Volume 1: The years from 1946 through 1980. You lived it. You suffered through it. You enjoyed it, but does anyone really understand what we went through? Did you ever try to talk to your grandchildren about the Vietnam War? Do they understand that while the “Easy Bake Oven” was the hottest toy for the Christmas season of 1963: In China the Great Leap Forward was responsible for over 31 million deaths due to starvation and famine which remained mostly unknown to the western world.
The University of Alabama desegregated only after Governor George Wallace stepped aside when confronted by federally deployed National Guard troops.
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated June 12.
Martin Luther King's “I Have A Dream,” speech, August 28.
South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated November 2.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, November 22.
Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, November 24, on live TV.
This all took place the summer & fall of 1963! Did you even remember that all of this was going on while you were in front of the TV watching “Petticoat Junction” or “The Fugitive”?
