1960 June 13 Newsweek: apathy of students - get this June Baez & Seeger sing at Newport Folk Festival, which is ended with a hootenanny summer? Holiday magazine: Kerouac summer Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village starts holding Monday night hootenannys summer Univ of Michigan Daily editor Tom Hayden, having read On the Road, hitchhikes to California & meets SLATE members in Berkeley summer Trailways & several southern department store chains desegregate their lunch counters mid- Sidney Cohen's survey of 5,000 individuals who had taken LSD 25,000 times concludes it is safe Aug 9 Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms in Cuernavaca fall back at U Mich, Hayden founds VOICE fall Leary returns to Harvard, secures a supply of psilocybin from Sandoz, & starts the Harvard Project; also makes contact with Huxley and his group: Gerald Heard (Huxley's friend from England's Bloomsbury group), Humphrey Osmond (English psychiatrist in Canada), Al Hubbard Oct 12 Khruschev bangs shoe on desk at the U.N. Oct 19 MLK & 35 students choose jail after arrest for sit-in requesting service at the snack bar of Atlanta's Rich's department store Oct 25 MLK, held over on old traffic ticket charges, is denied bail & sentenced to four months hard labor Oct 26 JFK calls Coretta King & RFK call helps MLK's release (& JFK p.r.) Nov Ike tries to cut US foreign military spending causing gold drain, warns against power of the "military-industrial complex" Nov US sends troops to Nicaragua & Guatemala Nov JFKennedy defeats Nixon with 40% margin among Negro voters in key states, who shifted from 40 to 70% Democratic since the 1956 election Dec Boynton vs. Virginia: Supreme Court prohibits segregation in waiting rooms & restaurants serving interstate bus passengers Dec 20 Look: The Explosive Generation - ed. George Leonard - get this Dec Birth control pills go on sale in the US [when were I.U.D.s?? - around 1962 also] when? Charles Van Doren is among 13 contestants on television show "21" arrested for perjury in testifying that answers to questions were not given them in advance when? The Place & The Co-Existence Bagel Shop close (Grant Ave in San Francisco's North Beach) Beatles first trip to Hamburg, Germany 8 musicians meet in Ireland to form the Ceoltoiri Chualann; 5 of them later form the Chieftains Congress investigates payola, Teamsters Union Nineteen new nations emerge in Africa France: Manifesto of the 121 calls on draftees to refuse to fight in the Algerian War, cosigners include Simone de Beauvoir & Jean Paul Sartre Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress Mai Britt Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Green Fields *Everly Bros: Cathy's Clown Drifters: Save the Last Dance for Me Hank Ballard: Finger Poppin' Time & original version of The Twist Chubby Checker, 19, records The Twist Joan Baez first album television sets: US 85 mill; Brit 10.5 mill; WGer 2 mill; Fr 1.5 mill TV: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, My Three Sons Jean Paul Belmondo first movie, Breathless (by Godard) becomes U.S. hit Hiroshima Mon Amour [recheck - have this earlier] Never on Sunday Exodus Big Deal on Madonna Street (Psycho: Hitchcock) Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais Paul Goodman: Growing Up Absurd Black Like Me: John Howard Griffin John Updike: Rabbit, Run Allen Watts: Beat Zen, Square Zen, & Zen Kerouac: Visions of Cody, The Scripture of Golden Eternity Ginsberg: Kaddish To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee John Barth: The Sotweed Factor Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing - A.S. Neill 1961 when? HUAC film: Operation Abolition depicting SLATE activities in Berkeley draws activists to Berkeley (Bomb shelters being built) 61 when? South Africa: African National Congress (ANC) banned (check) (see note Apr 60 about 11 African countries independence Apr 60 - Apr 61) Jan Bob Dylan, 19, shows up in Greenwich Village's The Wha?, and visits Woody Guthrie in the hospital Jan Atlanta civil rights demonstrations (Life: JFKennedy calls attention to Bomb Shelters) Feb 1 (First anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in): demos all across the south, including Nashville movie theater desegregation campaign (which sparks similar demos in 10 other cities); nine students arrested at lunch counter in Rock Hill, S. Car. choose to take 30 days hard labor on a road gang; the next week, four other students repeat the sit-in, also choose jail. when? (between Jan & May): Univ of Georgia: riots against admission of first two Negro students 61 Feb 18 Bertrand Russell, 89, & Committee of 100 lead march of 20,000 & sit-down of 5,000 anti-nuke outside U.K. Defense Ministry and is jailed for 7 days Mar (early) Richard Alpert takes psilocybin as part of the Harvard Project Mar JFKennedy initiates 17 billion dollar nuclear missile program, increases military aid to Indochina (=So Vietnam) & announces creation of the Peace Corps Apr 11 Dylan does first billed performance at Gerde's Folk City Apr 12 USSR: first man in space (Yuri Gagarin) 61 Apr 25 Bay of Pigs: 1400 Cubans trained in the U.S. attempt to invade Cuba & are defeated by forces led by Castro May JFKennedy calls for 12,000 new Marines, the training of new anti-guerilla units ("Special Forces"/"Green Berets") and tripling of funds for fallout shelters & other civil defense programs May 4 James Farmer & CORE leads Freedom Rides (biracial groups ride interstate buses & use station facilities to challenge non-?observance of 1957 & 1960 civil rights legislation May 14 first Freedom bus attacked & burned outside Anniston, Alabama & riders beaten (Dylan writes Ballad of Emmett Till) May 16 SNCC students replace CORE riders May 21 Mobs attack First Baptist Church, Montgomery May 25 First Amer in space: Alan Shepard (blast off May 5) May 25 Montgomery, Ala: violence breaks out Negro and white May 28 Amnesty International founded (by English lawyer Peter Benenson & friends) with notice in the London Observer and the Paris Le Monde June JFKennedy first summit with USSR's Nikita Khrushchev "diplomatic setback": K threatens to take over West Berlin June Nearly 200 more arrested & jailed (Montgomery, Alabama??) July 21 Second American in space: Grissom 61 Aug 7 Bob Moses (& SNCC) begins first voter registration school in Mississippi (McComb, Fayette County) Aug 13 East German border guards begin construction of Berlin Wall Aug 29 Bob Moses beaten while trying to register two voters in Liberty Sept Dylan plays Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village, gets first review (Times) Sept 17 U.K.: March & sit-down, Parliament Sq large numbers & many arrests (while Russell in jail) Sept 24 Herbert Lee, 52, local Negro leader & freedom school attendee, Fayette City, shot by State Rep. Hurst (check) Oct 4 Mass arrest of 3 SNCC members & 110 Negro high school students praying on McComb City Hall steps in protest of Lee's slaying & suspension of two Freedom Riders - ends SNCC voter registration project Oct The Twist is still the rage and Chubby Checker leaves for European tour (Oct 11 Hayden & Paul Potter beaten on visit to voter registration activities) Oct SLATE leads vigil against resumption of nuclear testing by US & USSR; 50,000 women around US demonstrate against the resumption Nov. 1 -> Women Strike for Peace Nov 1 Tennessee: state auctioneers selling off Highland (?Folk Center) Nov 1 Pushed through by the Kennedys, ICC rules against interstate segregation go into effect - demos throughout the south Nov 9 Brian Epstein first sees the Beatles at The Cavern, Liverpool Dec 9 U.K.: Committee of 100 (w Russell) demos at various U.S. air & nuc bases D 10-15 SNCC Freedom Rider test of ICC ruling in Albany, Georgia leads to five days of arrests of 469/500 students for marching around city hall. Some 350 choose to stay in jail as part of the Albany movement. Dec 11 First two U.S. Army helicopter units land in South Vietnam Dec 16 MLK arrested Albany, Georgia with some 250 more demonstrators D 23-30 Sat Eve Post: "Youth - The Good Generation" (in response to Look? 1961 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING The Twist -> #1 record for the second time (-> Watusi, Hully-Gully, Stop & Swim, Mashed Potato +) Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Moon River, Big Bad John, Hit the Road Jack, Little Sister, Barbara Ann, Runaround Sue, Where the Boys Are Ricky Nelson: Travelin Man The Dovells: Bristol Stomp Chris Kenner: I Like It Like That Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger Ramblin' Jack Elliot starts Judy Collins first album Breakfast At Tiffany's, West Side Story [rechck-have as earlier] Truffaut: Jules et Jim Kurosawa: Yojimbo Godard: A Woman Is a Woman (his 3rd feature) - also w Belmondo Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc: Pull My Daisy Salinger's Franny and Zooey published as a book Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name Eric Berne: Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy Carl Rogers: On Becoming A Person Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land John Lilly: Man and Dolphin Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities Miller's Tropic of Cancer finally legally published in US Harvard ?Student Union's first edition of Let's Go! Alan Watts speaking on campuses around US 1962 "the East Village, with blacks, comes into being ard Tompkins Sq western border: Cooper Square" - Hettie Jones when? Vanessa Redgrave (among others) speaks at Bertrand Russell's Committee of 100 anti-nuclear weapons demonstration at Air Ministry in London when? Cesar Chavez starts NFWA in Delano with his own savings for 300,000 migratory farmworkers when? Gideon case: all people accused of serious crimes have a right to be represented by counsel when? Amelia Newell opens her land at Gorda Mountain, Big Sur for the first open-land commune (at its peak in 1967, 200 people lived there; ended 1968) when? Herman Hesse dies, nearly unknown to U.S. readers Feb 7 First U.S. Army support companies arrive in Saigon F 16-17 Boston SANE & fledgling SDS hold first anti-nuclear march on Washington; 4000-8000 show up Feb 20 First Amer to orbit earth: John Glenn F? M? Baker v. Carr: one man/one vote (Mar? Harvard Psilocybin Project challenged) (meanwhile Leary has discovered LSD) Mar Bob Dylan: first album Mar? (14 months after JFK in office) military budget up 9 billion Mar Strategic Hamlet program started in Vietnam Apr (Dylan writes Blowin in the Wind) Apr 27 LA Negro uprising (according to Eyes on The Prize) Griffith Park - 200 youths vs police arresting one for horseplay on a merry-go-round 1962 Jn12- 16 Port Huron Statement (SDS) (summer: first doubts about LSD research start to surface) (35 Harvards meet at Hotel Catalina in Zihuatanejo) summer Neal Cassady visits Ken Kesey at Perry Lane, having read One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest summer Jamaica, Trinidad, & Tobaga become independent July 10 Martin Luther King & Abernathy choose to go to jail for their part in Dec. Albany demos. July 12 Unidentified Negro man (secretly sent by JFK) pays MLK's fine July 19 First tv picture crosses Atlantic ocean by Telstar satellite July 27 Martin Luther King back in jail (to Aug 10) Aug Ban the Bomb demos UN, London, Helsinki, Tokyo, Hiroshima Women's Strike for Peace (End the Arms Race, Not the Human Race) Aug 4 Sat eve: Marilyn Monroe dies at 36 (? of drug o.d.??) fall Leary founds International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) to promote LSD research & publish The Psychedelic Review; IFIF rents two houses in Newton as "Freedom House"s Sept SNCC voter registration drive leaders in Georgia sniped at & churches burned & Mississippi (Ruleville) Sept 30 -Oct 1 JFK calls out troops to allow James Meredith to become the first Negro admitted to U Miss (Dylan writes Oxford Town) (troops stay until late summer 1963, after Meredith has his degree) Oct 22 Vaughn Meader tapes The First Fami- ly album 1962 O 22- 28 JFK's Cuban Missile Blockade (after 10 months of CIA's Operation Mongoose) WORLD COMES CLOSEST EVER TO NU- CLEAR WAR (Dylan writes A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall) when? US- USSR sign Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (bans atmospheric tests) & Nuclear non-proliferation pact (after Oct 62) Nov Nixon loses for governor for California (to in- cumbent Pat Brown) Nov first (Berkeley) sit-in against racial discrimination at Mel's Drive-in, San Fran- cisco & demos around the country and the south Dec Mariner 2 sends photos of Venus 1962 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Let Me In, Wah-Watusi, Mashed Potato, He's a Rebel (Gene Pitney/Crystals), Lonely Tear Drops, Girl From Ipanema June 2: Isley Bros: Twist and Shout Twisting the Night Away *Everly Brothers: Crying in the Rain *Beach Boys: Surfin' & Surfin' Safari Dick Dale: Surfer's Choice Ian & Sylvia first record (from Canada) Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds TV: Beverly Hillbillies Fellini: Boc- caccio ?70 Lolita Vaughn Meader doing JFK improvisations Abraham Maslow: Toward a Psychology of Being Harrington: The Other America Kerouac: Big Sur Rachael Carson: Silent Spring Miller: Tropic of Capricorn Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Aldous Huxley: Island (utopian community) Alan Watts: The Joyous Cosmology ?Adelle Davis: Exploring Inner Space Euell Gibbons: Stalking the Wild Asparagus Esalen Institute founded Findhorn Foundation (Scotland) founded 1963 Jan Albama Gov. Wallace's "Segregation Forever" speech at inauguration Feb 20 Greenwood, Miss: SNCC Voter Registration headquar- ters & 4 Negro businesses burned Feb 28 Jim- my Travis, 20, Bob Moses & Randolph Blackwell, re- turning from V E Project meeting, shot at Mar shootings & burnings in Greenwood & arrests & Republicans in- troduce stronger civil rights legislation into Congress East Su (when?) SANE, NYC "Peace Walk" Apr 3 Birmingham: sit-ins & demos begun by SCLC & volunteers A 11 Birmingham, Alabama city officials (including Bull Connor) obtain injunction against any demonstra- tions A 12-20 Martin Luther King & Abernathy go to jail in Birmingham for marching in defiance of the injunc- tion May? Dylan tapes John Birch Society Blues for the Ed Sullivan tv show (censored) May 2 Birmingham: 958 children go to jail for marching May 3 Connor orders fire houses & dogs turned on children marching out of the 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham to keep them from marching out of the "Negro section" 1963 May 6 (Mon) Birmingham: 1000 children & adults arrested, making a total of about 2500 (Ella Baker, Dave Dellinger, James Forman, Dick Gregory, Guy & Candie Carawan, Joan Baez in Birmingham) [when? JFK "ordered Ala- bama National Guard placed under Federal control, used display of military force to impose deseg"] May 7 thousands of Negro children enter downtown "white" Birming- ham May 8 Buddhist uprisings against Diem start in Hue May 9? meetings between white & Negro leaders negotiate an end to much of Birmingham segregation May 11 (Sat) KKK rally just outside of Birmingham and bombing of A.D. King's home & Gaston Motel, followed by riot around the motel area May 16 sit-ins & marches throughout the south next 10 weeks: 758 demonstrations in 186 cities, 14,733 arrests in 11 southern states (throughout June & July) May Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (with Blowin in the Wind) Joan Baez and Bob Dylan sing at Monterey Folk Festival, and Baez starts introducing Dylan at her concerts when? Cooper makes 22 orbits May 28 Medgar Evers gets agreement of negotiations in Jackson which is then withdrawn; 4 students & professor harassed during sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter May 31 600 children arrested for marching [Jackson?? or Birmingham?] June 1 First Buddhist monk, Quang Duc (73) immolates self in Vietnam (June) Leary quits Harvard; Al- pert fired 1963 June Dylan's Blowin in the Wind in the top 10 June ?1 Saturday Review: They Split My Personality (negative on LSD) - get? June demonstrations & arrests - Tallahasee, North Caro- lina June 5 First Negro student enters University of Mis- sissippi law school (without incident) June 9 Arinell Ponder of SCLC & 5 students arrested & beaten for using white Trailways bathrooms, Winona, Miss. June 11 Cambridge, Md: 25 arrested outside courthouse; firehoses in Danville, Va send 48 of 65 demos to hospital June 11 Gov. George Wallace, trying to fulfill campaign promise to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to halt integration, is confronted by Alabama Na- tional Guard, placed under Federal control by JFKennedy, June 11 two Negro students quietly registered at University of Alabama June 11 JFKennedy tv speech promises Civil Rights bill, Southern Democrats vow to block June 12 Medgar Evers (NAACP Field Sec) shot dead, Jackson, Miss on arrival at his home (Dylan writes Only a Pawn in their Game) June 12 Buddhist monk Trich Quan Duc publicly immolates himself, Saigon summer Leary hosts Freedom House groups in Zihuatanejo, Mexico & is forced to move on to Dominica & then Antigua (ck Time mag) Jul (end) Newport Folk Festival: 37,000 attend, debut for many new folk musicians, including Dylan (Ag 3-4 picketers in Torrance, Calif and other places) 1963 Aug 28 MLK's I Have a Dream speech, Wash DC Civil Rights March 200,000 / 300,000 - 500,000 / 210,000 - 250,000+ (Baez, Odetta, Josh White, SNCC Freedom Singers, Peter, Paul & Mary, Dylan perform) Sept? negative pieces on Leary/Alpert firing appear in Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, Look (get?) mid-Sep Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and other Harvard alumni LSD-researchers move to the Hitchcock's estate in Millbrook, New York (+ The Psychedelic Exp going to printer) fall Time mag on IFIF - get? Sept Birmingham fights over school integration Sept 10 20 Negro children integrated into Birm- ingham schools Sept 13 Wallace announces candidacy for president 63 Sept 15 16th St. Baptist church in Birmingham bombed, killing four young Negro female Sunday School students (Addie Mae Collins 14, Denise McNair 11, Carol Robertson 14, Cynthia Wesley 11) Oct JFK signs first Atomic Test Ban Treaty (banned atmospheric tests? in space & beneath the sea) & first wheat sale to USSR Oct 13 Bea- tles at London Palladium shown on tv; media discov- ers Beatlemania Nov 1 Vietnam: Military junta overthrows and assassinates Diem Nov early: "Freedom Vote" 90,000 Mississippi Negroes "vote" (in parallel election organized by SNCC) for the first time Nov Playboy: Al- len Harrington's account of LSD session & Huxley's last piece on the psychedelic dream - get? Nov Leary's IFIF mutated into Castalia end JFK plans withdrawal/withdraws 1000 of 17,000 advisors in Vietnam, quietly opens a dialogue with Castro's Cuba, and pursues detente with the USSR (Hayden) Nov 22 JFKennedy assassinated, LBJohnson sworn in; also Aldous Huxley dies, on LSD Nov 16,000 troops in Vietnam Nov 24 LBJ signs national security memorandum stating US goal in Vietnam is helping the Saigon government to a mili- tary "victory" when? Nov? Oswald assassinated 1963 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Hello Muddah, The Singing Nun Guantanamara, If I Had a Hammer, Puff the Magic Dragon, ?Charlie off the MTA? There But For Fortune - Phil Ochs Chad Mitchell Trio (with John Denver) Beach Boys: Surfin' USA & Surfer Girl (with Little Deuce Coupe) Jan & Dean: Surf City Ventures: Surfing Chris Kenner: Land of 1000 Dances LIVERPOOL! Beatles: first album Tom Paxton: The Last Thing on My Mind (?album) Dave Van Ronk starts Judy Henske records three albums Buffy Sainte-Marie: It's My Way (1st album) w Universal Soldier *Freewheelin' Bob Dylan w Blowin in the Wind Bo Diddley first album Otis Redding first album Little Stevie Wonder (Bunny Wailer, Marley, Tosh start playing together) Fellini: Eight and a Half (Great Es- cape) Dr. Strangelove, directed by Kubrick Mary MacCarthy: The Group Book of the Hopi - Frank Waters Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time John Cage: A Year From Monday Vonne- gut: Cat's Cradle (ice 9) Leary +: The Psychedelic Experience (version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead/Bardo Thodol) height of the Mods and Rockers in UK (according to Quadrophenia) 1964 when? Indian fishermen fish-ins, Nisqually River, Washington when? Sup Ct affirms members of Native Amer Church use of peyote in religious ceremonies early Kesey moves to La Honda, Merry Pranksters form Jan LBJ state-of-the-union: declares war on poverty while cutting budget and uranium production when? Economic Opportunity Act: War on Poverty (creates community action agencies) Jan 11 Surgeon General's cigarette warning Jan Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin' Beatles: *I Want to Hold Your Hand -> #1 US Jan 23 24th Amendment el- iminates polling taxes Jan 30 New military junta takes over in South Vietnam Feb 9 Beatles on Ed Sullivan Feb 11 Beatles: Washington D.C. Feb (Dylan visits southern US & writes Chimes of Freedom) (Dylan & Baez at Berkeley Community Theater) Feb 25 Muhammed? Ali (Cassius Clay) beats Sonny Liston Mar 6 protest against Sheraton Palace Hotel's discrimination in hiring (SF) Bea- tles: Can't Buy Me Love, And I Love Her and filming A Hard Day's Night Mar After RFK investigation, Hoffa indicted on jury-tampering charges in 1962 mistrial for misuse of union pension funds Mar Malcolm X, silenced by Elijah Muhammed's Muslims, visits Africa Mar 21 Leary starts first week of solitary LSD spring Newsweek on Millbrook - get? 64 Apr Kitty Genovese, age, coming home from a night job in the early a.m., stabbed repeatedly and over an extended period of time, while 38 residents of Kew Gardens, a "respectable" New York neighborhood heard and witnessed but did not even call police Apr 23 Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl Apr 24 Crosses burned in 64 of Mississippi's 82 counties to prepare for Freedom Summer May very first LA Free Press at first? KPFK Renaissance Faire May Dylan's first visit to Eng- land, meets Beatles, Rolling Stones, Eric Burden of Animals (who is doing first "folk-rock" piece House of Rising Sun); turns Beatles on to marijuana 1964 old- est baby boomers reach 18, graduate high school June Lenny Bruce goes on trial in NYC June 19 Carol Doda dances in a Rudi Gernreich topless bathing suit in The Condor nightclub, North Beach June 19 200 college students leave Oxford, Ohio to join 1,000 total civil rights volunteers as part of Civil Rights "Freedom Summer" to register Negro voters June 21 Three civil rights activists (James Chaney (21), Andrew Goodman (20), Michael Schwerner (24)) killed on arrival in Mississippi by KKK June 6 Negro churches burned in Mississippi (21 more by September); 30 Negroes murdered January to Au- gust June 22 Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, still being smuggled into U.S. from Paris, finally ruled legal for distribution in U.S. summer SDS ERAP: 125 members or- ganizing the poor in the slums of nine cities summer Millbrook House LSD sessions when? Realist piece by Robert Anton Wilson - get? summer Saturday night "happenings" in Spui Square start in Amsterdam July 2 LBJ signs Civil Rights Act: public facil- ities opened to all July Kesey & Merry Pranksters' first Magic Bus trip (to NY) July 18 Negro uprising in Harlem July 20 Brooklyn Negro uprising July 22 Rochester Negro uprising July? Sun House first reappearance (Newport Folk Festival) Aug 2-4 U.S. navy destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin air action against North Vietnamese PT boats the torpedo boats & their bases. (???fix) Also new military junta takes over. Aug 2- 4 New Jersey Negro uprising Aug 7 Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin resolution (only Sen Ernest Gruening of Alaska & Wayne Morse of Oregon dissent) (19 years after bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki) & Seventh fleet sent to Vietnam Aug 11-14 New Jersey Negro uprising Aug 16-17 Chicago Negro uprising Aug 20 LBJ signs War on Poverty Bill is this "The Great Society" pro- gram? did this create VISTA? Head Start? Aug x Democratic convention refuses to seat more than two representatives from the Mississippi Freedom Demo- cratic Party 64 Aug Ken Kesey & his Merry Pranksters visit? Leary & Alpert at Millbrook Aug Dylan: Another Side of Bob Dylan (all love songs) Aug 23 Beatles Hollywood Bowl concert Aug Beatles: *Hard Day's Night released in US A 28-30 Philadelphia Negro uprising Ag-Sept Beatles first U.S. tour: 25 N. Am. cities fall Ralph Metzner, Harvard alumni of Leary's group, goes to India, contacts & studies with Lama Govinda (?The Way of the White Clouds) fall oldest baby boomers enter college Sept Selective Service calls up 27,500, more than in any month since 1953 Sept Wilderness Act becomes law (by 1988 adds 80 million acres to the 11 million acres currently in the wilderness system) Sept early: Clark Kerr bans all politicking outside UC Berk's main gate late: Kerr suspends 8 students for political activities Sept 27 Warren Commis- sion Report on JFK assasination released; says Oswald's was the only bullet Oct 1 UC Berkeley math grad student Jack Weinberg is arrested for setting up CORE information table in Sproul Plaza; police car is surrounded by demonstrating students for 32 hours; Free Speech Movement is formed Mario Savio; Baez Weinberg: "Don't trust anyone over thirty." when? Berkeley Barb starts Oct 14 Khrushchev deposed in U.S.S.R. -> Brezhnev Oct 16 China tests first atomic bomb, becoming fifth nuclear power Oct 26 Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan Nov Johnson defeats Goldwater Dec 2 Joan Baez sings on Sproul Hall steps Dec 2- 3 FSM overnight sit-in in Sproul Hall to protest discipline of four who took part in the October police car sit- in; 800 arrests Dec 4 900 students boycot classes Dec 7 U.C. Berk administration presentation at the Greek Theatre to 18,000; followed by strike by 9,000 of the 27,000 students & faculty resolution (824 to 115) supporting FSM Dec 10 MLK awarded Nobel Peace Prize Dec 11 Singer Sam Cooke dies of gunshot wounds, Los Angeles In 1964, California surpassed New York as most po- pulous state 1964 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Walk On Boy, We'll Sing in the Sunshine, Baby Love, King of the Road, A Spoon- ful of Sugar Jan & Dean: Ride the Wild Surf & Lit- tle Old Lady from Pasadena *from UK: Pacemakers, Herman's Hermits, Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde, Petula Clark (first hit: Downtown), The Kinks, Manfred Mann, The Hollies, Dave Clark Five: I Like It Like That) *The Rolling Stones first record & 12 x 5? Fred Neil first album Phil Ochs first album (w There But For Fortune?? see lista63)) *Dylan: The Times They are a Changin' *Another Side of Bob Dylan TV: Gomer Pyle, Gilligan's Island, U.N.C.L.E. Zorba the Greek the movie (when was the book?) Woman of the Dunes It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (people are basically mad, so there's no hope for the world) La Jette: Chris Marker (Fr) Herbert Marcuse: One Dimensional Man Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media Carl Jung: Man and His Symbols I Nev- er Promised You a Rose Garden: Hannah Green David Halberstam: The Making of a Quagmire op art Rudi Gernreich: topless bath- ing suit textured stockings 1965 Adri- an Cronauer broadcasting in Vietnam First DC-9 air- craft built Volkswagen starts American sales cam- paign "Think Small" Peace Corps returnees having trouble with "re-entry" when? Leary visits in India, re- turns late spring to find Millbrook in poor state, Alpert asked to leave Washington judge rules Puyallup tribe does not exist, and cannot fish on the Puyallup River Jan Time Mag says "generation of conformists" Jan 4 FSM holds first legal rally on Sproul Plaza ?Feb Byrds release single of Mr. Tambourine Man Feb Police raid Owsley's house in Berkeley Feb 8 U.S. starts bombing North Vietnam & begins using jet bombers inside South Vietnam for strikes against "VC" targets (`Operation Rolling Thunder') Feb MLK & 770 others arrested in Selma, Alabama for picketing county courthouse to end discrim voting rights Feb 21 Malcolm X shot and killed, Harlem auditorium Mar 6 "First Amer soldier officially sets foot on Viet battlefields" Mar 8-9 3,500 Marines land to protect Da Nang air base Mar Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home (all rock) with Mr. Tambourine Man 65 Bea- tles: Eight Days a Week hit Mar 3 Owsley starts making LSD: large quantities of acid available for the first time Mar 7 Selma, Alabama: police violence against march Mar 8 Sup Ct rules co s need not believe in ex- istence of a Supreme Being (Daniel Seeger case) (and June 15 Elliott Welsh II case) Mar 9? first attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery (turned back) Mar 16 Quaker Alice Herz, 82, immolates self in Detroit in protest of the Vietnam war Mar 16 Police break-up demonstration of 600 in Montgomery, Alabama Mar 17 1,600 demonstrate at Montgomery, Alabama courthouse Mar 18 Soviet cosmonauts float in space M 21-25 MLK: Alabama march (Selma to Montgomery capital 25,000) Mar 24 ?SDS organizes first Viet War teach-in: University of Michigan (all night) 500 expected, 3000 come Mar 28 MLK on tv calls for boycott of Alabama Dylan to England (tour filmed for Don't Look Back) Mar Sen. Frank Church & Geo McGo- vern come out against the war Apr 2 Kesey busted for marijuana first time Apr 5 Alpert & Metzner at Vanguard Theater, Greenwich Village Apr 17 SDS leads first an- tiVietwar march in Washington: 25,000 `March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam' I.F. Stone & Sen. Ernest Gruening of Alaska speak Phil Ochs, Judy Collins, Baez / 20,000 (Bd & Pup) April 25,000 American troops in Vietnam (note: number of march- ers almost equal to number of troops) May 3 Drop City commune founded, ?in New Mexico? on Interstate Hwy 125 into Colorado May 6 First two Marine divisions arrive Vietnam 65 May Beatles: A Ticket to Ride hit May Berkeley: Vietnam Day & teach-ins at many other colleges May 17 National Teach-in broadcast over radio from Wash. D.C. May L.A. Free Press starts regu- lar publication (the Mime Troupe) Spring Albin House concerts May 26 Riverside County salmonella crisis causes new look at water supplies in the US 1965 June Red Dog Saloon, Charlatans at Virginia City First psychedlic light shows by Bill Ham First "Happen- ing": Wholly Communion, with Ginsberg, Ferlinghet- ti, Corso & English poets, Royal Albert Hall, Lon- don (June 11): Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone single released (and meets The Band) June 11 Queen awards Beatles the MBE June 12 Ky heads new military regime in South Vietnam (more on Ky) Summer Baez/Sandperl Insti- tute for the Study of Nonviolence (Carmel): first students Summer Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man hit Summer (Sept 8?) National Farm Workers Association joins Delano grape walkout by 800 AFL-CIO pickers; within a week, 2000 pickers (led by Chavez) strike in two counties (33 growers, one quarter of the table grape industry) (by 65: 1700 member fami- lies) July First Provo manifesto appears in Amsterdam July 25 Dylan goes rock and gets booed at Newport Folk Fest (backed up by Paul Butterfield Blues Band) (and wearing London mod) July Natl Coord Committee to End the War in Vietnam formed summer attempts to stop troop trains in Berkeley & Emeryville summer SDS starts ERAP in West Oakland 65 Aug Help! released Aug Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited Aug Eve of Destruction released, goes to top of charts within 5 weeks (fastest rising song in rock history) ("you're old enough to kill, but