blow
up the heating terminals of Fed bldgs (Rev. Joseph
R. Wenderoth, 35; Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, 30; An-
thony Scoblick, 30 - former priest; Eqbal Ahmad, 40
- fellow of Adlai Stev Inst of Public Affairs; Sis-
ter Elizabeth McAllister, 31 - of Marymount Col,
Tarrytown, NY Jan 25 Charles Manson(36), Susan Atkins
(22), Patricia Krenwinkel (23), Leslie Van Houten
(21) found guilty/convicted 71 Feb oil prices raised by
OPEC for the first time 16,000 South Vietnamese
troops march into Laos with massive U.S. air sup-
port - "hundreds of thousands protest in Wash & SF"
Senate hearings start on army spying on private ci-
tizens Mar 1 Bomb explodes in Capitol men's room; Weather
Underground claims responsibility "in retaliation
for the Laos decision" Mar 8 Supreme Court rules that ob-
jection to a particular war is not sufficient
grounds for conscientious objection (Guy Gillette &
Louis Negal? cases) Mar 11 Puerto Rico: uprising Univ of
Puerto Rico Mar 23 Congress votes to lower voting age to
18 Mar 29 Calley convicted Mar 29 Manson + 3 sen-
tenced (to death) (after 9 1/2 month trial - long-
est in Calif history) spring Abbie Hoffman releases Steal
This Book ?? spring Werner Ehrhard (sp?) holds first EST
training (yes-1971) Homosexuals march in NY (see
Life Dec 71) A 19-23 1000+ Veterans demonstrate against
Viet war in Wash D.C., throwing their medals over
the Capitol fence Apr 24 200,000 Veterans march - Wash
D.C. + SF simultaneous march of 156,000
Apr Retreat from Laos what's the date?
Apr First China visit by US journalists since xx
& U.S. table tennis team is invited to China
Repub. Congressman Paul McCloskey talking of run-
ning against Nixon on anti-Viet war platform
71 Apr 26- 50,000 demonstrators (Vets?) in Washington D.C. set
up "Algonquin Peace City" (in West Potomac Park),
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"] M 3-5 1,200 arrested - final total 12,614
(record) May Amtrak starts operations (182 trains to
service 300 cities) May England's former prime minister
Harold Wilson says LBJ could have ended the Viet
war in Feb 67 May 4 Dollar crisis starts in Europe, as
five currencies are freed from parity with US dol-
lar May 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 con-
tempt charges May 13 "13 Black Panthers acquitted" (is
this the same?) May 15 Second anniversary of People's Park
demo, "instigated" by Daily Cal, leads to Daily Cal
moving off U.C. Berkeley campus May 25 Bobby Seale & Eric-
ka Huggins case dismissed (same as second?) May Philip
& Daniel Berrigan indicted for "conspiracy to kid-
nap" a high govt official ie. the Pres. 71 May Gaskin's
caravan arrives in Tennessee May The Last Whole Earth
Catalog May French left joins Larzac farmers in protest
against French government's planned expansion of
military base May Life: Rosie Grier does needlework
May Airlines start super cheap flights to Europe
1971 June
Demise
of Whole Earth Catalog party June 10 Mexico student upris-
ings June 11 Alcatraz Indians ousted J 13-15 Pentagon
Papers, secret Pentagon history of the Vietnam war,
copied by Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, ap-
pears in the New York Times June American vets start ad-
mitting to US atrocities in Viet US starts disman-
tling biological arsenal huh? June Nixon announces
he will visit China summer Danish rock fest, Amsterdam
scene summer French secretly explode hydrogen bomb in the
South Pacific July 3 Jim Morrison, 27, dies in Paris
Aug 1 Concert for Bangla Desh: Harrison, Clapton, Leon
Russell, Ringo + Dylan, Ravi Shankar (Madison
Square Garden) 71? Aug Pir Vilayat sufi retreat at
Chamonix, France (?first?) Aug 6 Huey Newton's second
manslaughter trial ends in mistrial Aug Marijuana bust
on The Farm - Gasking takes responsibility Aug Camden
28 raid draft board in Camden, New Jersey Aug 13 John Len-
non & Yoko Ono check in to St. Regis Hotel, NY Aug 15 Nix-
on declares 90-day wage/price freeze & takes US off
the gold standard Aug 18 Shootout Jackson, Miss: hdqs of
Republic of North Africa Aug 21 George Jackson (29) killed
during San Quentin escape attempt, while about to
