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Tue Jun-27-06 10:30 AM
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13. There were riots in Watts?

Why wasn't I informed?

Seriously, the Watts riots and the ones in New Jersey didn't make much of a blip on my radar (elementary, middle and high school 1964-76). Significant national events that I remember impinging on my juvenile consciousness were hippies and free love, protests against the Vietnam war, the 1968 election, the moon landing, the shootings at Kent State, and the end of draft and the Vietnam war moments before I would have had to register. Hell, I don't think I was even aware of what The Doobie Brothers' band name actually meant. Small town, you know.

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