not for votin'") Aug Joan Baez's first hit: There But For Fortune Aug Kesey meets Hunter Thompson who introduces the Hells Angels to the Merry Pranksters; Ginsberg & Alpert are at the party Aug 6 LBJ signs Voting Rights Act 65 A 11-16 Watts uprising Aug 13 Marty Balin opens Ma- trix: Jefferson Airplane Beatles at Shea Stadium: 55,000 screaming girls + Merry Prankster party at La Honda: Owsley meets Kesey Aug 26 Last day getting mar- ried could improve your draft status Aug 29 Beatles Holly- wood Bowl Aug 31 LBJ signs law amending Selective Service Act to make draft card burning a federal offense 65 fall start of mini-skirts in stores? fall Ballad of Green Berets tops charts Sept 2 Beatles Cow Palace Sept 5 SFEx writer Michael Fallon applies the term "hippie" to the SF counterculture in an article about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse where LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) & the Sexual Free- dom League meet, & hippie houses de- clares the Beat movement is alive in the Haight fall Millbrook house breaks up fall Brigette Bardot in Time and Life 65 Oct. 15 U.C. Berkeley Teach-in & march (Tele Ave) 14,000 Norman Thomas spoke?? Oct. 16 repeat march in Berkeley, to Oakland Army Base [15,000 - Bohemia book] (Vietnam Day Committee) & conflicts w police & Hell's Angels Catholic Worker David Miller burns draft card Oct. 16 Viet protests (teach-ins, marches) in 80 cities including Fifth Ave, NY 15-20,000; Ann Arbor; Madison; Boston; Detroit; Phil; Tokyo; London; Rome +) 100,000 people in nearly 1,000 cities (Hayden) Natl Coord Com to End the War in Viet Oct. 16 Family Dog's First Concert "A Tribute to Dr. Strange" at Longshoreman's Hall (ILWU), Fisherman's Wharf: Jefferson Airplane & Charlatans (with Dan Hicks) Oct 18 First draft card burning arrest (under new law): David Miller Che Guevara goes to Bolivia Nov Unsafe at Any Speed published (Ralph Nader) Nov 1 J.Edgar Hoover: war demos in US "represented a minority for the most part composed of halfway citizens who are neither morally, mentally, nor emotionally mature" 1965 Nov 2 (elec- tion day) Norman Morrison, 32 yr old Quaker, father of three, immolates self below Secretary of Defense McNamara's Pentagon window to protest Vietnam War Nov 6 Bill Graham's first: benefit to raise money for Mime Troupe, busted for performing in park without a permit (Airplane, Fugs, Warlocks, Committee, Fer- linghetti +++) Nov 9-10 Power Failure: NY & east coast Nov 9 Roger Allen La Porte, Catholic Worker, immolates self in front of UN Nov 22 Dylan marries Sara Lowndes & moves to Woodstock Nov 27 `March on Wash- ington for Peace in Vietnam' Wash, D.C. 15,000 (Life, Chron), 25,000 (Bd & Pupt), 30,000 (D.S.) SANE + Natl Coordg Committee of left wing orgs. Mar to Dec: Wm Frosch at Bellevue Psych Hosp, NY, treats 65 acid freak-outs Dec Selective Service calling up 40,200/month Dec 10 Bill Graham second benefit for Mime Troupe, at Fillmore (first time there) Fillmore & Geary - 3,500 Dec 15 Gemini 6 & 7 ren- dezvous in space D 21-J6 Tom Hayden (26), Lynd, Aptheker to Hanoi Dec 25 Leary stopped at the Mexican border & busted for mj Dec 27 Old leadership of SDS unseated & women hold a closed door workshop at the SDS convention 1965 Na- tional Welfare Rights Organization founded 3 books out on the New Left 1965 end: 184,000 American troops in Vietnam 1965 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING My Girl, I Got You Babe, Hang on Sloopy, Help Me Rhonda, Stop in the Name of Love, Woolly Bully R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - Otis Redding The Year of "Folk-Rock" Simon & Gar- funkel: Sounds of Silence *Donovan: Catch The Wind & Fairytale *Rolling Stones Now! & Out of Our Heads w Satisfaction & December's Child *Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home w Mr. Tambourine Man & Hwy 61 Revisited w Like A Rolling Stone *Beatles: We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper Rubber Soul w Yesterday *Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man & Turn! Turn! Turn! when was Eight Miles High with sitar *(Paul) Butterfield Blues Band *frm UK: Animals (w Eric Burdon): We Gotta Get Out of this Place *frm UK: Yardbirds (with Eric Clapton): For Your Love *frm UK: Them (with Van Morrison) Turtles Lovin Spoonful The Fugs in the Village (rock musi- cians with poets Ginsberg, Corso) The Knack - And How to Get It Fel- lini: Juliet of the Spirits Help! The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh (Forest Lawn) John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor listed under 1960 also Malcolm X Autobiography (published posthumously) (written by Alex Haley) Manchild in the Promised Land - Claude Brown Unsafe At Any Speed - Ralph Nader Light on Yoga - B.K.S. Iyengar Dune - Frank Herbert ?African Genesis George Leonard of Look Mag & Michael Murphy, found- er Esalen Institute, found Human Potential Movement pop art 1966 400- 1000 U.S. draftees flee to Canada Peace Corps peak ?enrollment: 16,000 Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announces "Project 100,000" to rehabili- tate and draft "rejects" James Brown's first ap- pearance before white audiences (at Madison Square Garden, NYC) Swami Satchidananda founds Integral Yoga Institute Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966 to late 1968-69 N.O.W. (National Organization of Wom- en) founded Freedom of Information Act 66 Model Cities Program passed by Congress (check) Jan 3 Ron & Jay Thelin open head shop on Haight Street: The Psychedelic Shop Jan 8 8,000 GIs attack Iron Triangle, after B-52 bombing strikes Jan 14 march on Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond, Negro pa- cifist, from Georgia House of Representatives, after his endorsement of SNCC statement criticial of US involvement in Viet; MLK spoke Jan 17 A US B-52 bomber collides with a tanker aircraft during mid-air refueling operation. Three 10-megaton H- bombs drop onto Palomares, Spain below; a fourth falls into the sea. Luckily, none of them explodes. The entire event is ?covered up. (Rough Guide: Spain p.173) Jan 20 Kesey busted again (with Mountain Girl) J 21-23 Stewart Brand's Trips Fest, Longshoreman's Hall, SF: first light show, Grateful Dead, 10,000 people Feb Kesey disappears (to Mexico) Feb 4 Bill Graham's first non-benefit show Feb 19 first Chet Helms concert at Fillmore (Airplane & Big Brother) Mar Time sez there's an acid epidemic get this? March SFEx front page: bust of 25 "beatnicks" from 408 Ashbury 66 Mar 10 Provos in Amsterdam smoke "bomb" royal wed- ding of Dutch Crown Princess to German Mar 11 Timothy Leary sentenced in Texas to 30 years for trying to cross into Mexico as a tourist with a small amount of marijuana; Leary appeals & gives press interviews March President of GM apologizes to Sen- ate subcommittee for investigating Nader's private life + car safety protests 66 Watts flares up again when? (early) all time DOW Jones high (995.15); drop starts (to end of year) Mar 25? Life: Photos of firing squads in South Vietnam M 25- 27 March, Fifth Ave, NYC - 25,000 anti-Viet + 7 U.S. & 7 foreign cities Est Sun Love-in Elysian Park??? (Amelia sez) CHECK THIS Est Sun 25-day, 250 mile NFWA march arrives Sacramento Volunteer picketing of groceries starts Life: NFWA becoming first effective fmwkrs union East Day after: youths riot at Glen Echo Amusement Park, Wash D.C. Apr FBI treats the press to its LSD file -> negative press on LSD Apr 7 Sandoz stops supplying LSD to researchers 66 Apr Life: Is USSR/China break starting? Vietnam: Buddhists pro- test dismissal of Buddhist Lt. Gen Thi from the government by South Vietnam Premier Ky 30 Missis- sippi Negroes build tent city under LBJ's window to protest housing conditions in Mississippi April Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me published, and Farina killed Brower & the Grand Canyon dams [more!] Discotheques going: The Trip, LA; The Cheetah, Broadway NY; Arthur, NY; The World, Garden City, NY; Le Bison, Chicago; The Lightworks - multiscreen light shows by Andy Warhol [ditto Look Nov 30: 50+] Life: teen-age bands form- ing everywhere with electric guitars and colorful names Apr 12 NY Stock Exchange anti-war leafletting Apr 14 75 demo outside NY Stock Exchange Ap 16 4,400 march NYC Ap 16 G. Gordon Liddy & FBI raid Millbrook & bust Leary for possession of mj April (end of) Helms to Avalon (Sutter & Van Ness) May Dylan: Blonde on Blonde May Beatles: Pa- perback Writer/Rain May 10 Vietnam: General Thi dismissed from government by Ky; Buddhist revolt starts May 15 10,000+ picket White House & rally at Wash Mon w 63,000 (SANE + 4 other organizations) M 20- 23 Buddhist & labor union demonstrations against Ky govt in Saigon May 26 Second day of Internatl Days of Protest: 20,000 Fifth Ave, NYC called by "National Coordi- nating Committee to End the War in Vietnam" May 29 Buddhist nun immolates self in Hue, the first of eleven immolations in next three? weeks June 15,000 hippies living in the Haight June Provos elect first representative to Amsterdam Mun- icipal Council J 1-2 White House Conf on Civil Rights with Roy Wilkins of NAACP; Whitney Young Jr of Natl Urban League; Floyd McKissick & James Farmer of CORE; Martin Luther King Jr of SCLC; Stokely Carmi- chael of SNCC ("We feel that integration is ir- relevant. We have got to go after political power."). June 3 Graduation protest at Amherst (McNamara honorable degree) June 6 James Meredith shot while march- ing alone thru Mississippi to encourage Negroes to register to vote June 7 MLK (SCLC), Floyd McKissick (CORE), Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) announce larger march on same route June 8 Graduation protest at NYU (McNamara honorable degree): 270 walk out June 9 NYTimes Sierra Club ad on Grand Canyon dams June 10 IRS tells Sierra Club it will lose its tax deductible status if it keeps taking such political stands June 12 Graduation protest at Brandeis (Goldberg honorable degree) June 13 Sup Ct: Miranda case: suspects entitled to be informed of their rights when arrested (right to remain silent, be told anything you say may be used against you, have a lawyer) 1966 J 13- 15 Confrontation between Amsterdam police & demonstrating construc- tion workers with Provo supporters, Dam Square June 21 March ends at Mississippi capital in Jackson, with 15,000, with Meredith, recovered, there to speak Summer Haight Ashbury: Shops opening, dances every week- end, HIP merchants, Diggers Morning Star Ranch, owned by Lou Gottlieb of the Limelighters, along with Ramon Sender, open the land (32 acres) to anyone who wants to live there LA: Sunset Strip scene Velvet Under- ground at The Trip June 24 Ky agrees to add ten civilians to his military directorate & announces elections for constitutional convention J 29-J5 US starts bombing ma- jor oil facilities in Hanoi & Haiphong harbor July (early) Beatles to Germany, Japan, Philippines J 1-4 CORE adopts Black Power concepts, Baltimore J 3-5 Omaha Negro uprising J 4-9 NAACP rejects Black Power concepts, LA J 12-15 Negro uprising in Chicago July 13 Eight Chicago nurses killed by Richard Speck J 15-22 Negro, Puerto Rican uprising Brooklyn July 16 SF: Negro off-duty policeman shooting of Negro armed robbery suspect followed by Hunters Pt demonstrations July 18 Negro uprising Jacksonville, Fla J 18-23 Negro upris- ing Cleveland July 24 McClure's "The Beard" busted at Fillmore J 28-29 White gangs invade Baltimore Negro dis- trict July 29 Dylan motorcycle accident ->15 mos convales- ence Aug 1 U of Texas sniper kills 16 & wounds 31 from observ. tower Aug 3 Lenny Bruce dead at 40 (Hollywood) Aug 5 4,000 whites confront MLK marching with 600 in Chi- cago Aug 6 (21st anniversary Hiroshima): anti-war demos: 5,000 Times Square NY + Phil, SF, Madison, Cleve- land, Denver, Minneapolis, LA, Pittsburgh, Boston, Atlanta, Niagara Falls Aug 9 (21st anniver- sary Nagasaki): 200 demo Dow, NY Aug Gemini 10 shoots pix of world surfaces HUAC hearings: Rubin in revo- lutionary outfit (Gitlin p. 233) Emmett Grogan, living near the Haight, joins Mime Troupe &, with Billy Landout, starts the Diggers, putting out the Digger Papers 66 Aug Jefferson Airplane first album released nationally Aug Youngbloods: Lets Get Together Aug Beatles: Revolver released Aug another Beatles tour: Beatlemania again with Bible Belt record burnings based on Lennon's remarks that "most young people are more interested in rock `n' roll than in religion . . . we're more popular than Jesus now" 66 Aug 29 Beatles: Candlestick Park, SF - last concert ever Inflation S 6-12 Negro uprisings in Atlanta; Carmichael arrested for "in- citing riot" alone with 105? others Sept 9 SF Oracle starts Sept 11 First Elections in South Vietnam Sept first Lunar Orbiter photo of Earth Vietnam Air War going on Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam formed George Harrison to India for 6 weeks to study sitar with Ravi Shankar Sept 15 Gemini 11 shoots pix of world surfaces Sept 19 Baez leads 160 Negro children to Mississippi elem school Sept late: Leary holds press conf NY Advtg Club announc- ing formation of a psychedelic religion - League for Spiritual Discovery ("Turn on, tune in, drop out") & starts nightly presentations at the Village Theater Sept 25 LA Free Press headline: The lesser of two evils is still an evil (explain) (?about Reagan?) Oct 6 LSD illegal - first big free concert in GGPk Panhandle (sev thous people at "Love Pageant Ral- ly") & Diggers started free food in Panhandle (to March 67) Oct DMZ Battle Oct Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton form Black Panthers of Oakland (met as student leaders at Merritt College, dropped out, & working as community organizers for the North Oakland Poverty Program, write 10-point platform & program. Stand-up comedian Seale becomes "Chair- man", Newton "Minister of Defense", start patrol- ling Oakland on weekend nights 66 Oct 19 Kesey, back from Mexico, arrested Oct 25 UCLA Teach-in Oct 31 Ken Kesey's Acid Test Graduation Nov 5 Walk for Love and Peace and Freedom: 10,000+ (NYC?) Ginsberg, Snyder, Krassner, Fugs (Mobilization) "first hippie style demo in NYC" Nov? Housewives revolt against soaring food prices LBJ trip to Cam Ranh Bay Nov 8 First Negro elected to Senate (Massachusetts) Nov CAFF demonstra- tions on Sunset Strip (over teen curfew) -> Byrds?: Look What's Happening There Nov Reagan elected gov of Calif (66-74) Lunar Orbiter II: photos of moon Dec 6 Rally, Madison Sq Garden: SANE & 36 supporting or- ganizations Floyd McKissick, I.F. Stone, Pete Seeger 100s of balloons with peace doves released from ceiling Dec 100 student leaders send letter to LBJ (covered in NYT front page) warning that unless the government changes its war policy, more & more of its young men will choose jail rather than bare arms Dec Cream's first album: Fresh Cream (Eric Clapton from John Mayall, Jack Bruce from Manfred Mann, and drummer Ginger Baker from Graham Bond's Organization) Dec 17 Death & Rebirth of the Haight-Ashbury (Hairy Henry + Fyllis bust) 1966 end: 385,000 American troops in Vietnam 1966 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Alfie Green Berets Jacques Brel at the peak of popularity in France Suzanne - Leonard Cohen Dylan: Blonde on Blonde Beatles: Yesterday and Today *Re- volver *John meets Yoko *RS: After- math & Got Live *Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn (or was it 65?) & Fifth Dimension *Donovan: Sunshine Superman *The Who Monkees *Mamas & Papas: California Dreamin & Monday Monday Beach Boys: Good Vibrations *Simon & Garfunkel: Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. *Sounds of Silence *Pars- ley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme which :Scarborough Fair *Hollies (from UK) The Association Judy Collins: In My Life Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Prod. Mike Nichols: "raw dialogue" & Liz Taylor) Bergman: Persona Antonioni: Blow Up King of