face another trial on charges of murdering a white
guard Aug 31 Stephen Bingham, 29, lawyer to Jackson,
charged with smuggling weapons into prison
fall when? Life: high school kids concerned about secu-
rity & order (Sara Davidson) 71 Sept Attica
Federal Prison: 5 day revolt ends with 1000 state &
local police & prison guards storming the prison,
41 prisoners? dead 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 Oct Last LOOK
Mag Oct Follow-up to 68 Kerner Commission report says
if present trends continue in inner-city racial
problems, "most cities by 1980 will be prepon-
derantly black & brown, & totally bankrupt" Oct Huey
Newton returns to US to begin a new trial Oct 16 E Cleaver
press conference in Algiers to announce his return
to U.S. (sez Ringolevio) 71 Oct 16 H. Rap Brown, Pres SNCC
captured after black bar hold-up, NY (with 3 St.
Louis black men including Richard Moore & Eddie
Josephs) after 17 mos fugitive (since May 70) Oct drive
to enroll 25 million new voters is getting 5 new
Democrats to 2 new Repubs, influencing local
elections; college towns get uptight Oct
29 Duane Allman killed riding motorcycle Nov 2 18 to
20 year olds vote first time (but which election
would this be???) Nov 5 UN votes to seat (Red) China
(also seen as Oct 25) Ed Muskie, Dem. running for
Pres. Nov 13 Mariner 9 in orbit around Mars
Nov Larzac, Fr: 6,000 march to protest expansion of
NATO base Nov US pulling out of Vietnam
(Nov. 11: 188,300 US soldiers left)
under Nixon's "Vietnamization" withdrawal program
Dec 2 Dollar dives in reaction to reports that Nixon is
considering devaluation (326.76 yen; 3.289 Deutsche
marks) Dec 3 War breaks out in Bangladesh Dec
11 Third retrial of Huey Newton ends in mistrial Dec
14 Detective Frank Serpico tells Knapp Commission
of widespread police corruption in NY D 17-
18 Dollar devalued 8.57% Dec 26 15 Viet Vets sit-in in-
side Statue of Liberty to protest bombing Dec 28 80+ Viet
Vets arrested Lincoln Memorial, trying to block en-
trance with a human chain
Greenpeace formed, Vancouver, Canada
Use of DES discontinued after 7 cases of a rare
cancer found among women at one Boston hospital
(20,000 -> 100,000 women a year were prescribed DES
for prevention of miscarriage between 1960 and
1970)
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 Han-
cock *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) 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) Walka-
bout (Nicolas Roeg) ?King of Hearts re-release (is
this when?) El Topo (Alexandro Jodorowsky)
Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera "worldwide suc-
cess" (The Exorcist)
Michael Harrington: The Other America
focuses awareness on continuing US poverty
Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch (US publication)
Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe
Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship
Earth (I have this as 69) 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 East West Journal, Brook-
line, 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 atmos-
pheric testing in France Gray Panthers founded
1972
Federal
Coastal Zone Management Act passed Airlines re-
quired to screen passengers & their luggage to
prevent hijackings Over 300,000 black Mississippi-
ans, 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 pub-
lic, see earlier) Erewhon natural foods opens re-
tail and wholesale operations on West Coast
Venturi & Brown: Learning from Las Vegas
marks displacement of modern architectural movement
by post-modernism
Jan 10 2 black protestors in Baton Rouge killed in shoo-
tout with police during demo + 8 wounded (+ 2 white
deputies killed) Jan 17 New Jersey Supreme Court ends
death penalty Jan 25 Shirley Chisholm (Representative from
Brooklyn, NY) becomes first black female to seek
major party's Presidential nomination Feb
18 California Supreme Court ends death penalty
Feb Life: "Today's high school generation is interested
in security, stability, & comfort." 72 F 21-
28 Nixon visits China Feb 23 Angela Davis is released
(after 16 months) Feb 24 Daniel Berrigan released after 18
