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Myth: the 1960's were about sex, drugs, and rock and roll baby in America.
Fact: The 1960's saw a conservative America that was in every way conservative. Young girls looked forward to marriage and children. Young boys were always boys but were taught that marriage and fidelity with one woman and children was the way to go. Drugs were something you got from the local drug store with or without a doctor's prescription. Elvis Presley, every bit a rock and roll star also gave the country his version of conservative rhythm and blues and southern gospel and his strong ties to his southern family values and duty to country demonstrated by his drafting into the army and his insistence to entering it as a regular soldier. America's most popular song artists were country and western singers and Broadway show stars. Singers like Andy Williams and crooners like Bobby Vinton had hit records at the top of the charts.
Myth: The country's colleges and universities were filled with young idealists who promoted social justice and human rights for the people and revolutionary change.
Fact: America's universities in America were institutions of higher learning which pursued knowledge and their students went there to learn to better serve themselves by higher paying employment in society once they graduated. The faculty staffs taught students how to think - not what to think and social justice ventures weren't anything close to a priority. The revolutionaries of the university set was festering in California at the time at Berkeley where some of the country's more violent movements passed through Berkeley's portals such as Tom Haden's Students For A Democratic Society and the leaders of the Black Panthers which would sweep across the continent to colleges like Columbia, Harvard and Yale. The leaders of the so called Berkeley "free speech movement" were actually opposed to free speech, capitalism, and democracy.
Myth: Leading sixties peaceniks preached love and peace and all the kids worshipped them and rejected their parents middle class values and followed their message.
Fact: The sixties peacenik leaders unabashedly celebrated Communism and violent crime.
Myth: Hollywood was a main player in the sixties with the counter culture revolution producing blockbuster films featuring sexually liberated feminists and anti hero males.
Fact: The most popular actor in the movies in the sixties was John Wayne and the most popular actress was Julie Andrews.
Myth: The Beatles crashed the American scene from England and changed everything with cool songs about drugs and revolution.
Fact: The Beatles came on the American scene in the sixties and gave the country rock and roll songs for and about love sick teenagers. Some of the Beatles most popular songs that rivaled or topped any revolutionary drug songs they performed were love ballads.
Fact: The 1960's saw a conservative America that was in every way conservative. Young girls looked forward to marriage and children. Young boys were always boys but were taught that marriage and fidelity with one woman and children was the way to go. Drugs were something you got from the local drug store with or without a doctor's prescription. Elvis Presley, every bit a rock and roll star also gave the country his version of conservative rhythm and blues and southern gospel and his strong ties to his southern family values and duty to country demonstrated by his drafting into the army and his insistence to entering it as a regular soldier. America's most popular song artists were country and western singers and Broadway show stars. Singers like Andy Williams and crooners like Bobby Vinton had hit records at the top of the charts.
Myth: The country's colleges and universities were filled with young idealists who promoted social justice and human rights for the people and revolutionary change.
Fact: America's universities in America were institutions of higher learning which pursued knowledge and their students went there to learn to better serve themselves by higher paying employment in society once they graduated. The faculty staffs taught students how to think - not what to think and social justice ventures weren't anything close to a priority. The revolutionaries of the university set was festering in California at the time at Berkeley where some of the country's more violent movements passed through Berkeley's portals such as Tom Haden's Students For A Democratic Society and the leaders of the Black Panthers which would sweep across the continent to colleges like Columbia, Harvard and Yale. The leaders of the so called Berkeley "free speech movement" were actually opposed to free speech, capitalism, and democracy.
Myth: Leading sixties peaceniks preached love and peace and all the kids worshipped them and rejected their parents middle class values and followed their message.
Fact: The sixties peacenik leaders unabashedly celebrated Communism and violent crime.
Myth: Hollywood was a main player in the sixties with the counter culture revolution producing blockbuster films featuring sexually liberated feminists and anti hero males.
Fact: The most popular actor in the movies in the sixties was John Wayne and the most popular actress was Julie Andrews.
Myth: The Beatles crashed the American scene from England and changed everything with cool songs about drugs and revolution.
Fact: The Beatles came on the American scene in the sixties and gave the country rock and roll songs for and about love sick teenagers. Some of the Beatles most popular songs that rivaled or topped any revolutionary drug songs they performed were love ballads.