Hearts first released Cul- de-Sac directed by Roman Polanski Fahrehheit 451 directed by Truffaut Morgan! with Vanessa Redgrave Tom Jones Raquel Welch Alfie, A Man & A Woman Fantastic Voy- age (movie) Georgy Girl with Lynn Redgrave Alan Watts: The Book - On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Norman O. Brown: Love's Body Masters & Johnson: Human Sexual Response Intelligent Life in the Universe - I.S. Shklovskii & Carl Sagan John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy (universi- ty organized as military) Eric Berne's Games People Play (recheck if 65) Rod McKuen: Stanyan Street (?and other poems?) Foxfire project started, Rabun County High School, Georgia National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) founded when? Free University in New York ?Ledbetter's in LA 1967 Toron- to group starts to help draft resistors who are fleeing to Canada, eventually 20,000 come Birth- rate [crude], declining since 1957, drops to lowest level in history when? Chavez calls first grape boycott when? Jann Wenner (21) drops out of U.C. Berkeley and starts Rolling Stone Magazine Jan 1 New Year's Day Wail! - Angel's party for the Haight in the Panhandle - "First free rock concert in the park" Jan 1 Steve Durky/Durkee starts to buy land for Lama Foundation, northern New Mexico (re-ck Com- munes USA) Jan Leary's LSD "Celebration" arrives in SF Jan 6 Berkeley Strike [Jan 10 Provos in Amsterdam "bomb" royal wedding] delete? see 3/10/66 US troops move into Mekong delta Jan 14 Gathering of the Tribes for the First Human Be-In - 20,000 Polo Field GGP [20,000 Bohemians bk ?!300,000(Ringolevio)] (Ginsburg, McLure, Snyder, Leary, Ferlinghetti, Lenore Kandel) put on by Haight Independent Proprieters (H.I.P.) + the Communication Co. Jan 18 Leary speaks at UCLA Jan 23 Kerr announces tuition for U.C. Jan 27 US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuc weapons in space Jan 27 death of Grissom, White, Chaf- fee Apollo 1 blow up puts several month halt to space program 67 Feb 25,000 US troops to Cambodian border Feb *Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (second use of sitar ?in pop/rock music) and Penny Lane, Michelle, Yesterday Feb 19 Tribal Stomp (explain) spring SF: Happening House, Huckleberry House, and the Switchboard started, as well as Free Clinic Mar 1 Adam Clayton Powell denied House seat (re-elected without campaign April 11) Mar 1? Emmet Grogan to NY ("6 wks" to Apr 9) Mar Mime Troupe busted at Univ of Calgary for marijuana seed March James Hoffa finally goes to prison (appeals exhausted) (8 year sentence) March Science: LSD causes chromosome damage March Berk Barb: smokable banana rumor 67 March Haight people start to hear about and visit to Morning Star Farm (Sonoma) Mar 9 Fillmore opens 6 nights/week Mar 26 10,000 at Be-In NY Central Park (Easter?) the Equinox?? Mar 18 The first big oil spill: Torrey Canyon U.S. supertanker wreck off Land's End, England: 119,000 tons/90,000 tons wash up on Devon, Cornwall, Brittany Apr 5 Grayline Tours starts touring Haight Apr 7 Tom Donahue takes over KMPX, turns it into prog rock A 8- 10 Nashville Negro uprising, following Carmichael's speech at Fisk University Tenn Hse of Reps calls for Carmichael's deportation from the state? wk bef Apr 15: 1965 draft card law held unconsti- tutional by US first Circuit Court of Appeals 67 A 10-15 Vietnam Week: draft card burnings and turn-ins & anti-draft recruiter demonstrations Apr 15 400,000 march from Central Park to UN against V War addressed by MLK, McKissick, Carmichael, Spock ("led by MLK's Spring Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam") & SF 65,000 (Bd & Pup est.) 250,000 Bd & Pup & 175 draft cards burned A 11-24 Open housing drive: Louisville, Ky Apr 16 Negro uprising, Cleveland Apr 21 Military junta seizes control of Greece (deposing king) May first week Oakland Black Panthers demonstrate in the State legislature; first national media attention wkbfM19 Stokely Carmichael turns over Chair SNCC to H. Rap Brown May Bertrand Russell's War Crimes Tribunal meets in Stockholm, denounces U.S. leaders for crimes against humanity in Vietnam May `End of Provo' event - Vondelpark, Amsterdam --> formation of Kabouters May Life: "Who Says College Kids Have Changed? At Indiana Univ, the students' main concern is looking out for No. 1" 1967 May Paul McCartney reveals that Beatles have all taken acid (May 20 NYC: Flower Power Day) May 27 Scott MacKenzie: Are You Going to San Francisco enters charts May 30 Biafra de- clares independence from Nigeria May 30 (Mem. Day) NYC, Tompkins Square Park, Lower East Side: confronta- tion between hippies & Puerto Ricans June Alpert to In- dia for 3 mos June early - Diggers attend & boggle SDS meeting in Michigan June 2 Sgt. Pepper released US J 16-18 Monterrey Pop Fest: 50,000 hear Byrds, Jef Airp, Otis Redding, Mamas & Papas, Shankar + new Joplin, Hendrix, Who June Steve Durkee founds Lama (Foundation) 115 acres New Mexico 67 June 21 Solstice party in Golden Gate Park: 30-50,000? ? "First day of summer": New Buffalo founded near Taos, New Mexico (9 miles south of Lama) June 25 Beatles on tv introduce "All You Need Is Love" "Summer of Love": 75,000/100,000 in Hashbury [100,000 - Bohemians bk] June (end) Kesey sentenced to 6 mos. June 30 448,800 American troops in Vietnam (summer Dylan playing with The Band at Big Pink) July?? First Reggae Sunsplash Festival July 2 Congress passes Selective Service Act reform: ends grad student deferments & puts them in a pool to be drafted in June 68 (July 5 Diggers be- come the Free City Collective) July 11 Fonteyn & Nureyev busted in Haight 67 July 12- 17 Negro uprising, Newark, NJ (set off bycab driver John Smith's beating by police, after arrest for tail- gating & driving the wrong way on one-way street) 1000 injured, 1400 arrested, 16 mill dollars pro- perty damage July 19 Congress outlaws crossing state lines to "incite to riot" J 23-30 Detroit Negro uprising: largest U.S. riot of the century July 25 H. Rap Brown speech in Cambridge is followed by uprising (rt bef next) 1,100 at Black Power Conference in Newark: Play- wright LeRoi Jones; H. Rap Brown of SNCC; Charles Kenyatta of the Harlem Mau Maus; Ron Karenga of US; Dick Gregory July 26 H. Rap Brown arrested Washington air- port under the new law July 27 Uprisings: Toledo, Ohio; Ro- chester, NY; East Harlem (Puerto Rican youths); Pontiac, Mich +++ (100+ cities) Natl Guard called out for first time in quarter century Aug when? Abbie Hoffman & others drop dollar bills on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange 67 Aug 1 Stokely Carmichael calls for black revolution at conference for Lat-Am Solidarity in Havana echoed by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (in Bimini) first use of "black" noticed by media Aug 3&6 Shob & Superspade killed (John Kent Carter, 25 & William Thomas, 26) when? Doors: Light My Fire Top 40 14 weeks Aug Life: Discotheques "dazzle senses in an attempt to simulate a drug experience": Electric Circus in the East Village adds audience participa- tion Life: "its quite the thing to do to head for Kathmandu" Shankar touring US & opens Kinnara school of music LA Aug 7/8 George & Pattie Harrison visit the Haight Aug 15 MLK urges civil disobedience drive in northern cities & support of peace candidate in 68 (at Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta) Aug 25 Beatles go to Wales to talk to the Mahar- ishi Mahesh Yogi about Transcendental Meditation Aug last week: Chocolate George killed in car collision Aug 30 Thurgood Marshall, first black Sup Ct Justice, ap- pointed Sept? Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Ti- betan in Katmandu, stays in India & follows him un- til he meets his guru Sept 500,000 in South Vietnam, 600,000 in Southeast Asia Sept Tom Hayden & 30 Americans meet North Vietnamese leaders in Czechoslovakia; Hayden goes on to Vietnam to help return three U.S. P.O.W.s (to Nov 11) Sept 15 Donovan at Hollywood Bowl (must be) Oct 2 Dead House at 710 Ashbury is busted Oct 3 Woody Guthrie dies Oct 4 Psychedelic Shop closes and Thelins go to Wash DC for exorcism of Pentagon Oct 5 Lawrence Lipton starts class at UCLA 67 Oct 6 Death of Hippie, Loyal Son of Media, birth of free man Oct 8 Che Guevara killed in Bolivia (by troops trained in U.S.) Oct 9 First edition Rolling Stone Oct Carl Stokes becomes first black mayor of Cleveland Oct 6-12 LA Free Press: Why did you get up this morning? 67 Oct 11&12+? Teach- in at UCLA (w David Harris) Oct 12 "A Call to Resist Il- legitimate Authority", NY Review of Books 2,000 sign, including academics, clergymen, writers O 16-22 Stop the Draft Week: Anti-draft/draft-card "turn-in" rallies: Chicago, Phil, Boston, Cincinnati, Portland organized by National Mobilization Committee, a broad coalition of pacifist, religious, & radical groups O 17 Joan Baez + 122 arrested Oak Induction Center date? & Rev Wm Sloane Coffin Jr (43, Yale cha- plain), Dr Benjamin Spock (64), Mitchell Goodman (41, novelist), Marcus Raskin (33, former White House Disarmament aide & co-director of Washington research organization), and Michael Ferber (23, Harvard grad student) and 1 other deliver draft cards to U.S. Justice Dept. O 21-22 35,000/50,000/100,000 Wash DC - 647 arrested at Pentagon O 21 Diggers "Exor- cism of the Pentagon" (psychedelic face paint & flowers stuck in barrels of guns) Oct Rev. Philip Ber- rigan, a Josephite priest, Tom Lewis, David Eberhardt, and James Mengel pour duck's blood over draft files in the Baltimore, Md. Sel. Serv. hdqs. Oct 28 5 a.m.: Huey Newton (25) questioned by police in Oakland "desolate district". One hour later under arrest at hospital w gunshot wound in stomach. Few weeks later indicted on murder of one officer (John Frey Jr.), wounding of another, & kidnapping of by- stander. Nov 7 Gen. Hershey announces draft crackdown on deferred college students who are active in anti- war demos Nov 14 5,000 demo outside NY foreign policy ban- quet addressed by Sec of State Rusk Nov 21 Exorcism of the Pentagon, Wash DC march: 50,000 250 arrested including Norman Mailer (N 25 "last flower-child hippie-type demos in NYC - after this, militant") Nov Air war against N. Viet accelerated (bombing Hanoi) Nov Don McCoy & friends start community at Olompoli Ranch Nov Cream: Disreali Gears Nov 30 Eugene McCarthy (Senator from Minnesotta) announces candidacy, run- ning on anti-war platform was this the start of the People's Party? Dec Life: Return of the Red Man Dec 4 MLK announces Poor People's Campaign in Wash D.C. (to start late spring) Dec 5 Opening of Ap- ple Shop, Baker St, London with murals by The Fool Black boycott of Olympics (announced?) Dec 5- 8 "Stop the Draft Week" at Whitehall, NY Army Induction Center 546/585 arrested, including Spock & Ginsberg + Madison, Manchester N.H., Cincinnati, New Haven Dec 8? Otis Redding records "Dock of the Bay", his only major hit Dec 10 Otis Redding dies at 26 in plane crash Dec 22 Owsley busted in Orinda (stops production of acid) solst "people started to leave for the country" Dec?? Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Dec 31 Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, & friends pronounce themselves "Yuppies" 1967 end: 486,000 American troops in Vietnam Of the 15,000 killed, 60% died in 1967 1967 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING SAN FRANCISCO! Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour *RS: Between the Buttons w Ruby Tuesday & Flowers & Satanic Majesty *Donovan: Mellow Yellow *Wear Your Love Like Heaven San Francisco - John Phillips *Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow (second album) *Grateful Dead *Big Brother & the Holding Co (w Janis Joplin) *Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday *Buffalo Springfield *Coun- try Joe and the Fish *Jimi Hendrix: Experienced *Doors: Light My Fire & first album & Strange Days when was The End with sitar? *Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention *Velvet Underground: first *Van Morrison (on his own) (from UK) *Bee Gees (from UK) *Spencer Davis Group (from UK) *Pink Floyd (from UK) *Procol Harum (from UK) *UK: John Mayall ?Bluesbreakers(with Eric Clapton) Incredible String Band (from UK) *Canned Heat *Moby Grape *Pearls Before Swine Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme??? w Feelin Groovy Janis Ian (16)'s first hit?: Society's Child (about interracial dating) Judy Collins: Who Knows Where the Time Goes Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger *Laura Nyro ? :Up Up & Away TV: Smothers Brothers D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back (Dylan) Bonnie & Clyde The Battle of Algiers Ingrid Bergman returns to US stage for first time after her US career was "killed by scandel" in the late 40s La Guere est Finie directed by Alain Resnais How I Won the War with John Lennon The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols (The Dirty Dozen) Planet of the Apes [check] R. D. Laing: Politics of Experience Richard Brautigan: Trout-fishing in America Twiggy Lama Foundation, San Cristo- bal, New Mexico, founded (Washington Mag says maxis) 1968 number of divorces, & divorce rate, both jump by 12% and start rise Charlie Hall, Hashbury, invents the waterbed as a school project Steve Gaskin starts the Monday Night Class Yogi Bhajan comes to U.S. to teach Kundalini Yoga (Healthy, Happy, Holy) when? Huey Newton starts 34 mos in jail during trial for manslaughter in Oakland (released 1970) Wiretapping becomes a federal crime Gun Control Act curbs sale of handguns Dec 67 - mid-68: first heart transplants Hong Kong flu (?the first flu brot back from Viet- nam?) when? Dennis Banks, Russell Means, Clyde Bellecort & others found AIM in Minneapolis, working towards improving living conditions for urban Indians Akwesasne Notes started by members of Mohawk Nation Amer scientists tell natives evacuated in 1946 from Bikini it is safe to return; by 1978, 139 who re- turn found to contain dangerous levels of cesium & re-evacuated The dollar is worth 362 yen; Japan is still known for "cheap" trinket import items 68 SDS has 100,000 "members" Ivan E. Sutherland at Univ of Utah, invents first head- mounted Virtual Reality display, but powerful enough computer to use with it does not yet exist Dylan: John Wesley Harding Carnegie Hall: Tribute to Woody Guthrie (Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Odetta, Richie Havens, & Dylan with The Band) Jan-May 40,000 students participate in 221 major demonstra- tions on 101 campuses Jan 2 Federal: bil- ingual ed. Jan 5 Spock, Coffin, Mitchell Goodman, Micha- el Ferber, & Marcus Raskin indicted for delivering draft cards (Oct) Jan 16 Youth International Party (Y.I.P.) founded - Country Joe & Fish, Fugs, Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krass- ner, Phil Ochs, Jerry Rubin (25 artists, writers & revolutionaries) 68 Jan 18 Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White House speaks out against the war Jan 22 B-52 carrying H-Bomb crashes in Greenland Jan 23 Pueblo seized by Korea Jan 31 Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive - (to Feb 24) 70,000 Viet Cong troops attack 100 S.Viet ci- ties start of the turnaround + pic- ture of police chief shooting VC in head Feb 9 In the land of the blind Feb 16 Draft deferments for most grad students & all occupational deferments eliminated Feb 17 Second Tribal Stomp Feb Leary evicted from Millbrook house Feb *Beatles to India to visit Maharishi (at Rishikesh on the Ganges) + Mia Farrow, Donovan Ringo stays 10 days, Paul 9 weeks, John & George longer & Mahar- ishi Mahesh coming to US Feb 29 RFK & Javits, NY's Sena- tors, speak out Morning Star Ranch busts -> Wheeler Ranch opened to settlers winter Bill Wheeler (28) opens nearby Sheep Ridge Ranch (Wheeler's Ranch) (320 acres) for people to live on the land Mar 2 RFK speech to Congress about Vietnam 68 Mar 8-9 Warsaw student