months of 3-year term (for Catonsville 9 xxx); goes
to Harrisburg where brother Phil is on trial
Feb 28- Angela Davis trial starts, San Jose
Mar Rodger McAfee, 33, dairy-farmer in Caruthers, Cal-
if., uses farm as collatoral to pay Angela Davis's
bail Mar Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passes Congress
(by yr end, only 22 states have ratified)
Mar? Raymond Yellow Thunder, Sioux, killed, Nebraska
Mar 22 13-member National Commission on Marijuana & Drug
Abuse recommends legalization of marijuana Mar
27 Soledad Brothers acquitted Mar 30 North Vietnamese
troops go south through the DMZ into So Vietnam
Apr? Mar y Sol rock fest Puerto Rico 30,000
Apr Demonstrators in Harrisburg, Pa. support Phil Ber-
rigan and six co-defendents; Apr 5 Harris-
burg 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 Apr 15 Nixon & Canada
P.M. Pierre Trudeau sign pact to clean up Great
Lakes Apr Heavy US bombing of North Vietnamese entering
So Viet A 15-28 New wave of antiwar protests on campuses &
near military & defense-industry installations -
100s of arrests across U.S. May? First? Mother Earth
News (recheck & add to lista) May 1 Quang Tri captured by
North Vietnam May 2 J. Edgar Hoover dies (after 48 yrs as
only Director of FBI) May Nixon talks in Moscow, signs
landmark nuclear arms pact May 8 bombing of Hanoi &
Haiphong (Harbor?) May Univ of Michigan protest against
ROTC and protests on dozens of US campuses against
the renewed bombing of N Viet i.e. Colombia May
11 District/Fed Appeals Court overturns Chicago Seven
(& 2 attorneys)'s contempt sentences
& orders trials on Hoffman's citations May
15 George Wallace shot, Wash D.C. & paralyzed,
drops out of presidential race May 18 Phil
Berrigan back to jail (Danbury) to complete 6 year
term for destruction of draft records in Baltimore
& Catonsville, Md. May when? Retreat in
Vietnam Davis: protestors block train carrying mil-
itary supplies May 21 Catholic Lithuanian youth immolates
self -> week of uprisings vs Soviet troops June
4 Angela Davis acquitted (13 week trial) June 14 EPA
bans DDT 1972 June
17 Five
men caught breaking into the Watergate Hotel Demo-
cratic campaign headquarters: director of security
for CREEP + 4 others ?with electronic eavesdrop
equipment June 23 Life: photos of S. Viet children running
from napalm June Expo '72 evangelist week-long rally in
Texas 80,000 Jl 1-4 First Rainbow Gathering, Strawberry
Lake, Colorado Aug Nixon says investigation by White
House counsel John Dean revealed no administration
officials involved in Watergate break-in
Aug Democratic convention held in Miami due to threat
of demonstrations in San Diego Aug 11 Last
U.S. military unit in Vietnam withdrawn Aug 12 B-52s
heaviest bombing of N Viet Sept 5 Arabs kill Israeli ath-
letes at Munich Olympics Oct Nixon & Gromyko sign arms
limitation treaty Oct Kissinger: "Peace is at hand" in
Vietnam US negotiating a settlement that would
withdraw Amer troops but leave revolutionary
troops, until set-up of a newly-elected government;
Saigon government refuses to agree Oct
18 Congress passes the Clean Water Act over Nixon's veto
Nov 2 500 AmerInds sit-in at BIA hdqs, Wash
(Trail of Broken Treaties) month? California
voters adopt coastal protection Nov 7 Mob figure Meyer
Lansky, 71, arrested Miami Nov 7 7th Circuit Court of Ap-
peals reverses convictions of last 5 of Chicago
Seven 72 Nov Nixon defeats McGovern (re-election)
(Also ran: Wallace, Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Edmund
Muskie, John Lindsay, Shirley Chisholm) [third
"People's Party"] 18-20 year olds first presiden-
tial vote (Nov 14 Stock Market: Dow Jones tops 1,000 first
time) Nov 16 Two black students killed by buckshot Baton
Rouge, La Southern Univ as police clearing demos
from admin bldg (Note: see Jan 10, 72) Nov
29 Phil Berrigan parolled Dec Nixon makes last at-
tempt to get North Vietnam to submit: 18 days of
"carpet" bombing of homes, hospitals, and civilians
of Hanoi & Haiphong through Christmas; first B-52
pilots refuse to fly missions Dec 29 last Life Magazine
after 36 years) (when did People Mag start?)
