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Wayne L.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject: Woodstock defined the 60's more than Kennedy & King. |
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| Woodstock defined the 60's more than the Kennedy/King assassinations despite being highly overrated because it put the decade in perspective musically, culturally & politically even though most historians won't admit it. It's just a legendary rock festival back in August of 69 with classic performances by the Who, Ten Years After, Country Joe & The Fish, CSN&Y & Jimi Hendrix along with more than 300, 000 hippies. JFK & MLK were powerful political figures in the sixties who left their mark on the baby boomers at the time as well as generations but they're overrated in history while Woodstock was a defining event for the youth pop culture in music, fashion & attitude. |
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Xenophen
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| So you are suggesting that a rock concert, filled with drugs and high college studnets, and draft dodgers defined the 60s more than King. I could see Kennedy, but not King. King not only defined a decade, but started something that would change Americans forever and at least free a people who had suffered oppression for far too long. I dont see that. |
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CaptainDankNuggets
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| Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| I totally agree except for the part about king |
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Jehan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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Woodstock was a gathering of hippies. Kennedy was an overrated president who needed two bullets to get anything done. King was a civil rights leader who defined the generation and effect this country to today.
In essence, you're right about Kennedy, but wrong about King and Woodstock. |
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