uprisings, Mar 11 workers uprising March Hue bombed to rubble in "25 days of horror" to retake from VC / during "peace feelers" (including Mylai massacre March 16: 200 - 500 villagers killed) Mar McCarthy's "Children's Crusade": thousands work on New Hampshire primary, calling on nearly every voter in the state Mar 12 10,000 students go door to door in heavy snows Mar 12 Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote, overtaking the Pres, & causing RFK to "reconsider" on Vietnam (& LBJ not to run, sez Great Expectations p.113) Mar 16 RFK declares candidacy Mar 19 Pres advisors advise getting out of Vietnam war (Mar 22 first N.Y. YIP event) Olympic boycott Mar 31 LBJ announces decision not to run again and offers partial bomb- ing halt and appointment of Averell Harriman to seek negotiations Apr 1 Supreme Court extends one-man, one-vote doctrine to local governments ?Baker vs. Carr -> reapportionment 68 Apr 4 MLK shot and killed, at Memphis motel, 7 p.m. during Poor People's Cam- paign (39 years old); within two hours: A 4- 11 Black uprisings Chicago, Baltimore, Wash DC, Cincinnati, Boston, Detroit, Phil, SF, Toldeo, Pittsburgh 125 cities in 29 states total Apr 6 Cleaver arrested with a bullet-shattered leg during Oak police ambush on Panthers + Bobby Hutton (17) shot and killed Apr 11 LBJ signs civil rights bill banning housing discrimination (with anti-riot felony amendment) Apr 11 Major call-up of reserves for duty in Vietnam Apr 14 (Easter Sunday) Love-in Malibu Canyon Peak of demonstrations in West Berlin against Axel Springer & his publishing empire, after assasination attempt on Rudi Dutschke ("Red Rudy") Apr 15 Spring Mobilization against the war 68 A 23- 30 Students take over 5 Colombia Univ bldgs pro- testing University's affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analysis and its Pentagon-related research, and construction of athletic facility opposed by neighboring Harlem (Mark Rudd becomes famous as leader) 700+ arrested, strike continues for another month Apr 25 Paul Horn records in the Taj Mahal Apr 29 Rev. Ralph Abernathy succeeds MLK as President of Southern Christian Leadership Conference Ap/May Black Panthers start Free Breakfast for Children program My 2-17 SCLC Poor People's March on Washington 3,000 erect Resurrection City, tent city on the Mall My 2-14 Street fighting in Paris May 13 US & Viet begin talks in Paris 68 M 13-30 France: Sorbonne demons- trations: humanism vs technology French students occupy the Sorbonne Demonstrations in Madrid, Rome, Berlin, NY, & Czechoslovakia (during "Prague Spring") May Two Virgins: Lennon & Yoko naked Beatles launch Apple Corps when? Former Stanford Student Body President David Harris mar- ries Joan Baez May Life: abundance of show biz people in Presidential campaign 68 May 21 Tom Donahue & djs from KMPX start [new format at] KSAN May 21 Second mass arrest at Columbia University May 22 H. Rap Brown of SNCC con- victed for carrying weapon across state lines May 24 Philip Berrigan & Tom Lewis sentenced to 6 years May before or after? Philip Berrigan, out on bail, and brother Daniel, a Jesuit priest, and seven others remove records from Catonsville, Md. draft board office and set them on fire outside in the presence of reporters and onlookers May 28 McCarthy wins over RFK in Oregon primaries June 3 Andy Warhol shot June 4 Calif primaries: RFK wins June 5 RFK shot (42), Ambassador Hotel, LA (Sirhan Sirhan arrested) (Jn 8 James Earl Ray (accused of MLK murder), arrested London) 68 June 14 Spock, Coffin, Ferber, Goodman convicted of conspiracy for "draft counseling" 1968 June oldest baby boomers graduate college June 18 Monterey Pop June 25 Poor People's Campaign March 50,000 Georgia to Wash D.C. June Libre, Colorado community founded summer early - Hayden to Paris to confer w N. Vietnamese reps. 68 summer Haight Ashbury Media Summer + "Young Ameri- cans Abroad" July 4 Graham first concert at Fillmore West (Van Ness & Market) July Yellow Submarine movie July Haight Ashbury riot (including B of A burning leads to H.I.P. boarding up their stores Wallace campaign, and McGovern enters the race J 23-24 Cleveland black uprising July Pope's birth control encyclical Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed Operation Breadbasket, Chicago, begins with boycott of A&P stores over discrim in hiring, with Jesse Jackson, 27, as head? July U.S. Viet tropps increase by 19,000 to 535,000 1968?? Peace & Freedom Party campaign? Cleaver for Pres, then Dick Gregory?? Aug Cream: Wheels of Fire Aug First Apple release: Beatles: Hey Jude & Revolution Aug 1000 meet in prayer before UN for food aid to Biafra Aug Panthers Tommy Lewis, 18 & Steve Bartholomew, 21 and ?Arthur Morris, 28 shot to death by police in Los Angeles A 20-21 Soviet tanks invade Prague, Czech with 200,000 troops A 25-29 Democratic Convention in Chicago: demonstrations & police riot 10,000? demonstrators vs. 11,000 Chicago police; 6,000 Na- tional Guard; 7,500 U.S. army troops; and 1,000 FBI,CIA & army/navy intelligence services agents (Humphrey nominated on platform supporting the war) (A 27 candlelight, matches at Yippie Festival concert, coliseum) fall women's movement groups start in Berkeley 68 Sept 8 Huey Newton (leader Black Panther Party) convicted Oakland vol manslaughter Oak policeman Sept Stock Market starts 18 month +? downhill slide Sept American Indian Movement (AIM) born as a volunteer street patrol to combat police brutality, Minneapo- lis Sept 18 Troops invade Mexico City Natl Univ (demos since mid summer) Sept "Eldridge Cleaver banned from lecturing on U.C. Berk campus" Oct 2 After 9 weeks of student strikes, Mexican military opens fire on 6,000 gathered in housing project plaza for march on Natl Polytech Institute to protest army occupa- tion of campus 28-200 killed, 200-500 wounded, 1500 jailed Oct 3 Yippie Jerry Rubin arrives at HUAC's inquiry into Aug uprisings w a toy M-16 & a red, blue & yel cape resembling VC flag Oct Angela Davis, 26?, goes to jail Oct 18 John & Yoko busted Oct late- 4000 demonstrators at U.C. Berk after Regents deny credit for Cleaver's course Nov ("a few weeks after late Oct") Cleaver flees to Algeria 68 Nov First Whole Earth Catalog O31/N1 LBJ orders halt to all bombing in Viet Nov 5 Nixon defeats Humphrey (narrowest victory since 1912: .7% (43.4-42.7)) also Shirley Chisholm, first black female elected to Hse Rep (from NY) (Stock Market starts drop) Nov 6 San Francisco State: strike called by students Pres. S.I. Hayakawa stations several hundred police on campus Nov Cream's Farewell Concert at the Royal Albert Hall Priests from all over US meet in Wash to protest Pope's ban on con- traception. Many start to renounce their vows ?Dr. Paul Ehrlich & Dr. Thomas Eisner found ZPG at Yale Nov Yoko's miscarriage Nov Hayakawa closes SF State for 8 days (reopens Dec 2) N?D? Emmet Grogan delivers payment to Fred Hampton in Chicago for (cooperation?) in the making of a movie called "American Revolution II"; Hampton later used this as a medium for forming the Rainbow Coalition Dec (1) National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of Violence releases "Walker report" which censures Chicago Police for behavior during "Police Riot" at Democratic Natl Convention Dec 2 NY City high school stu- dents uprising: Brooklyn + D 13-16 San Mateo College closed D 21-27 Apollo 8 with three astronauts circles moon ten times & takes photo of earth rising behind the moon on Dec 24 1968 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Abraham, Martin & John *RS: Beggar's Banquet ?Beatles: White Album [or was this 69?] Hey Jude; Lady Ma- donna Dylan: John Wesley Harding *The Band: Music from the Big Pink *Donovan: From a Flower to a Garden & Hurdy Gurdy Man Simon & Garfunkxx: Bridge over Troubled Water *Doors: Waiting for the Sun *Hendrix: Axis Bold As Love & Electric Ladyland *Fleetwood Mac *Steve Miller *Quicksilver Dr. John: first solo *Sly and the Family Stone Creedence Clearwater Revival *Blue Cheer ("Heavy Metal") *Iron Butterfly ("Heavy Metal") *Vel- vet Underground: White Light/White Heat ("H M") *Deep Purple ("Heavy Metal") *Moody Blues *Electric Flag *Blood, Sweat & Tears *Seatrain (formed from Blues Project) *Jeff Beck Group (from UK) *Traffic (from UK) *Joe Cocker (from UK) *Bon- zo Dog Band (from UK) *Pentangle (from UK) *Joni Mitchell (first) *Leonard Cohen *Randy Newman Taj Mahal ?Cream [at UCLA May 68] Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airma?n moves from Detroit to SF (?Roberta Flack) Z If . . . Yellow Sub- marine 2001 directed by Kubrick Hair (from April 29) (Planet of the Apes, Barbarella) ??I Am Curious - Yellow first Zap Comix Tom Wolfe: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Eldrige Cleaver: Soul on Ice Dr. Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb Akwesasne Notes starts publication Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan Aerobics - Dr. Kenneth Cooper (first use of the term for exercise) Tiny Tim Peter Max "Un- isex clothing" Jogging Forty heart transplants Joan Baez marries David Harris and David Harris starts 3 year jail sentence for refusing to register for the draft Auroville Cooperative, India, founded Ananda Cooperative Village, Nevada City, Califor- nia, founded 1969 Peak of China's "Cultural Revolution" Airplane hijack- ings reach peak (65 seized in 69) North Sea oil operations start (U.K.) Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio due to pollution SDS has all- time high of 304 chapters (Geo. Leonard p. 340) 150 community-based underground newspapers (Leonard p. 341) Charles Evers of Fayette, Miss becomes first black mayor of an integrated community in the south (doublecheck year) spring: 150 Navajos meet to op- pose Peabody Coal Co strip mining Jan Panthers John Huggins, 23 & Alprentice (?Bunchy) Carter, 26 shot to death in UCLA lunchroom Jan 6 SF State reopens after 3 weeks (sic) Jan 7 Gov. Reagan asks Calif legislature to "drive criminal anarchists & latter-day Fascists off the campuses" Jan 8 San Fernando State 1,000 demo & attempt to occupy admin bldg Jan 8 San Jose: Teachers join strike Jan 28 Sta Barb oil well blowout (continues into midsummer) Jan 30 Howard Univ: Med schl frosh boycott anatomy courses until Feb ouster of dept chairman Feb Four aquanauts descend 50 feet to a sea lab on the bottom of Great Lameshur Bay in the Virgin Islands, to live there 60 days Feb massive strike U.C. Berkeley for ethnic studies Feb 5 Reagan declares state of extreme emergency Feb 11 St. George Williams Col- lege, Montreal: 200 students smash computer with axes & set computer center on fire during sit-in protesting prof's racism Feb 12 Howard Univ: law school protest Feb 13 Univ of Mass: 33 arrested at admin bldg sit-in F 18-19 Howard Univ: bldg seized & boycott started Feb 22 Rice Univ: 1,000 students & 200 faculty rally protesting presidential appointment F 24- 25 Penn State Univ: admin bldg occupied Feb 27 U.C. Berkeley: police charge student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano leaders Feb 27 U of Wisconsin (Madison): thousands rampage thru nine buildings over black enrollments Feb 27 University of Chicago: march Mar Chicago Eight indicted Mar 12 Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman Mar 13 George Harrison's house raid- ed 69 Mar ?13 Secret bombings of Cambodia start: 3,650 B-52s drop four times the tonnage of bombs dropped on Japan in all of World War II Mar 20 John & Yoko fly to Gibraltar & get married then fly to Amsterdam for one week "lie-in" for peace Mar 24 Lennox Raphael's play Che is busted for ob- scenity two days after opening at the Free Store Theatre in Manhattan 69 Apr Dylan: Nashville Skyline Apr Beatles "Get Back" single released Apr start creating People's Park on land near the U.C. campus, vacant for a year or two since houses bulldozed when? ASUC election: in large turnout, UC stu- dents vote to keep the land as a park Apr 3 Fed Reserve Bd raises prime rate from 5 1/2 to 6% (highest in 40 years) Apr 4 Smothers Broth- ers tv show canceled `controversial' also Bill Cos- by tv show canceled around this time Rowan & Martin 's Laugh-in starts around this time Apr 4-6 Demonstations on the anniversary of MLK's death & anti-war: Chi- cago; Memphis (10,000 gather to pay tribute); NY (20,000+ up Fifth Ave, some with "33,000" armbands-explain) (Is this the Bryant Park demo?) Apr 9 Har- vard: 300 led by SDS seize Univ Hall Apr 10 Harvard: Pol- ice called in; 37 injured, 200 arrested Apr 11 Harvard: start of 3 day student strike Apr 18 Harvard votes to make ?ROTC "extracurricular" Apr 22 Harvard faculty votes to create black studies program & give students vote in selection of its faculty Apr 22 City College of NY closed after black & Puerto Rican students lock selves inside asking higher minority enrollment 69 Apr 24 B- 52 launch biggest attack on N? Vietnam demos NY (Sixth Ave), Atlanta, Chicago, Calif - 40 cities Demos and strike at Cornell Apr 30 543,000 US soldiers in Vietnam May when? Fifteen people enter Chicago central draft depository and destroy all records of twelve local draft boards and some files of eight others May when? John and Yoko: Montreal bed- in week and record "Give Peace a Chance" May 7 Lou Gottlieb deeds Morning Star Ranch to God May 13 Nixon sends draft reform plan to Congress May 14 Sup Ct Justice Abe Fortas resigns under fire for per- sonal conduct (first in history) May 14 Night: police build fence around People's Park May 15 People's Park: James Rector (25) killed Reagan: "If it's a blood bath, then let it be now." orders gassing of U.C. campus 60 wounded, including Alan Blanchard blinded for life, Steve Carr -> 17 days of street fighting, ending in march by 30,000 150 demonstrators shot & wounded May 19 Sup Ct overturns Leary conviction for crossing Mex to Texas w mj - over- turns 2 fed anti-mj laws May 20 134 day class boycott of San Francisco State settled May 21? Police in helicopters drop teargas on U.C. Berk campus rally May 22 Colombia: 100 (SDS) students flee 2 bldgs after warrants (asking no military recruitment on campus, end to ROTC, black studies program) + Queens (NYC) & Cornell when? "Canadian govt allows Am mil deserters to settle in Canada" May 30 (Mem Day) 20,000 people in People's Park - with permit flowers on the fences May Apollo 8 photo of earthrise over the moon published as US postage stamp & circulated widely, as Buckminster Fuller uses the term "space- ship earth" June Berkeley Ecology Center (first in U.S.) opens June Progressive Labor Party takes over SDS, Weathermen born 69 June 8 Nixon announces withdrawal of 25,000 troops from Viet (of 540,000) by Aug 31 June Prime? rate 7 1/2 to 8 1/2% (third hike in 69) June Commencement protests anti-Viet + (Brandeis, Yale, Wesleyan +++) Brown University: two-thirds of graduating class turn their backs on Henry Kissinger's address June 28 Police raid of Christo- pher Street, NY bar sets off Stonewall Riots --> start of gay lib mvmt recheck 1969-70 1969 July?1? First Draft Lottery could this be? see 11/69 July 3 Brian Jones of Rolling Stones dies July 7 Charles Ever sworn in as first black mayor of biracial town in Mississip- pi since Reconstruction (Fayette) July 9 Canada language bill signed, giving right to use either French or English July 11 Spock & Ferber's 68 conviction overturned by First Circuit Court of Appeals, Boston & Coffin & Goodman cases sent back for retrial July 14 park activists storm People's Park July 18 Sen. Ted Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick (Mary Jo Ko- pechne, 28, killed) Life: The Youth Communes July 20 Apollo 11: Armstrong & Aldrin first walk on the moon & earthrise from the moon photo taken when? Cleaver (still) in Algeria & Carmichael in Guinea 69 summer Gaskin's travels -> The Farm founded, Summertown, Tenn. summer & fall: In the wake of the success of Easy Rider, Hollywood briefly opens up to new, young, low-budget filmmakers July 