Dec 30 Nixon orders end to bombing
1972
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Exile on Main St and sum-
mer tour Eric Clapton with Derek & the Dominoes
McCartney touring with Wings *David
Bowie: Ziggy Stardust Glitter Rock - New York
*Lou Reed (from Velvet Underground): first solo
*Blue Oyster Cult (Heavy Metal) *Uri-
ah 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
Curtis Mayfield Don McLean: American
Pie Bette Midler Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band with country music stars: Will the Circle
Be Unbroken The Godfather (Coppola)
(first time regular movie prices are raised to over
4 dollars) Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci)
Play It Again, Sam & Everything ... Sex - Woody Al-
len Brother Sun, Sister Moon (St. Francis of As-
sisi) Jodorowsky working on The Holy Mountain
Grease "50s revival" Godspell
Deliverance Fritz the Cat
Deep Throat (seized Aug 18, ruled obscene Mar 73)
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
The Foxfire Book published, a compilation of re-
prints from quarterly Foxfire magazine, a
teenage staff's reports on dying folk customs
and arts of the Georgia Appalachians
Joan Baez takes a year off to volunteer for Amnesty
Intl 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 gym-
nast? Burt Reynolds "first" nude male portrait in
Cosmopolitan
1973
Water-
gate investigation continues "Baby Bust" (birth
rate drop) First time more woman than men in col-
lege (50.3%) Mississippi leads the south with 145
elected black officeholder (tho only 1 black leg-
islative representative) when? Endangered Species Act
Arab-Israeli war followed by Arab oil embargo & en-
ergy crunch, gas lines, & the go ahead to drill for
oil in Alaska Alaska Pipeline built 73-75
Hoedads of Oregon formed Chipko move-
ment starts in Himalayas Last year of draft (ended
June 30), army becomes volunteer ?Maharaj Ji event
at Houston Astrodome Pig By The Tail, first Ameri-
can charcuterie, opens in Berkeley -> California
Cuisine movement when? Hayden marries Fonda
when? Alan Watts dies Rod Hackney, young
architect writing PhD at Manchester University, who
had organized neighbors in Macclesfield to oppose
area's demolition, gets improvement grants from
town council for 34 of houses - in 1975 wins Good
Design in Housing Award from U.K. Dept of the En-
vironment
Jan 100,000 demonstrate at Nixon's inaugural Jan
7 Sniper shoots 6 from atop Johnson's Motor Lodge, New Orle-
ans Jan 11 Nixon ends 17 month wage-price controls Jan
22 Supreme Court: Roe vs. Wade strikes down ex-
isting state anti-abortion laws Jan 22 LBJ dies in Texas
Jan 23 Nixon announces all American troops to be out of
Vietnam in 60 days 73 Jan 27 Vietnam ceasefire
agreement with US (Paris) (the same agreement as
was drafted the previous October) (23,000 American
troops still left in Vietnam) and announcement of?
