Word: 1960s
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...think the removal of the three most progressive leaders of the '60s during a time of bitterness and dissension and civil war in this country is very much tied into the assassination. I use the term civil war in its full implications, going back to the 1960s, where we were divided between hawks and doves, hippies and straights. These three leaders were pulling out of the war in Vietnam and shaking up the country. Civil rights, the cold war itself, everything was in question. There's no doubt that these three killings are linked, and it worked. That's what...
...1940s, after World War II. It's also the continuation of the covert state, the invisible government that operates in this country and seems to be an unelected parallel government to our legitimate government. The CIA and military intelligence all got out of hand somewhere in the 1960s. It suddenly reached another level, where the concept of assassination -- the wet affair, liquidation -- became the vogue...
Nestled along the Mississippi River near where the borders of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin converge, Dubuque is an unlikely candidate for social engineering. Of 58,000 residents, fewer than 1,000 are minorities, only one- third of them black. The city, says Mayor James Brady, "missed the 1960s. People can go all their lives without seeing a black person." That suits ; local white supremacists like Bill McDermott just fine. Says he: "Why should our town be destroyed by black riots and crime...
...late 1960s, Kwanzaa was celebrated mainly by the more radical members of the black-nationalist community. But now, says the Rev. Willie Wilson, pastor at Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington, "you find a lot of people trying to return to their roots and cultural values." Each year Wilson's church holds nightly Kwanzaa observances that culminate in a ball, which now draws about 1,000 participants. No one knows precisely how many people observe Kwanzaa, but its biggest boosters are middle-class professionals seeking to give their children a sense of black pride. "My children grew...
...appropriate perspective of the motorcade, the sixth floor of an adjacent building. Stone also filmed at the Dallas police headquarters, where Jack Ruby killed Oswald. "The police were very cooperative," says production designer Victor Kempster. "They let us strip out computers in the offices and put in 1960s furniture. That included changing doorways to fit the film footage...