For a myriad of reasons, the 1960s have fascinated Americans since the decade closed almost fifty years ago. So many major political, cultural and global events occurred during those ten years it is difficult to keep them all straight.
This website provides sixty images of sixty important events (people etc.) from the decade.
For this week's blog, scroll through the sixty images. (Some are more serious than others).
Choose two of the images to further research. Then, write 100 words for each of the images you chose. (Total of 200 words)
This is a first-come-first-served type assignment. So, be sure to post your blog quickly in order to get the images you want.
This blog is due by Sunday 11:59PM on March 19th.
For my first picture I picked the death of Marilyn Monroe On August 5, 1962. She was a movie actress and rumored to have had an affair with president JFK. "Supposedly she was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were scarrered around her room." After a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was “caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.” As a star, fame affected her as it does most people, she was under the constant care of a psychiatrist. She was Increasingly erratic in the last months of her life, and she lived as a virtual recluse in her home in LA. For my second picture I picked the Beatles releasing their first album, "please please me" On March 22, 1963 in the U.K. "Though the songs themselves were short—each side of the album was about 16 minutes long—the impact was huge. The album had to be recorded quickly in order to capitalize on the success of the “Please Please Me” single, which had been riding high on the charts for two months. Producer George Martin booked two consecutive studio sessions at EMI Studios on Abbey Road, starting at 10 a.m. on a Monday morning. They ran long, so Martin booked a third. They wrapped up “Twist and Shout” just as their studio time expired at 10:45 p.m." (254)
ReplyDeleteI chose the Spider-Man arrives picture because it was the first time spider man was published and it was a strip. Spider man is now one of the most famous super hero in all of the country if not the world and this was the beginning of that. In the picture it talks about teenagers and really appeals to that audience which was smart because these were kids with money with nothing to do. Also in the picture it is advertising another spider man comic book yet to come so this is a very Iconic photo. The also use a catchy slogan introducing marvel. 104
ReplyDeleteThe picture of buzz aldrin on the moon is an iconic mom Kent because it was the final and realization of the space reader Kennedy had started, this is a moment of pride for the American people. It also showed the soviets how advanced we were and that we beat them to the moon it met former president kennedys goal to finish the space race before the end of the decade. Can you just imagine how amazed you personally you would be when you thought going to the moon was impossible especially before the end of the decade and we ended up being the first country to do so, just pure amazement. (109)
ReplyDeleteFor my first picture I chose the asassination of john f Kennedy. This was a new thing at the time and it hit our country hard, not saying that it would if it happened today but stuff like this happens more than before. The world has gotten a lot more dangerous and when this happened it made people a little more scared because they didn't know what was going to happen next. Also because of this assaination it probably tigented up security across the country to prevent a reaccurence of this happening again.
ReplyDeleteSomething that happened before this was the assaniation of marcher king junior. What I like most about him is how he speakers his mind at this time. His rece is being judeged by everybody yet he has the courage to get up and protest and give the people hope. He also was Asassinated but I don't think it was taken like later times when Kennedy was killed. I don't think it's because of him being an African American but it sure wouldn't surprise me if that's why. He was loved by not only African Americans but some white people liked him and he is even honored today in and outside of the classroom.
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For my first one I did the Greensboro four and it was about four African American that went to North Carolina A&T state and they went to a diner called Woolworth. They orderd food there and wanted to prove that they were customers so they kept their receipts but the problem was it was a all white diner but they remained seated. The police was contacted about the situation and came quick as possible. They couldn't do anything beacuse they weren't provoking anyone. It showed on how firm they were in what they were doing and it showed they stood together there that day.
ReplyDeleteThe laser was invented on May 16,1960 at the Hughes reaseach laboratory in California by shining a high power flash lamp on a ruby rod with silver-coated surfaces. He promptly submitted a short report on the week to the journal Physcial Review letters, but the editor turned it down. Some have thought this was receiving too many papers the longer wavelength predecessors of the laser-had announced that any further papers would be turned down. That's need to relevant because lasers are too big and to intimidating to show how much power they can obliterated anything and everything.
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The first picture I chose talked about the first interactive video game. Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students (Steve Russell, Martin "Shag" Graets, Alan Kotok) created the video game called "Spacewar" in 1962. The game has two spaceships against each other that are both orbiting a central star. It said that getting the orbit to respond to player actions in real time was a challenge, given the limited power, but Russell credited MIT colleague Dan Edwards with finding a way. At the time, there still wasn't enough power to apply gravity to all of the weapons, so Russell said that they made some of the weapons to where they weren't "supposed to be" affected by gravity. (116)
ReplyDeleteThe second picture I chose was talking about the first ever James Bond movie created in 1962. A description of the movie states: "a resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program." One of the main actors is Sean Connery. Connery went on to be in six more James Bond movies. Throughout the years, these movies have been very popular and successful. The last James Bond film he starred in was a self mocking reference to his past statements that he had finished with the Bond franchise. (103)
On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers a civil rights activist and secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi was shot in the back while walking up to his house. His two small children witnessed his murder In his arms were a pile of tee-shirts that said "Jim Crow Must Go." The gun that killed Evers was found with fingerprints and the suspect white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was arrested. After his release Beckwith was reported to have bragged about the murder at a Klan rally. His life in 1967 Beckwith ran for lieutenant governor of Mississippi placing fifth among the six candidates (102 words)
ReplyDeleteFour young girls attending Sunday school—Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins, aged 11 to 14—were killed when a bomb exploded at the church. Twenty others were injured. The church was a center for civil rights meetings, and just a few days earlier, courts had ordered the desegregation of Birmingham's schools. Bobby Frank Cherry, a demolitions expert, and three other white supremacists—Robert Chambliss, Thomas Blanton, and Herman Cash were charged with murder two years after the bombing. This bombing was very shocking to the black community and dozens of people were killed or injured. The same names were mentioned in a novel called Watsons go to birmingham.(110 words)
The first birth control pill, Enovid, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on June 23, 1960. It was the first of its kind with many more like it to follow. Earlier forms of birth control weren't as effective as the pill was going to be. The pill changed that way people viewed birth control, and changed the lives of many girls and women. Not only is the pill used for pregnancy prevention, we now know that it can also be used to treat severe menstrual periods, severe acne, and even migraines. Enovid changed the lives of female health patients then, and even now. (105)
ReplyDeleteIn 1963, Edwin Land introduced the first instant-color film. The president and cofounder of Polaroid changed the photography industry forever. After living in a time where life was only viewed in black and white, this creation helped people everywhere start to see things in color. Things began to become more realistic to others, and we finally began to see things as they truly were. Now that we look back, it's easier to see what life was truly like in the 1960's because of color. Color depicts and expresses so much in a photograph that not even words or actions could depict. So many people have color photographs to thank for being able to keep and savor memories for times to come. (121)
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I chose Spider-Man because he is such a big time super hero nowadays to all of us and he started his era during this time period. Spider-Man is a unique character super hero that has won over a lot of hearts. Interestingly as well he was also a teen which was big for his time considering the rise of teenagers going on during this era. The second one I chose was the debate between the two future presidents in John F. Kennidy and president Richard M. Nixon. I went back and looked a little bit of this up and interesting about this was that camera makeup was just becoming major during this time. This debate was a win for Kennidy because he wore the makeup making him appear better on tv while Nixon refused and looked bleached out by the camera. He would go on to lose to Kennidy and many thought that as one reason. My final photo is of James Bond. I chose bond for how major of a figure he is and how when everyone thinks of a spy nowadays they think of bond. Also these films were big on the Cold War which was a very huge event going in throughout the entire 60s. (206)
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