31 People's Park paved over (huh?) Aug Blind Faith forms, with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker from Cream and Steve Winwood from Traffic Aug Sonoma County sends bulldozers onto Morning Star Ranch to remove structures Aug 9 Sharon Tate & LaBiancas found murdered Aug 17 wkend Woodstock: 300,000 Richie Havens, Jef Air, Dead, CSN&Y, Creed C Rev, Who, the Band, Joplin, Hendrix Aug 20 Oakland: Bobby Seale, Natl Chair BPParty, arrested for New Haven murder of former Panther Alex Rachey (suspected black informer) (charges eventually dropped) Aug last Sat & Sun Isle of Wight Festival: 200,000 including Dylan with The Band [I've seen this as 70 too] 69 Sept 3 Ho Chi Minh dies 69 Sept 13 Toronto: Lennon & "Plastic Ono Band" Sept 15 David Brower announces founding of Friends of the Earth Sept 24 Trial of Chicago Eight starts (David Del- linger, Rennie Davis, Thomas Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Bobby Seale) Sept 28 W Germany: first (postwar) Socialists take power (Willy Brandt & Social Democrats in coalition with Free Democrats) Oct early: Beatles: Abbey Road Dylan bootleg: Great White Wonder oct 6 Weathermen blow up statue commemorating police victims of Haymarket bombings Oct 8 Weathermen/Weather Underground violent "Days of Rage" demos, Chicago - 3 shot, 300 arrested Oct 9 2,500 Natl Guard called in -> Oct ll Oct 12? Gitlin says Manson arrested and charged 69 Oct 15 Viet Moratorium ** [Peace Day] thruout US (organized by Sam Brown & David Mixner) 100,000 Boston Common / 40,000 Bryant Park, Manhattan / 30,000 candlelight march past White House, led by MLK (Life) Wash D.C.: names of 45,000 Amers killed in Viet carried 12,000 Chicago & Pres of 79 colleges appeal to Nixon to step up withdrawal timetable (black armbands worn all over the U.S.) [10 million involved throughout the U.S.] John Lennon returns MBE to protest UK's involvement in the Nigerian war & its support of US in Vietnam Oct 21 Jack Kerouac dies McCartney dead? ru- mor starts O 29-31 Chicago Eight Trial: Judge Hoffman ord- ers Bobby Seale bound & gagged (after refused per- mission to act as or have his own defense counsel) Oct 30 Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation thru out U.S. Oct 31 Wheeler's Ranch invaded by 25-man army of policemen, narcotics agents, juvenile officers, FBI agents, etc. without search warrant; when one of female residents arrested, Bill Wheeler objected, and was attacked; Bill Wheeler and four others arrested for assault; all later found not guilty Nov 3 Nixon announces "Vietnamization" program to shift Vietnam fighting from U.S. troops to U.S.-trained local troops Nov 4 Chicago Eight Trial becomes Chicago Seven Trial: Seale cited by Judge Hoffman for con- tempt & given 4 years in jail; retrial ordered on Seale's case Nov Attempt to introduce the maxi (coat) starts Nov eight bombings in Manhattan Nov 9 78 Native Americans land on & occupy Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, site of an abandoned military base Nov 13 Second National Moratorium N 13- 15 Weathermen led by Rubin & Hoffman march on Justice Dept. 69 Nov 14 Crosby-Stills Nash & Yg concert + Joy of Cooking (Winterland) before Nov 15 Mobilization: Wash DC march 250,000 (-750,000 Gitlin) Capitol to Penn Ave to Wash mon Speakers: McCarthy, Sen. George McGovern, Sen. Charles Goodell, Coretta King, Dick Gregory, Leonard Bernstein; Singers: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, & Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair Nov 19 Congress passes random selection of draftees thru lottery & permits first calling of 19 yr olds & expired college deferments & allows call-up by birthday (+ second lottery by first letter of last name within each date group + third for within letters) Nov 21 Senate turns down first Sup Ct nominee (Nixon's) since 1930 Nov 24 Apollo 12: second landing on moon Nov 30 U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley charged with covering up the massacre of 567 civilians by his troops at Mylai, Vietnam in March 1968 Nov 30 600 Native Americans occupying Alcatraz Dec 1 First Draft Lottery Dec 4 Panthers Fred Hampton (21) & Mark Clark (22) shot and killed in their beds by Chicago police during raid making at least 19 Panther leaders (they claim 28) killed in 18 months (+ Huey Newton currently in prison) Dec 24 Manson `Family' indict- ments Rolling Stones free concert at end of tour, Altamont racetrack, Ca: 300,000 attend Meredith Hunter (18) killed 1969 by end, over 100,000 Americans have died in Vietnam 65,000 troops brought home to U.S. 1969 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING *Beatles: Abbey Road *Lennon & Plastic Ono Band: Give Peace a Chance *Lennon & Ono: Two Virgins *Harrison: Wonderwall *RS: Let It Bleed *Rod Stewart *Dylan: Nashville Skyline Great White Wonder (first Dylan bootleg) *Baez: David's Album (late 69) *Joni Mitchell: Clouds *Santana *Mother Earth *Dan Hicks *Janis Joplin: Kozm- ic w Bobby McGee? Jim Croce *Neil Young (from Buffalo Springfield) first solo Jethro Tull *Captain Beefheard: Trout Mask Replica *Led Zeppelin *MC5 ("Heavy Metal") *Black Pearl ("Heavy Metal") *Grand Funk Railroad ("Heavy Metal") *King Crimson *Chicago *Miles Davis (*Desmond Decker: The Israelites - pre-Reggae) ? Jim Kweskin's Jug Band (with Maria Muldaur) Fellini: Satyricon Midnight Cowboy; Alice's Restaurant; Monterey Pop; Easy Rider*; Putney Swope*; Medium Cool*; Last Summer*; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Goodbye, Columbus; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Oh! What a Lovely War; The Who pop opera film; Wild Bunch [recheck - have this earlier]; Butch Cassidy; Startrek taken off tv after 3 yr run Vonnegot: Slaughterhouse-Five French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Sex But Were Afraid to Ask - David Reuben (more 70?) Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth The Strawberry Statement-James Simon Kunen I'm OK - You're OK - Thomas Harris (Eric Berne's transactional analysis) The Peter Principle - Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull Charles Bukowski: Notes of a Dirty Old Man Theodore Roszak: The Making of a Counterculture Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: On Death and Dying Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive - John Muir Custer Died for Your Sins - Vine Deloria, Jr. Arcology: The City in the Image of Man - Paolo Soleri maxi coats (floor length) first? unixsex haircutting salon 1970 Com- mon Cause founded Jim Hightower founds Agribusiness Accountability Project, Nader-type group to inves- tigate conglomerate influence over U.S. food supply Celestial Seasonings founded, Boulder, Colorado when? Dem. Party Commission (Sen. Geo McGovern, chair) begins reform 174 bombings on college campuses between fall 69 and spring 70 400,000 Americans soldiers in Vietnam, sez EWJ when? Gdansk shipyard strike (Poland) Jan Radical Chic parties by Bernsteins to raise funds for Panthers The Last Days of Biafra Jan 1 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) signed by Nixon (?creates EPA+) Jan 2 Supreme Court rules unconstitutional General Lewis Hershey's 1967 directive that local draft boards reclassify to 1-A (eligible for active duty) anti-draft demonstrators Jan 5 Mississippi integrates first three districts of its public schools Jan 6 Supreme Court upholds prohibition of underground GI anti-war newspaper at Fort Bragg Jan 13 Three black prisoners killed by guard at Soledad Prison during melee Jan 16 Guard killed at Soledad Prison; Soledad Brothers (includ- ing George Jackson) accused Feb Leary sentenced to 10 years for Texas/Mex mj bust Feb 4 "riot in Isla Vista protesting Chicago verdicts, ended in B of A bomb- ing" (sez Gitlin) Feb 9 NY: Underground `Rat' publishes Robin Morgan's "Goodbye to All That" feminist statement Feb 16 Demo for "The Chicago Seven" - City Hall Park & Foley Sq (NYC?) Feb 19 Chicago Seven Trial: Del- linger, Davis, Hayden, Hoffman, & Rubin found guil- ty of crossing state lines to incite riot; Froines & Weiner acquitted; attorneys William Kunstler & Leonard Weinglass sentenced for contempt of court; all appealed Feb 20 - sentenced Feb 19-28 in prison on Judge Hoffman's contempt charges "half a million people in the streets" (Oil spill Tampa Bay near St. Petersburg) Explosions in 3 office buildings in NY; Explosions in Calif; Wash; Maryland; Mich Feb 25 Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Bank of America burning Mar 6 three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village (house of Cathy Wilkerson's father) (Diana Oughton, Cathlyn Wilkerson, Kathy Boudin) Cambodia: Prince Sihanouk deposed by conservatives for allowing Pathet Lao & N. Viet forces to cross the Plain of Jars Mar Women's Wear Daily decrees skirts are going midi. For the first time, not everybody listens Alaska's oil bonanza/rush While Sihanouk is in Europe, Cambodian government demands that the North Vietnamese & Viet Cong troops withdraw Mar 18 Coup in Cambodia Mar 23 Nix- on calls out Natl Guard to alleviate delays caused by the first widespread postal workers' strike Mar 31 Oak Induc Center spring 2500 Berkeley stu- dents turn in draft cards, typical of U.S. (before Cambodian protests even start) (Gitlin) spring Dennis Hopper in Peru making The Last Movie (Kristofferson music), meets Joplin spring Huey Newton released 70 Apr Post office strike starts (huh? - see Mar 23) Apr Philip & Daniel Berrigan go underground to avoid serving sentences Apr 7 Ronald Reagan, Gov. of Calif: "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with." Apr 10 McCartney announces dissolution of Bea- tles John & Yoko to California for 4 months of Dr. Arthur Janov's Primal Scream therapy Apr Apollo 13 (third trip to the moon) - accident 70 Apr 22 Earth Day: millions participate in Wash, NY, + Apr 23 (ck) Bobby Seale (Chicago?) retrial begins Apr 30 Nixon sends troops into Cambodia to aid the Lon Nol govt (until June 30) (30,000 US + 40,000+ So Viet) (an- nounces on tv) when? "a few months after Feb": U of Wisconsin bldg bombed, killing researcher May First week: 30 ROTC bldgs burned or bombed, Natl Guard on 21 campuses in 16 states May 1 (Saturday) ROTC bldg ransacked College Park, Wash D.C. "M 1-2" New Haven: new protests over the pending trial of Seale & Ericka Hu/iggins -> 20,000 by Sunday May 2 (Sunday) ROTC bldg burned down at Kent State May 3 Yale Day: 15,000 protest 9 Black Panthers awaiting trial in New Haven 70 May 4 Kent State Univer- sity, Ohio: National Guard fires into crowd at anti-war demonstration, 4 students killed & 8 wounded May 4 5,000 demo at College Park, Wash D.C., 450 policemen unable to disperse, 600 Natl Guard sent in _____ _____________________________________________________________ M 6-20? The Strike 448 colleges 1 million+ students "4 million students" Gitlin: 750+ campuses (of 2500 nationwide), demos at 1200+ (demonstrations against sending troops to Cambodia) when? ?including? Stanford "worst riots in its history" (75 campuses stayed closed thru rest of the school year) ----- ---------- -------------------------------------------------- May 8 (ck) Nixon fire Gen. Lewis Hershey as director of the Selective Service & agrees to withdraw all U.S. troops from Cambodia within 30 days May 9 Mobilization: 100,000+ in Wash D.C. on only 10 days notice (Git) M 9-11 50-60,000 demonstrators gather in Washington May 13 Movement for a New Congress - to elect peace candidates founded at Princeton Univ 70 M 14/15 Jackson State College woman's dorm, Mississippi: two black students killed, 9/12/12 wounded - no media coverage May Philip Berrigan captured, sent to Federal Penitentiary Also H. Rap Brown jumps bail on way to Maryland trial for inciting riot & arson Ma/Jun? Alcatraz removals 70 wkbfM22 crashing Stock Market: last 18 months 985 -> 631 "greatest loss since '29" ?June Five Kabouters elected to Amsterdam Mun- icipal Council including former Provo theorist Roel van Duyn, who starts off by arriving at meetings on a bicycle June Dylan: Self-Portrait June Lou Gottlieb back in court to defend ownership of Morn- ing Star Ranch by God June 15 Sup Ct rules any indiv may object to military service on ethical & moral grounds, if such convictions "are deeply felt", giving more responsibility to local draft boards June 19 Two banks bombed in Berkeley June !commencement demonstrations/anti-commencements Dylan accepts honorary degree at Princeton June 22 Voting age lowered to 18 wk bef J 29 Sen- ate votes 81-10 to repeal Gulf of Tonkin res & passes the future aid to Lon Nol without conges- sional approval June 28 First Gay rights march NYC 70 June 29 Last Amer soldiers in Cambodia withdrawn 1970 July 1 Second(?) draft lottery July?? Abortions legalized? sum- mer 28 commissioned military officers, representing 250 others, form Concerned Officers Movement against the war summer Chicago Grant Park riot Aug 5 Huey Newton ruled not guity of voluntary manslaughter & released (+ trip to China) Aug 7 Courtroom kidnap in San Rafael: Jonathan Jackson, 17, h.s. student from Pasadena and Angela Davis's ex-bodyguard & brother of George Jackson, one of the Soledad Bros., attempt to spring James McClain at his hearing, plus ?Ruchell Magee & Wm Christmas who are present as inmate witnesses; McClain & Christmas killed, as well as Judge Harold Halay Aug 11 Daniel Berrigan recaptured, sent to Fed. Pent. Aug 29 Powder Ridge, Conn music fest prohibited but 30,000 show up anyway Aug 29 Selective Ser- vice Systems report: prosecutions for draft evasion have increased ten times over 1965 level Aug 29 thousands of Chicanos gather at Laguna Park in East L.A. to protest disproportionate number of deaths of Chicano soldiers in Vietnam. LAPD attack & one shot, fired into Silver Dollar Bar, kills Ruben Salazar, LA Times columnist & commentator on KMEX TV (accused by LAPD of inciting the Chicano community) Aug (end) Amsterdam bans sleeping outdoors; confronta- tions lead to establishment of Vondel Park sleeping area (for 3 years) Sept Selective Service Systems report: 271 "anti-draft occur- rances" since January Sept 12 Leary escapes prison (San Luis Obispo) with help from the Weather Under- ground, joins Cleaver in Algiers Sept 18 Jimi Hendrix dies at 27 Monterey Folk Festival (Kristofferson) 70 Oct 4 Janis Joplin dies at 27 Oct Jane Fonda starts campus speaking tour Oct Yoko has miscarriage Oct 12 Gaskin's caravan leaves SF Oct 13 Angela Davis, 26, arrested Manhattan charged with involve- ment in Aug courtroom kidnap Still trying to get the midi in Oct Dylan: New Morning Oct 26 Bank of America fire, Irvine Nov 3 Chile: Allende (first Marx- ist) sworn in Nov 5 Indians occupy federal land near Davis Nov 17 Trial of Bobby Seale & Ericka Huggins begins (ended May 25, 71) Dec 4 Cesar Chavez jailed for lettuce boycott (was this the first?) Dec 15 Bank of America bombing, Santa Barbara 70 Dec McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles Dec John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band : "the Primal album" God is a Concept, the dream is over (Lennon's first solo album) Dec Hundreds of Vietnam Veterans Against the War testify at "Winter Soldier" investigations in Detroit about Vietnam atrocities Senate votes to halt funds for SST development Dec Geronimo Pratt, Black Panther's Defense Minister, charged with murder & starts 17 years in prison Dec Nixon signs Natl Air Quality Control Act, requiring 90% reduction in car-exhaust pollution by 75 1966-70 Military desertion rate 300% 1967-70 Conscientious objectors 20,000 -> 40,000 1971 80,000 draft resistors have fled to Canada 1970 another 140,000 troops brought home to U.S. (Stock market at a low, starts recovery) 1970 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Hot Tuna out Ry Cooder CSN&Y: Deja vu *Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon *Dylan: New Morning ?Lennon: A Working Class Hero (what album was