draft end 3 million Americans are enlisted in the
military 55,000 have died in the Vietnam war
Great Exp: 58,000 dead / 153,000 wounded
/ 35,000 widows & orphans created
275,000 Americans experience a death in their fami-
ly 1.4 million saw someone in their family wounded
6.5 million served in armed forces, 1 mill+ saw
combat Jan 30 James W. McCord & G. Gordon Liddy of Nixon's
re-election committee, found guilty of Watergate
burglary & wiretap attempt Feb 12 Second dollar devalua-
tion in 14 months - 10% Feb 14 Nixon: floating exchange
rate early Stock Market starts drop F 16-22 Student
uprisings in Greece 73 Feb 28 250 AmerInds (AIM) occupy
Wounded Knee (to May 8) early Custer, South Dakota AIM
courthouse protest Mr 1-19 Dollar crisis in Europe Mar
6 Nixon: gas & oil price controls Mar 23 Judge Sirica
reveals letter from McCord saying he & others were
pressured to plead guilty & commit perjury to avoid
implicating others in Watergate Mar 29 Nixon
declares meat price controls to stave off
housewives meat boycott set to start April 1
Mar 29 Last American troops withdrawn from Vietnam Mar
29 H. Rapp Brown (+ 3 others?) convicted for Oct. 16,71 rob-
bery 73 A 16-17 US bombs Laos Apr 30 Nixon accepts
resignation of H.R. Haldeman & John Ehrlichman &
fires John Dean May 10 John Mitchell & Maurice Stans,
former Nixon Cabinet members, & financier Robert
Vesco indicated for Vesco's illegal 200,000 dollar
contribution to Nixon campaign May 11 Daniel Ellsberg
charges dropped May 15 Bobby Seale's campaign for Oakland
mayor ends in defeat May 20 17 of Camden 28 found not
guilty (of destroying draft files) May 29 Tom? Bradley
elected in Los Angeles (first black mayor) 1973 Jn 25-
29 John
Dean testifies in front of Senate Select Committee,
indicting himself, Nixon, Ehrlichman, Mitchell &
others, & revealing the use of "hush money" and an
"enemies list" Jn 13 Nixon declares 60 day retail price
freeze July 16 Nixon's secret recording system is exposed
July 26 Nixon defies prosecutors' subpoenas of his tapes &
appeals his case until October 19 Aug 15 US
bombing of Cambodia ends Aug 31 Gainsville 8 (veterans)
acquitted Apr- Sept: ROTC unable to meet quota of off-
icers for six months in a row Sept Chile
coup overthrows Salvador Allende Sept 11 Allende
killed
Sept Jim Croce dies Sept Lennon to LA with May
Pang & Spector sessions Oct Oil talks fail & various
OPEC countries cut off oil deliveries to other
countries, including U.S., causing shortages (to
March 74) Oct retrial of Chicago 7 on contempt charges;
of 159 charges, only 13 upheld - ?all released?
Oct 10 Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President Oct
20 "Saturday Night Massacre": Nixon fires special prosecutor
Archibald Cox. Attorney General Elliot Richardson &
Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resign.
Oct 23 Eight impeachment resolutions introduced in the
House Nov 3 Froines & Weiner of Chicago Seven acquitted
of contempt charges. Nov 7 Congress finally (after 9 at-
tempts) passes War Powers legislation, over Nixon's
veto - limits President's power to commit armed
forces to hostilities abroad without Congressional
approval Nov 10 Stock Market drops 24.4 points Nov
16 Nixon signs bill to build Alaska pipeline Nov
19 Stock Market drops 28.67 points Nov 21 Inexplicable
18 1/2 minute gap discovered in subpoened tape Nov
26 Stock Market drops 29.05 points, to lowest in 11 years
(since May 28, 62 JFK confrontation with steel in-
dustry) Nov 30 OPEC quadruples oil prices
(?was 2 dollars/barrel) ?so 8 dollars/barrel?
Dec 4 Dellinger, Rubin, & Hoffman of Chicago Seven, and
their attorney William Kunstler, found guilty of
contempt charges levied at them by Judge Hoffman,
but given no further sentence.
