1960s Counter Culture
Decades TV Network. (2016, February 15). Hippies Change a Generation - Decades TV Network [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJgwGxY37OE&t=40s&ab_channel=DecadesTVNetwork
1960s Counter Culture
- Bacig, T. (2002). The Role of Drugs on the Popular Culture of the 1960's. Retrieved from https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/cst3010/drugs.html
Lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD helped make the sixties what it was.
The people who were questioning the system needed to find a new light to look upon things. - Nostalgia Central (2020). Drugs in the 60's. Retrieved from https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/fads/drugs-in-the-1960s/
t is generally believed that the first widespread, illegal use of drugs in the UK started with the extensive immigration of West Indians into Britain in the mid-50s. - Rothstein, E. (2008). A Mind-Altering Drug Altered a Culture as Well. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/arts/05conn.htmlWhen it comes to LSD, I have to confess: I inhaled. But I inhaled like so many other denizens of the 1960s and early ’70s, whether they actually took the drug or not. I inhaled because you couldn’t fail to inhale.
Anti War Protests 1960s
King Rose Archives. (2013, April 1). Anti Vietnam War Protest - [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk09F1fTs1E&ab_channel=KingRoseArchives
Anti War Protests
- Hurn, D. (n.d.) 50 Years On: The Anti-Vietnam War Protest in London. Retrieved from Magnum Photos https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/david-hurn-anti-vietnam-war-protest-london/#:~:text=50%20Years%20On%3A%20The%20Anti%2DVietnam%By 1968, a resistance movement against the Vietnam War, which began simmering on American college campuses in 1965, had boiled over into a global movement. On March 17, 1968, an estimated 10,000 people in London demonstrated against American action in Vietnam and Britain’s support for the United States.
- BBC. (2018). On This Day 1950 - 2005 17 March. Retrieved from http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/17/newsid_2818000/2818967.stmMore than 200 people have been arrested after thousands of demonstrators clashed in an anti-Vietnam war protest outside the United States embassy in London.
The Vietnam War - Links
- "Vietnam War." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 15 Feb. 2020. school-eb-com-au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/Vietnam-War/75317. Accessed 3 Jul. 2020.
Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Called the “American War” in Vietnam (or, in full, the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation”), the war was also part of a larger regional conflict (see Indochina wars) and a manifestation of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.
Vietnam War
Buss, J. Ewig, J. Morrison, S. (Producers). (2014). 'The War in Vietnam" [Television Series Episode]. In J Buss, J Ewig, S Morrison (Producers), The Sixties US:CNN
The Beatles
Clyde, J. (Producer). Smeaton, B. (Director). (2009). The Beatles on The Record [Television Broadcast]. UK:BBC
The Beatles Links
- Getback.thebeatles.com. (n.d.). The Beatles. Retrieved from https://www.thebeatles.com/It was 50 years ago today, on August 8, 1969, that the world’s most famous band stepped out from London’s EMI Recording Studios to stride, single-file, across the black and white stripes of Abbey Road’s nearby zebra crossing.
- "The Beatles." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2017. school-eb-com-au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/the-Beatles/13958. Accessed 3 Jul. 2020.The Beatles, formerly called the Quarrymen or the Silver Beatles, byname Fab Four, British musical quartet and a global cynosure for the hopes and dreams of a generation that came of age in the 1960s. The principal members were John Lennon (b. October 9, 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England—d. December 8, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.), Paul McCartney (in full Sir James Paul McCartney; b. June 18, 1942, Liverpool), George Harrison (b. February 25, 1943, Liverpool—d. November 29, 2001, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), and Ringo Starr (byname of Richard Starkey; b. July 7, 1940, Liverpool).