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1969

The year that I entered law school was a helluva year. 1969 was a year filled with rock concerts, race riots, anti-war demonstrations, and other notable events. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for the assassination of RFK. The massacre of Vietnamese civilians occurred at My Lai. Teddy Kennedy pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident at Chappaquiddick where Mary Jo Kopechne died. The Manson family committed the Tate-LaBianca murders. The Jets beat the Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III.
“Sesame Street” premiered on PBS. So did Richard Nixon, who was inaugurated on Jan 20. Millions protested the Vietnam war all over the country in 1969, the year the U.S. population reached 200 million. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in upstate New York.
My wife and I had gotten married the year before, another tumultuous year. The times were incredible, filled with drugs and uncertainty. We listened to Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Doors.

I figured out that law school was the opposite of sex: even when it’s good it’s lousy. Because I was vociferously anti-war in a class of conservative rightists, one day I found scrawled on the bathroom wall in the law school that I was a Commie. I published an anonymous law school newsletter making fun of the pretentious law review and the law professors.
We entered the Seventies with a future of unknowns but at least we survived 1969.

posted on Mar 20, 2013 9:13 AM ()

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I was an avid fan in the 60s -- did the team math every day to see who was in the lead. But that was the 60s. I follow no team sports now. Never followed football (I don't count the highschool games when I was in the marching band and went to all the games and never knew what was going on). I like individual sports -- like the Oympics contests.
comment by tealstar on Mar 24, 2013 4:31 AM ()
I know those names. I thought Joplin's style of singing sounded like someone straining at stool. I remember the Mets, was an avid fan, rejoiced when they won the series. Could name all the players/numbers/positions and recite the play-by-play from significant games.
comment by tealstar on Mar 22, 2013 5:50 AM ()
Why, Teal, I didn't know that you were a baseball fan! Do you have a poster of Marvelous Marv' on your wall too?
reply by steeve on Mar 22, 2013 7:28 AM ()
It was also my first wedding year. 68 and 69 were incredible years.
comment by jondude on Mar 21, 2013 5:04 AM ()
I wish I still had my '67 Triumph motorcycle. We took our honeymoon on it.
reply by steeve on Mar 21, 2013 7:53 AM ()
A blog about 1969 without a mention of The Amazing Mets? Blasphemous! It was also my high school's last winning season in football until the current millennium.
comment by miker on Mar 20, 2013 8:52 PM ()
Dang, how could I have forgotten the Amazing Mets and my favorite player, their manager, Gil Hodges??!!
reply by steeve on Mar 21, 2013 7:51 AM ()
Time flies so quickly - I didn't realize ALL those things happened in that particular year. Compared to today's information saturation, the way news was disseminated back then was like hieroglyphics on the side of a pyramid.
comment by troutbend on Mar 20, 2013 3:51 PM ()
When I think back to those times, it doesn't even seem real. It is downright S-C-A-R-Y.
reply by steeve on Mar 21, 2013 7:54 AM ()
Oh to have been at woodstock! Leonard Cohen was my personal favorite.
comment by elderjane on Mar 20, 2013 3:50 PM ()
I would have loved to have been there.
reply by steeve on Mar 21, 2013 7:55 AM ()

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