The Sixties on PBS

[question everything]

Just watched the two hour program http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/ and if it will be repeated, please please watch it.

There are so many parallels to our times. Not so much the fights for civil rights, women rights and gay rights as the disconnect between the establishment and the people who actually are trying to live by the rules created by the administration.

Of course, the Sixties are the source of all evil to the RW and Pat Buchanan talks about it, and Bork. I often read this on the editorials of the Wall St Journal: this was when all rules and semblance of order broke, when people lost any shame, when everything went. Though I suspect that these editors were not yet born or can barely remember the Sixties. Certainly the Reagan administration tried to do everything to turn back the clock on the Sixties and on the New Deal. Yes, Reagan played a prominent role as Governor of California. And, yes, there is a footage of Kerry testifying in front of the Senate after returning from Vietnam.

I wonder, though about Bush. After all, he is the same age. Where was he during the Sixties, the late Sixties, to be exact, that started with Students taking over Columbia, and then in San Francisco State and, of course, 1968: the Tet Offense, the murders of MLK and of RFK, the Chicago convention and later Kent State, the Pentagon papers, Nixon and Watergate.

Really a required viewing.

(We watched CSI first and then switched to the second hour, but then PBS started it again, so watched the first hour last).