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RETHINKING THE SIXTIES

Program 08-08-24-A

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Forty years ago the streets of Chicago exploded as police clashed with anti-war protesters at the Democratic National Convention. It's one of the momentous events that defined the Sixties. Or is it? Some historians now say the rise of the conservative movement is what truly made history in the Sixties. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll dissect the Sixties - and talk with activist Tom Hayden.

SEGMENT 1:

The Democratic Convention in 1968 was eclipsed by the violence in Chicago between the police and the anti-war protesters. This hour, we look back at the legacy of the sixties: Tom Hayden, one of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society and later a State Assemblyman and Senator in California, talks with Steve Paulson. Also, Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Gil Halstead considers himself a veteran of the anti-war movement. He went to Vietnam for the third time to report on the 40th Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre and to sort out his own complex feelings about the War, and prepared this report.
Click HERE to see photos from Gil Halsted's visit to My Lai.

SEGMENT 2:

Suze Rotolo was Bob Dylan's inseparable companion in the early 60s'. She's now written a memoir called "A Freewheelin' Time. Anne Strainchamps talks with her about Dylan and the scene they shared. And we hear lots of Dylan's music.

SEGMENT 3:

We get a totally different take on the sixties from the next generation: TTBOOK producer and GenExer Charles Monroe Kane is tired of hearing Baby Boomers wax nostalgic and he tells us why. Also, Rick Perlstein is a historian who thinks the real story of the sixties is the rise of the modern conservative movement. His books include "Before the Storm" and "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America." Perlstein tells Jim Fleming that everything in the sixties seemed apocalyptic.

Chuck's Boomer Rant generated a lot of comment. We've created a Blog! If you want to join in, click HERE

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You can read a transcript HERE

CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 08-08-24-A.

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CDs:

Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner)
Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time (Broadway Books)

Websites:

• Click HERE to see photos from Gil Halsted's visit to My Lai

Music:

• After Hayden:
  Eric Clapton w/ “Hey Hey”
  On “Eric Clapton Unplugged”
  Reprise
• After Halsted:
  “Bai Trong Lay and/et Thet”
  On “Vietnam: Traditions of the South”
  International Music Council
• Bob Dylan songs in Rotolo:
  “Talking John Birch Society Paranoid Blues”
  “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”
  “Boots of Spanish Leather”
  “If You’ve Gotta Go, Go Now”
  “I Threw It All Away”
  “Desolation Row”
• Before and Monroe-Kane:
  Jimi Hendrix w/ “Star-Spangled Banner” (Live at Woodstock)
  Rage Against the Machine
  with Know Your Enemy
  

• After Perlstein:
  John Coltrane w/ “The Inch Worm”
  On “Coltrane”
  Impulse!

Distribution dates: week of 08/24/2008 - hour 1 click HERE for timings and cues

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