Davis, Hayden, and attorney Leonard Weinglass
acquitted of contempt charges. Dec 31 6-
month oil embargo starts, recession
1973
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Goat's Head Soup
Dylan: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Lennon: Mind Games Harrison: Living
in the Material World McCartney: Band on the Run
Who: Quadrophenia (the record); movie 78
*ZZ Top (Heavy Metal) *Genesis
*Lynyrd Skynyrd *Poco (w Richie Furay
& Jim Messina from Buffalo Springfield) The Harder
They Come with Jimmy Cliff *Springsteen: first
Tom Waits: first Muldaur
Bergman: Cries & Whispers
& Scenes From a Marriage The
Last Detail (wasn't this the Nicholson one?) The
Paper Chase American Graffiti (The
Exorcist) (Sat Night Livers at the Village Gate)
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
(Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon)
Small Is Beautiful (Economics as if People Mat-
tered) - E. F. Schumacher Cut-
ting Through Spiritual Materialism - Chogyam Trungpa
The Well Body Book - Hal Bennett The
Joy of Sex - ? Handmade Houses (A Guide to the
Woodbutcher's Art) - Boericke & Shapiro
Levi's Denim contest (Mother Earth's
Hassle-Free Indoor Plant Book - Lynn & Joel
Rapp) Mother Earth News started?
Last year of the draft Watergate in-
vestigations Dungeons & Dragons getting popular
1974
Inf-
lation speeds up but ?unemployment starts = Great
Stagflation of 1973-75 (U.S.) Worldwide Stagflation
of 1974-76 Senate Watergate hearings
First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed
Pinochet rule starts "Boldt" deci-
sion, Washington state: Warm Springs, Yakima, Uma-
tilla & Nez Perce tribes entitled to take up to half
salmon & steelhead runs from the Columbia River
based on 1855 treaty First "Witkars"
(white cars for free use within the city) put into
use in Amsterdam Abbie Hoffman (facing cocaine
charge) goes undrgrd Joanne Little accused of murd-
er of killing jailer (in self-defense against rape)
(acquitted Aug 15, 75) ?Portugal coup ends W.
Europe's oldest dictatorship Kissinger's "shuttle
diplomacy" Garrison Keillor? starts Prairie Home
Companion Gas shortages get worse through Mar 19
Dalkon shield sales end Briarpatch
Network, informal organization of small businesses
practicing openness, honesty, service, and sharing,
founded Nairopa Institute, Boulder, Colorado,
founded
Jan 30 Dylan at Mad Sq Gdn - starts first tour in 8 years
Feb 4 Patty Hearst, 19, kidnapped by the SLA
Mar Pentagon requests additional $474 million for
Saigon military aid; Congress (House) denies fund-
ing request for the first time since the 1964 Ton-
kin Gulf resolution Apr 1 Jane Fonda arrives in Vietnam
on second visit Apr 15 Patty Hearst & 8 others rob SF bank
May Mohawks establish Ganienkah settlement in
Adirondack Mountains Park, NY 74 June Nature
publishes Sherwood Rowlands of U.C. Irvine's
pioneer research on depletion of the ozone layer
July 30 Watergate: House Judiciary Committee adopts
three articles of impeachment July 30 Water-
gate: Supreme Court upholds subpoena on Nixon tapes.
Nixon turns them over July 30 & Aug 5.
Aug Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics founded
in Boulder by Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman Aug
5 Watergate: Tape transcripts indicate Nixon impeded
the investigation Aug 8&9 Nixon resigns, Ford
sworn in ?Springstein first played the Roxy?
