Tag Archives: Counter-Culture

Mitch: Chicago 1968: The Democratic Convention

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Derik Schneider

. Source:FreeState MD 1968 is when the Democratic Party changed and no longer became a Northeastern progressive party with a Southern coalition. Made up of people who basically make up the Religious-Right and Neoconservative wing of the Republican Party today. … Continue reading →

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EFAN: Video: George McGovern’s 1972 Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Derik Schneider

EFAN: Video: George McGovern’s 1972 Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, who served a total of twenty-two years in Congress. Served in the House of Representatives from 1957-61, before serving in the Kennedy Administration from 1961-63, then … Continue reading →

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Merv Griffin Show: U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy Interview: Civil Unrest, Vietnam War (1967)

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Derik Schneider

Source:The Daily Journal Bobby Kennedy who wasn’t a Baby Boomer, more of a depression baby, doing a good job speaking for the Baby Boom generation. Not the whole generation, but certainly the New Left that came of age in the … Continue reading →

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Jack Hammond: Students For a Democratic Society- To Change The World

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Derik Schneider

Source:The Daily Journal I actually believe as a current affairs blogger that todays Occupy Wall Street movement was born in the 1960s as part of what was called the New-Left. Because if you look at where Students For a Democratic … Continue reading →

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The Book Archive: The 1960s and 1970s Protest Movement Against Richard Nixon: David Dellinger & Tom Hayden

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Derik Schneider

Source:The Daily Journal The Left, which is a diverse movement of Liberals such as myself who are center-left and more Progressive to Socialist Leftists in America, have been around a long time. And the Progressives emerged in the Progressive Era … Continue reading →

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Mike Gardner: NBC News Lyndon Johnson’s Last Day as President in 1969

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Derik Schneider

Source: The Daily Journal I’m guessing Lyndon Johnson was ready to leave the presidency and had enough. 1966, was a really rough year for President Johnson and the Johnson Presidency. House Democrats, lose over forty seats in the House and … Continue reading →

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CBS News 1968, A Year That Changed America

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Erik Schneider

. Source:The Daily Press I think one thing that separates America and makes us stronger than anyone else is that we can go through a year like 1968 and get through it and survive it. And still remain one country, … Continue reading →

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Passionate Patriots: 1968 DNC Nightmare in Chicago

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Erik Schneider

. Source:FRS FreeState The Democratic Party cost themselves the presidential election of 1968 and a chance to win the White House for a third straight time and 8-10 presidential elections, going back to 1932 with FDR. To go along with … Continue reading →

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