this) *Eric Clapton *Hendrix: Band of Gyp- sys *RS: Get Yer Ya Ya's Out *Harris- on: All Things Must Pass *Beatles: Let It Be *Black Sabbath ("Heavy Metal") Judy Collins: Whales & Nightingales *Linda Ronstadt *James Taylor Rita Coolidge *CSN & Y: Deja Vu *Stephen Stills first solo *Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water *John McLaughlin *Allman Broth- ers Band Johnny Winter *Elton John (from UK) *Jimmy Cliff: first *John Renbourn: first solo *Cat Stevens Eric Clapton's first solo (Easy Now) Harrison: All Things Must Pass De- lanie & Bonnie & Friends: Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour (with Rita Coolidge along) TV: Dick Cavett show starts Bergman: The Passion of Anna Fellini: The Clowns Bertolucci: The Conformist Five Easy Pieces They Shoot Horses, Don't They (I have this as 69 too) M*A*S*H (war humor) (the movie) (was this when the tv show started?) Catch 22 the film Women In Love (" ") Hair all over the world Woodstock the film Little Big Man Performance Virgin & the Gypsy (Love Story) Living on The Earth - Alicia Bay Laurel The Tassajara Bread Book Our Bodies Ourselves Painless Childbirth - Fernand Lamaze (translated from the French edition published around 1956) Domebook One - Lloyd Kahn & Bob Easton The Greening of America - Charles Reich Tom Wolf: Radical Chic Scott & Helen Nearing's Living the Good Life republished & sells 170,000 copies Jerry Rubin: Do It! More than 50 underground anti-war military newspa- pers being published Sexual Pol- itics - Kate Millett Alvin Toffler: Future Shock I and Thou - Martin Buber Zen Mind, Beginners Mind - Suzuki Roshi Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich Vitamin C and the Common Cold - Linus Pauling Arthur Janov: The Primal Scream What Color is Your Parachute? - Richard Bolles Up the Organization - Robert Townsend Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach Erik Van Daniken [.. over a] - Chariots of the Gods Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude (orig? translation?) Paulo Soleri starts building Arcosanti Swami Muktananda introduced to US (by Ram Dass) - Siddha meditation 1971 when? Oregon becomes first state to pass a bottle deposit and return bill when? D.Q. University established Supersonic transport (SST) project canceled National debate over fate of elms in central Stock- holm square (Kungstradgarden) Jan Two Standard Oil tankers collision & spill, SF five days later, Esso tanker spill, Long Island Sound Jan Senator George McGovern opens campaign for Pres Jan 7 DDT use outlawed by U.S. Court of Appeals Jan 12 Rev. Philip F. Berrigan (47) (serving 6 yr term in Fed prison Danbury, Conn. on charges of destroying draft records) + 5 others indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Kissinger & plotting to blow up the heating terminals of Fed bldgs (Rev. Joseph R. Wenderoth, 35; Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, 30; An- thony Scoblick, 30 - former priest; Eqbal Ahmad, 40 - fellow of Adlai Stev Inst of Public Affairs; Sis- ter Elizabeth McAllister, 31 - of Marymount Col, Tarrytown, NY Jan 25 Charles Manson(36), Susan Atkins (22), Patricia Krenwinkel (23), Leslie Van Houten (21) found guilty/convicted 71 Feb oil prices raised by OPEC for the first time 16,000 South Vietnamese troops march into Laos with massive U.S. air sup- port - "hundreds of thousands protest in Wash & SF" Senate hearings start on army spying on private ci- tizens Mar 1 Bomb explodes in Capitol men's room; Weather Underground claims responsibility "in retaliation for the Laos decision" Mar 8 Supreme Court rules that ob- jection to a particular war is not sufficient grounds for conscientious objection (Guy Gillette & Louis Negal? cases) Mar 11 Puerto Rico: uprising Univ of Puerto Rico Mar 23 Congress votes to lower voting age to 18 Mar 29 Calley convicted Mar 29 Manson + 3 sen- tenced (to death) (after 9 1/2 month trial - long- est in Calif history) spring Abbie Hoffman releases Steal This Book ?? spring Werner Ehrhard (sp?) holds first EST training (yes-1971) Homosexuals march in NY (see Life Dec 71) A 19-23 1000+ Veterans demonstrate against Viet war in Wash D.C., throwing their medals over the Capitol fence Apr 24 200,000 Veterans march - Wash D.C. + SF simultaneous march of 156,000 Apr Retreat from Laos what's the date? Apr First China visit by US journalists since xx & U.S. table tennis team is invited to China Repub. Congressman Paul McCloskey talking of run- ning against Nixon on anti-Viet war platform 71 Apr 26- 50,000 demonstrators (Vets?) in Washington D.C. set up "Algonquin Peace City" (in West Potomac Park), May 1 attempt to blockade govt for a day; 5,000 District police, 1,500 Natl Gd & 8,000 fed troops start evacuating: 7,000 arrested [another source: "20,000 Natl Gd & police, 10,000 paratroopers"] M 3-5 1,200 arrested - final total 12,614 (record) May Amtrak starts operations (182 trains to service 300 cities) May England's former prime minister Harold Wilson says LBJ could have ended the Viet war in Feb 67 May 4 Dollar crisis starts in Europe, as five currencies are freed from parity with US dol- lar May Bobby Seale released after charges of ordering murder of Black Panther Alex Rackley in New Haven dropped, out on bail on 4 year Chicago trial con- tempt charges May 13 "13 Black Panthers acquitted" (is this the same?) May 15 Second anniversary of People's Park demo, "instigated" by Daily Cal, leads to Daily Cal moving off U.C. Berkeley campus May 25 Bobby Seale & Eric- ka Huggins case dismissed (same as second?) May Philip & Daniel Berrigan indicted for "conspiracy to kid- nap" a high govt official ie. the Pres. 71 May Gaskin's caravan arrives in Tennessee May The Last Whole Earth Catalog May French left joins Larzac farmers in protest against French government's planned expansion of military base May Life: Rosie Grier does needlework May Airlines start super cheap flights to Europe 1971 June Demise of Whole Earth Catalog party June 10 Mexico student upris- ings June 11 Alcatraz Indians ousted J 13-15 Pentagon Papers, secret Pentagon history of the Vietnam war, copied by Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, ap- pears in the New York Times June American vets start ad- mitting to US atrocities in Viet US starts disman- tling biological arsenal huh? June Nixon announces he will visit China summer Danish rock fest, Amsterdam scene summer French secretly explode hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific July 3 Jim Morrison, 27, dies in Paris Aug 1 Concert for Bangla Desh: Harrison, Clapton, Leon Russell, Ringo + Dylan, Ravi Shankar (Madison Square Garden) 71? Aug Pir Vilayat sufi retreat at Chamonix, France (?first?) Aug 6 Huey Newton's second manslaughter trial ends in mistrial Aug Marijuana bust on The Farm - Gasking takes responsibility Aug Camden 28 raid draft board in Camden, New Jersey Aug 13 John Len- non & Yoko Ono check in to St. Regis Hotel, NY Aug 15 Nix- on declares 90-day wage/price freeze & takes US off the gold standard Aug 18 Shootout Jackson, Miss: hdqs of Republic of North Africa Aug 21 George Jackson (29) killed during San Quentin escape attempt, while about to face another trial on charges of murdering a white guard Aug 31 Stephen Bingham, 29, lawyer to Jackson, charged with smuggling weapons into prison fall when? Life: high school kids concerned about secu- rity & order (Sara Davidson) 71 Sept Attica Federal Prison: 5 day revolt ends with 1000 state & local police & prison guards storming the prison, 41 prisoners? dead Sept 16 Japan: 5,000 farmers & students battle 5,000 police in demo to prevent govt taking of land for Tokyo Intl Airport at Narita Oct Last LOOK Mag Oct Follow-up to 68 Kerner Commission report says if present trends continue in inner-city racial problems, "most cities by 1980 will be prepon- derantly black & brown, & totally bankrupt" Oct Huey Newton returns to US to begin a new trial Oct 16 E Cleaver press conference in Algiers to announce his return to U.S. (sez Ringolevio) 71 Oct 16 H. Rap Brown, Pres SNCC captured after black bar hold-up, NY (with 3 St. Louis black men including Richard Moore & Eddie Josephs) after 17 mos fugitive (since May 70) Oct drive to enroll 25 million new voters is getting 5 new Democrats to 2 new Repubs, influencing local elections; college towns get uptight Oct 29 Duane Allman killed riding motorcycle Nov 2 18 to 20 year olds vote first time (but which election would this be???) Nov 5 UN votes to seat (Red) China (also seen as Oct 25) Ed Muskie, Dem. running for Pres. Nov 13 Mariner 9 in orbit around Mars Nov Larzac, Fr: 6,000 march to protest expansion of NATO base Nov US pulling out of Vietnam (Nov. 11: 188,300 US soldiers left) under Nixon's "Vietnamization" withdrawal program Dec 2 Dollar dives in reaction to reports that Nixon is considering devaluation (326.76 yen; 3.289 Deutsche marks) Dec 3 War breaks out in Bangladesh Dec 11 Third retrial of Huey Newton ends in mistrial Dec 14 Detective Frank Serpico tells Knapp Commission of widespread police corruption in NY D 17- 18 Dollar devalued 8.57% Dec 26 15 Viet Vets sit-in in- side Statue of Liberty to protest bombing Dec 28 80+ Viet Vets arrested Lincoln Memorial, trying to block en- trance with a human chain Greenpeace formed, Vancouver, Canada Use of DES discontinued after 7 cases of a rare cancer found among women at one Boston hospital (20,000 -> 100,000 women a year were prescribed DES for prevention of miscarriage between 1960 and 1970) 1971 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Sticky Fingers Hendrix: Cry of Love & Rainbow Bridge John Lennon: Imagine *Joni Mitchell: Blue *Carole King ?Tapestry? *Carly Simon *Cat Stevens *Elmerson, Lake & Palmer *Herbie Han- cock *Weather Report *Tyrannosaurus Rex *Earth, Wind & Fire ("Funk") Led Zeppelin "more popular than Beatles": Stairway to Heaven (*Bob Marley & the Wailers: first) Alice Cooper group TV: All In The Family (starts Jan. 12) A Clockwork Orange directed by Kubrick The Last Picture Show Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols) Harold & Maude Klute Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle) Gimme Shelter (Altamont movie) Walka- bout (Nicolas Roeg) ?King of Hearts re-release (is this when?) El Topo (Alexandro Jodorowsky) Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera "worldwide suc- cess" (The Exorcist) Michael Harrington: The Other America focuses awareness on continuing US poverty Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch (US publication) Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (I have this as 69) Carlos Castaneda: A Separate Reality Be Here Now: Baba Ram Dass, Lama Foundation Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Dee Brown (sez EWJ) The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Joseph Chilton Pearce The Massage Book - George Downing Another Roadside Attraction Love Story East West Journal, Brook- line, Massachusetts Vitamin C Hot Pants, men's shoes with heels ?Day-care centers Christiania free city founded in Copenhagen Helen Caldicott begins (successful) campaign to stop nuclear atmos- pheric testing in France Gray Panthers founded 1972 Federal Coastal Zone Management Act passed Airlines re- quired to screen passengers & their luggage to prevent hijackings Over 300,000 black Mississippi- ans, 59% of eligible, registered to vote Terrorist attack at Munich Olympics 1955 prize-winning public housing in St. Louis, Pruitt-Igoe, blown up due to delapidation and 65% unoccupency American Indian Movement (AIM) founded (sez EWJ - maybe only became known to greater pub- lic, see earlier) Erewhon natural foods opens re- tail and wholesale operations on West Coast Venturi & Brown: Learning from Las Vegas marks displacement of modern architectural movement by post-modernism Jan 10 2 black protestors in Baton Rouge killed in shoo- tout with police during demo + 8 wounded (+ 2 white deputies killed) Jan 17 New Jersey Supreme Court ends death penalty Jan 25 Shirley Chisholm (Representative from Brooklyn, NY) becomes first black female to seek major party's Presidential nomination Feb 18 California Supreme Court ends death penalty Feb Life: "Today's high school generation is interested in security, stability, & comfort." 72 F 21- 28 Nixon visits China Feb 23 Angela Davis is released (after 16 months) Feb 24 Daniel Berrigan released after 18 months of 3-year term (for Catonsville 9 xxx); goes to Harrisburg where brother Phil is on trial Feb 28- Angela Davis trial starts, San Jose Mar Rodger McAfee, 33, dairy-farmer in Caruthers, Cal- if., uses farm as collatoral to pay Angela Davis's bail Mar Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passes Congress (by yr end, only 22 states have ratified) Mar? Raymond Yellow Thunder, Sioux, killed, Nebraska Mar 22 13-member National Commission on Marijuana & Drug Abuse recommends legalization of marijuana Mar 27 Soledad Brothers acquitted Mar 30 North Vietnamese troops go south through the DMZ into So Vietnam Apr? Mar y Sol rock fest Puerto Rico 30,000 Apr Demonstrators in Harrisburg, Pa. support Phil Ber- rigan and six co-defendents; Apr 5 Harris- burg 7 trial ends in mistrial after 11 weeks (this was for plotting to kidnap Kissinger & blow up heating xxx ); only P. B. & Sister Elizabeth McAllister declared guilty, and only of smuggling letters in & out of prison Apr 15 Nixon & Canada P.M. Pierre Trudeau sign pact to clean up Great Lakes Apr Heavy US bombing of North Vietnamese entering So Viet A 15-28 New wave of antiwar protests on campuses & near military & defense-industry installations - 100s of arrests across U.S. May? First? Mother Earth News (recheck & add to lista) May 1 Quang Tri captured by North Vietnam May 2 J. Edgar Hoover dies (after 48 yrs as only Director of FBI) May Nixon talks in Moscow, signs landmark nuclear arms pact May 8 bombing of Hanoi & Haiphong (Harbor?) May Univ of Michigan protest against ROTC and protests on dozens of US campuses against the renewed bombing of N Viet i.e. Colombia May 11 District/Fed Appeals Court overturns Chicago Seven (& 2 attorneys)'s contempt sentences & orders trials on Hoffman's citations May 15 George Wallace shot, Wash D.C. & paralyzed, drops out of presidential race May 18 Phil Berrigan back to jail (Danbury) to complete 6 year term for destruction of draft records in Baltimore & Catonsville, Md. May when? Retreat in Vietnam Davis: protestors block train carrying mil- itary supplies May 21 Catholic Lithuanian youth immolates self -> week of uprisings vs Soviet troops June 4 Angela Davis acquitted (13 week trial) June 14 EPA bans DDT 1972 June 17 Five men caught breaking into the Watergate Hotel Demo- cratic campaign headquarters: director of security for CREEP + 4 others ?with electronic eavesdrop equipment June 23 Life: photos of S. Viet children running from napalm June Expo '72 evangelist week-long rally in Texas 80,000 Jl 1-4 First Rainbow Gathering, Strawberry Lake, Colorado Aug Nixon says investigation by White House counsel John Dean revealed no administration officials involved in Watergate break-in Aug Democratic convention held in Miami due to threat of demonstrations in San Diego Aug 11 Last U.S. military unit in Vietnam withdrawn Aug 12 B-52s heaviest bombing of N Viet Sept 5 Arabs kill Israeli ath- letes at Munich Olympics Oct Nixon & Gromyko sign arms limitation treaty Oct Kissinger: "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam US negotiating a settlement that would withdraw Amer troops but leave revolutionary troops, until set-up of a newly-elected government; Saigon government refuses to agree Oct 18 Congress passes the Clean Water Act over Nixon's veto Nov 2 500 AmerInds sit-in at BIA hdqs, Wash (Trail of Broken Treaties) month? California voters adopt coastal protection Nov 7 Mob figure Meyer Lansky, 71, arrested Miami Nov 7 7th Circuit Court of Ap- peals reverses convictions of last 5 of Chicago Seven 72 Nov Nixon