Tag Archives: 1966

The New Yorker: Douglas Watt: ‘The Glittering, Corrosive Humor of Lenny Bruce’

“Early in 1966, the entertainer Lenny Bruce, who died in the midsummer of that year at the age of forty from a self-administered overdose of morphine, gave his next-to-last public performance, at the Berkeley Community Theatre, a large auditorium near … Continue reading

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Out Of The Past: Raquel Stecher- ‘Madame X (1966) Starring Lana Turner

Source:The New Democrat  “Directed by David Lowell Rich, Madame X (1966) is one in a long line of frothy soap operas that delivers a good old-fashioned sob story. This film pulls out all the stops and leaves nothing behind in … Continue reading

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Barry Goldwater- The Future of Conservatism (1966)

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater (Republican, Arizona) on Firing Line With William F. Buckley, in 1966. Source:The New Democrat “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Future of Conservatism. Episode 016, Recorded on June … Continue reading

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David Von Pein: The Age of Kennedy: NBC White Paper (1966)

Source:The New Democrat  John F. Kennedy’s early years as an adult are not very impressive. He was in the U.S. Navy for a few years during World War II and got out in 1945 to and then ran for the … Continue reading

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CSPAN: John Birch Society- Anarchy U.S.A. (1966)

Source:CSPAN– A John Birch Society film about the 1960s civil rights movement. Source:The New Democrat “Anarchy U.S.A. This anti-communism film, produced in 1966 by the John Birch Society, uses narration and news footage to detail the methods of communist revolutionaries … Continue reading

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: The Future of The GOP With Richard Nixon (1966)

Source:The New Democrat  This is where Richard Nixon rebuilt his political career as someone who can not only raise a lot of money, but build up a lot of support not just for himself, but for candidates he endorsed and … Continue reading

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Hal 15 Greer: 1965-66 Baltimore Bullets: The Tall Men of Baltimore

Source:The New Democrat  The reason the Bullets left Baltimore in 1973, I believe, for Washington is the same reason Baltimore doesn’t have an NBA franchise now of their own:  their arena. They didn’t have a modern major league sports arena … Continue reading

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Dame Elizabeth Taylor: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with the great Taylor/Burton combo is supposed to be a drama but  I always laugh throughout this movie, which I’ve seen now four or five times and saw again over the weekend. I’ve been thinking … Continue reading

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NFL Films: NFL 1966- The Atlanta Falcons First Campaign

Source:The Daily Press The 1966 Atlanta Falcons I guess could go down as one of the worst NFL expansion teams of all-time. Especially if you consider that they gave up over thirty-one points a game in the mid-1960s NFL where … Continue reading

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CBS Sports: Recap of NFL 1966

Source:The Daily Press 1966 was a huge transition year for the NFL because it was the first season of the Super Bowl to decide who was the pro football champion of America, not the world. The championship game between the … Continue reading

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