Sept Ford grants amnesty to draft evaders
(Sept Green Revolution plan announced) Sept 16 US
Dist Ct dismisses all charges against Banks & Means
for Wounded Knee takeover (Oct WE Epilog)
Oct US airlift of military supplies to Cambodia's
Lon Nol regime suspended until March Oct
7 John Lennon finally given legal status to stay
in the US (after 3 year legal battle)
Nov Jerry Brown elected Gov of Calif (1974-1982) N
5-16 World Food Conference, Rome (Lappe?) Nov 13 Karen
Silkwood, investigating Kerr-McGee xxx, killed in
controversial auto accident Nov 20 US files anti-trust
suit against AT&T Nov 21 Congress overrides Ford's veto to
pass the Freedom of Information Act
1974
MUSIC
/ CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Only Rock & Roll
*Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark &
Miles of Aisles Lennon: Walls & Bridges
Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Blvd (August)
*Queen (Heavy Metal) *Gentle Giant
*Electric Light Orchestra *Germany:
Tangerine Dream *Toots & The Maytals: first
Maria Muldaur Dylan: Planet Waves &
Blood on the Tracks (which was first?) 74-75 Rol-
ling Thunder Revue tour
TV: (Kojak) Chinatown
(Monty Python & the Holy Grail) Lenny
(w Dustin Hoffman) Equus Wim Wenders:
Alice in the Cities The Conversation (Coppola)
is this the master plot one? no (The Sting)
Robert Pirsig: Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Repair
Carlos Castaneda: Tales of Power The
Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuin The Power Broker -
Robert Caro Spiritual Community Guide
A Pilgrim's Guide to Planet Earth The
Connection Native Funk & Flash - Jacopetti
How to Grow More Vegetables . . . - J Jeavons
The Gardener's Catalogue Country Fur-
niture Gary Snyder - Turtle Island
Rolling Thunder - Doug Boyd New Age
Journal founded by East West Journal editor
Robert Hargrove, advertising director Eric
Utne, and other staff CoEvolution Quarterly
All the President's Men (the book)
Fear of Flying Streak-
ing (yes) Answering machines Digital
watches People Magazine started (Feb)
Isle of Calif mural behind SaMo post office (LA
Fine Arts Squad) Farallones Institute founded
1975
Inf-
lation + Highest unemployment since the thirties
(Whip Inflation Now - according to Washington mag)
Also high interest rates Also ?in-
surance rates? triple draft registration is
suspended Sen Frank Church launches investigation
which reveals CIA conducted illegal surveillance of
American citizens & plotted to assassinate foreign
leaders i.e. Castro Sam Giancana, Mafia chieftain,
murdered in his Chicago home, following reports of
his involvement in CIA Castro plot Hoffa disappears
Former United Mine Workers pres Tony Boyle starts
jail sentence for ordering murder of union opponent
Joseph Yablonski, wife & daughter
Calif passes Agricultural Labor Relations Act
(grants farm workers right to collective bargain-
ing, establishes a minimum wage, & abolishes child
labor in the fields) New York City
almost goes bankrupt (75-76) Tom Donahue, founder
of progressive? radio, dies Lennon goes into seclu-
sion for five years Bunny Wailer goes into seclu-
sion for 7 1/2 Z Budapest arrested for tarot read-
ing (9 years to Supreme Court win)
Rolling Thunder Revue (into Jan at least)
Frances Moore Lappe & Joseph Collins start IFDP
Airlines start to be deregulated -> cheaper fares
Franco dies (Spain) (Nov 20) - 36 years dictator
Dictatorship ends in Greece (74? 75?)
?World wide famines Architect Frank
Gehry creates second "deconstructivist" style house
(LA?); Netherlands designers Koolhaas and Zenghelis
also do first deconstructivist buildings
Jan 1 Menominee Indians seize unused Gresham, Wisconsin
Roman Catholic novitiate (to Feb 4, when church
promises to deed it to them for a tribal hospital)
Jan Vondel Park, Amsterdam closed to camping Jan
7 Major auto producers announce rebates Apr 17 Khmer
Rouge take over Cambodia (after 5 year war) (When
does slaughter start) Apr 25 Moderates (Socialists & Popu-
lar Democrats) win the first free elections in Por-
tugal in over 50 years A 30-My "Fall of Saigon": North
Vietnamese troops enter Saigon May Pathet Lao begin
takeover of Laos May 1 Stock Market commissions deregu-
lated, starting Stock Market shake-out May
27 Alaska legalizes home use of marijuana
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