Don Wildman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Take us to that time.
What is going on in U.S.
and in the world?
It's interesting.
This is, you know, baby boom generation.
Roughly half of that population is in college at that time.
And, you know, after high school, the first major anti-war rally was in April 1965.
Twenty thousand people went to D.C.
and and they've continued ever since.
March of the Pentagon, October 1967.
There's a nationwide moratorium, October 1969.
The My Lai Massacre has happened in 1968, 16th of March.
Details were published in the New York Times in 1969.
I'm just sort of ratcheting up what's happening in the society of America, in the media especially.
Why does a bout of protest begin in May on Kent State campus?
It had become a way of American life and almost like, oh, here we go again kind of feeling.