defeats McGovern (re-election) (Also ran: Wallace, Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Edmund Muskie, John Lindsay, Shirley Chisholm) [third "People's Party"] 18-20 year olds first presiden- tial vote (Nov 14 Stock Market: Dow Jones tops 1,000 first time) Nov 16 Two black students killed by buckshot Baton Rouge, La Southern Univ as police clearing demos from admin bldg (Note: see Jan 10, 72) Nov 29 Phil Berrigan parolled Dec Nixon makes last at- tempt to get North Vietnam to submit: 18 days of "carpet" bombing of homes, hospitals, and civilians of Hanoi & Haiphong through Christmas; first B-52 pilots refuse to fly missions Dec 29 last Life Magazine after 36 years) (when did People Mag start?) Dec 30 Nixon orders end to bombing 1972 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Exile on Main St and sum- mer tour Eric Clapton with Derek & the Dominoes McCartney touring with Wings *David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust Glitter Rock - New York *Lou Reed (from Velvet Underground): first solo *Blue Oyster Cult (Heavy Metal) *Uri- ah Heep (Heavy Metal) *Alice Cooper (Heavy Metal) *Yes Rare Earth? *Leon Russell: first solo *Chick Corea with Return to Forever *Eno *Fairport Convention (from UK) *Joni Mitchell: For the Roses *Bonnie Raitt *Steely Dan *Jackson Browne *Eagles Curtis Mayfield Don McLean: American Pie Bette Midler Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with country music stars: Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Godfather (Coppola) (first time regular movie prices are raised to over 4 dollars) Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci) Play It Again, Sam & Everything ... Sex - Woody Al- len Brother Sun, Sister Moon (St. Francis of As- sisi) Jodorowsky working on The Holy Mountain Grease "50s revival" Godspell Deliverance Fritz the Cat Deep Throat (seized Aug 18, ruled obscene Mar 73) Ms. Magazine starts (actually Dec. 71) I.F. Stone stops publishing The Weekly The Vegetarian Epicure (I) - The Joy of Sex - Alex Comfort The Massage Book - George Downing (I have this as 71) The Alexander Technique - Wilfred Barlow Carlos Castaneda: Journey to Ixtlan Mandala - Jose & Miriam Arguelles Ringolevio - Emmett Grogan Jonathan Livingston Seagull (I have this as 70) (saw again as 72) Watership Down - Richard Adams The Foxfire Book published, a compilation of re- prints from quarterly Foxfire magazine, a teenage staff's reports on dying folk customs and arts of the Georgia Appalachians Joan Baez takes a year off to volunteer for Amnesty Intl Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess introduces the idea of deep ecology bikes "szechwan food" "below the knee hemlines" "use of Ms" Mark Spitz (Munich Olympics) & that Russian gym- nast? Burt Reynolds "first" nude male portrait in Cosmopolitan 1973 Water- gate investigation continues "Baby Bust" (birth rate drop) First time more woman than men in col- lege (50.3%) Mississippi leads the south with 145 elected black officeholder (tho only 1 black leg- islative representative) when? Endangered Species Act Arab-Israeli war followed by Arab oil embargo & en- ergy crunch, gas lines, & the go ahead to drill for oil in Alaska Alaska Pipeline built 73-75 Hoedads of Oregon formed Chipko move- ment starts in Himalayas Last year of draft (ended June 30), army becomes volunteer ?Maharaj Ji event at Houston Astrodome Pig By The Tail, first Ameri- can charcuterie, opens in Berkeley -> California Cuisine movement when? Hayden marries Fonda when? Alan Watts dies Rod Hackney, young architect writing PhD at Manchester University, who had organized neighbors in Macclesfield to oppose area's demolition, gets improvement grants from town council for 34 of houses - in 1975 wins Good Design in Housing Award from U.K. Dept of the En- vironment Jan 100,000 demonstrate at Nixon's inaugural Jan 7 Sniper shoots 6 from atop Johnson's Motor Lodge, New Orle- ans Jan 11 Nixon ends 17 month wage-price controls Jan 22 Supreme Court: Roe vs. Wade strikes down ex- isting state anti-abortion laws Jan 22 LBJ dies in Texas Jan 23 Nixon announces all American troops to be out of Vietnam in 60 days 73 Jan 27 Vietnam ceasefire agreement with US (Paris) (the same agreement as was drafted the previous October) (23,000 American troops still left in Vietnam) and announcement of? draft end 3 million Americans are enlisted in the military 55,000 have died in the Vietnam war Great Exp: 58,000 dead / 153,000 wounded / 35,000 widows & orphans created 275,000 Americans experience a death in their fami- ly 1.4 million saw someone in their family wounded 6.5 million served in armed forces, 1 mill+ saw combat Jan 30 James W. McCord & G. Gordon Liddy of Nixon's re-election committee, found guilty of Watergate burglary & wiretap attempt Feb 12 Second dollar devalua- tion in 14 months - 10% Feb 14 Nixon: floating exchange rate early Stock Market starts drop F 16-22 Student uprisings in Greece 73 Feb 28 250 AmerInds (AIM) occupy Wounded Knee (to May 8) early Custer, South Dakota AIM courthouse protest Mr 1-19 Dollar crisis in Europe Mar 6 Nixon: gas & oil price controls Mar 23 Judge Sirica reveals letter from McCord saying he & others were pressured to plead guilty & commit perjury to avoid implicating others in Watergate Mar 29 Nixon declares meat price controls to stave off housewives meat boycott set to start April 1 Mar 29 Last American troops withdrawn from Vietnam Mar 29 H. Rapp Brown (+ 3 others?) convicted for Oct. 16,71 rob- bery 73 A 16-17 US bombs Laos Apr 30 Nixon accepts resignation of H.R. Haldeman & John Ehrlichman & fires John Dean May 10 John Mitchell & Maurice Stans, former Nixon Cabinet members, & financier Robert Vesco indicated for Vesco's illegal 200,000 dollar contribution to Nixon campaign May 11 Daniel Ellsberg charges dropped May 15 Bobby Seale's campaign for Oakland mayor ends in defeat May 20 17 of Camden 28 found not guilty (of destroying draft files) May 29 Tom? Bradley elected in Los Angeles (first black mayor) 1973 Jn 25- 29 John Dean testifies in front of Senate Select Committee, indicting himself, Nixon, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & others, & revealing the use of "hush money" and an "enemies list" Jn 13 Nixon declares 60 day retail price freeze July 16 Nixon's secret recording system is exposed July 26 Nixon defies prosecutors' subpoenas of his tapes & appeals his case until October 19 Aug 15 US bombing of Cambodia ends Aug 31 Gainsville 8 (veterans) acquitted Apr- Sept: ROTC unable to meet quota of off- icers for six months in a row Sept Chile coup overthrows Salvador Allende Sept 11 Allende killed Sept Jim Croce dies Sept Lennon to LA with May Pang & Spector sessions Oct Oil talks fail & various OPEC countries cut off oil deliveries to other countries, including U.S., causing shortages (to March 74) Oct retrial of Chicago 7 on contempt charges; of 159 charges, only 13 upheld - ?all released? Oct 10 Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President Oct 20 "Saturday Night Massacre": Nixon fires special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Attorney General Elliot Richardson & Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resign. Oct 23 Eight impeachment resolutions introduced in the House Nov 3 Froines & Weiner of Chicago Seven acquitted of contempt charges. Nov 7 Congress finally (after 9 at- tempts) passes War Powers legislation, over Nixon's veto - limits President's power to commit armed forces to hostilities abroad without Congressional approval Nov 10 Stock Market drops 24.4 points Nov 16 Nixon signs bill to build Alaska pipeline Nov 19 Stock Market drops 28.67 points Nov 21 Inexplicable 18 1/2 minute gap discovered in subpoened tape Nov 26 Stock Market drops 29.05 points, to lowest in 11 years (since May 28, 62 JFK confrontation with steel in- dustry) Nov 30 OPEC quadruples oil prices (?was 2 dollars/barrel) ?so 8 dollars/barrel? Dec 4 Dellinger, Rubin, & Hoffman of Chicago Seven, and their attorney William Kunstler, found guilty of contempt charges levied at them by Judge Hoffman, but given no further sentence. Davis, Hayden, and attorney Leonard Weinglass acquitted of contempt charges. Dec 31 6- month oil embargo starts, recession 1973 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Goat's Head Soup Dylan: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Lennon: Mind Games Harrison: Living in the Material World McCartney: Band on the Run Who: Quadrophenia (the record); movie 78 *ZZ Top (Heavy Metal) *Genesis *Lynyrd Skynyrd *Poco (w Richie Furay & Jim Messina from Buffalo Springfield) The Harder They Come with Jimmy Cliff *Springsteen: first Tom Waits: first Muldaur Bergman: Cries & Whispers & Scenes From a Marriage The Last Detail (wasn't this the Nicholson one?) The Paper Chase American Graffiti (The Exorcist) (Sat Night Livers at the Village Gate) Fear of Flying - Erica Jong Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown (Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon) Small Is Beautiful (Economics as if People Mat- tered) - E. F. Schumacher Cut- ting Through Spiritual Materialism - Chogyam Trungpa The Well Body Book - Hal Bennett The Joy of Sex - ? Handmade Houses (A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art) - Boericke & Shapiro Levi's Denim contest (Mother Earth's Hassle-Free Indoor Plant Book - Lynn & Joel Rapp) Mother Earth News started? Last year of the draft Watergate in- vestigations Dungeons & Dragons getting popular 1974 Inf- lation speeds up but ?unemployment starts = Great Stagflation of 1973-75 (U.S.) Worldwide Stagflation of 1974-76 Senate Watergate hearings First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed Pinochet rule starts "Boldt" deci- sion, Washington state: Warm Springs, Yakima, Uma- tilla & Nez Perce tribes entitled to take up to half salmon & steelhead runs from the Columbia River based on 1855 treaty First "Witkars" (white cars for free use within the city) put into use in Amsterdam Abbie Hoffman (facing cocaine charge) goes undrgrd Joanne Little accused of murd- er of killing jailer (in self-defense against rape) (acquitted Aug 15, 75) ?Portugal coup ends W. Europe's oldest dictatorship Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy" Garrison Keillor? starts Prairie Home Companion Gas shortages get worse through Mar 19 Dalkon shield sales end Briarpatch Network, informal organization of small businesses practicing openness, honesty, service, and sharing, founded Nairopa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, founded Jan 30 Dylan at Mad Sq Gdn - starts first tour in 8 years Feb 4 Patty Hearst, 19, kidnapped by the SLA Mar Pentagon requests additional $474 million for Saigon military aid; Congress (House) denies fund- ing request for the first time since the 1964 Ton- kin Gulf resolution Apr 1 Jane Fonda arrives in Vietnam on second visit Apr 15 Patty Hearst & 8 others rob SF bank May Mohawks establish Ganienkah settlement in Adirondack Mountains Park, NY 74 June Nature publishes Sherwood Rowlands of U.C. Irvine's pioneer research on depletion of the ozone layer July 30 Watergate: House Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of impeachment July 30 Water- gate: Supreme Court upholds subpoena on Nixon tapes. Nixon turns them over July 30 & Aug 5. Aug Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics founded in Boulder by Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman Aug 5 Watergate: Tape transcripts indicate Nixon impeded the investigation Aug 8&9 Nixon resigns, Ford sworn in ?Springstein first played the Roxy? Sept Ford grants amnesty to draft evaders (Sept Green Revolution plan announced) Sept 16 US Dist Ct dismisses all charges against Banks & Means for Wounded Knee takeover (Oct WE Epilog) Oct US airlift of military supplies to Cambodia's Lon Nol regime suspended until March Oct 7 John Lennon finally given legal status to stay in the US (after 3 year legal battle) Nov Jerry Brown elected Gov of Calif (1974-1982) N 5-16 World Food Conference, Rome (Lappe?) Nov 13 Karen Silkwood, investigating Kerr-McGee xxx, killed in controversial auto accident Nov 20 US files anti-trust suit against AT&T Nov 21 Congress overrides Ford's veto to pass the Freedom of Information Act 1974 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING RS: Only Rock & Roll *Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark & Miles of Aisles Lennon: Walls & Bridges Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Blvd (August) *Queen (Heavy Metal) *Gentle Giant *Electric Light Orchestra *Germany: Tangerine Dream *Toots & The Maytals: first Maria Muldaur Dylan: Planet Waves & Blood on the Tracks (which was first?) 74-75 Rol- ling Thunder Revue tour TV: (Kojak) Chinatown (Monty Python & the Holy Grail) Lenny (w Dustin Hoffman) Equus Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities The Conversation (Coppola) is this the master plot one? no (The Sting) Robert Pirsig: Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Repair Carlos Castaneda: Tales of Power The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuin The Power Broker - Robert Caro Spiritual Community Guide A Pilgrim's Guide to Planet Earth The Connection Native Funk & Flash - Jacopetti How to Grow More Vegetables . . . - J Jeavons The Gardener's Catalogue Country Fur- niture Gary Snyder - Turtle Island Rolling Thunder - Doug Boyd New Age Journal founded by East West Journal editor Robert Hargrove, advertising director Eric Utne, and other staff CoEvolution Quarterly All the President's Men (the book) Fear of Flying Streak- ing (yes) Answering machines Digital watches People Magazine started (Feb) Isle of Calif mural behind SaMo post office (LA Fine Arts Squad) Farallones Institute founded 1975 Inf- lation + Highest unemployment since the thirties (Whip Inflation Now - according to Washington mag) Also high interest rates Also ?in- surance rates? triple draft registration is suspended Sen Frank Church launches investigation which reveals CIA conducted illegal surveillance of American citizens & plotted to assassinate foreign leaders i.e. Castro Sam Giancana, Mafia chieftain, murdered in his Chicago home, following reports of his involvement in CIA Castro plot Hoffa disappears Former United Mine Workers pres Tony Boyle starts jail sentence for ordering murder of union opponent Joseph Yablonski, wife & daughter Calif passes Agricultural Labor Relations Act (grants farm workers right to collective bargain- ing, establishes a minimum wage, & abolishes child labor in the fields) New York City almost goes bankrupt (75-76) Tom Donahue, founder of progressive? radio, dies Lennon goes into seclu- sion for five years Bunny Wailer goes into seclu- sion for 7 1/2 Z Budapest arrested for tarot read- ing (9 years to Supreme Court win) Rolling Thunder Revue (into Jan at least) Frances Moore Lappe & Joseph Collins start IFDP Airlines start to be deregulated -> cheaper fares Franco dies (Spain) (Nov 20) - 36 years dictator Dictatorship ends in Greece (74? 75?) ?World wide famines Architect Frank Gehry creates second "deconstructivist" style house (LA?); Netherlands designers Koolhaas and Zenghelis also do first deconstructivist buildings Jan 1 Menominee Indians seize unused Gresham, Wisconsin Roman Catholic novitiate (to Feb 4, when church promises to deed it to them for a tribal hospital) Jan Vondel Park, Amsterdam closed to camping Jan 7 Major auto producers announce rebates Apr 17 Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia (after 5 year war) (When does slaughter start) Apr 25 Moderates (Socialists & Popu- lar Democrats) win the first free elections in Por- tugal in over 50 years A 30-My "Fall of Saigon": North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon May Pathet Lao begin takeover of Laos May 1 Stock Market commissions deregu- lated, starting Stock Market shake-out May 27 Alaska legalizes home use of marijuana