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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILLIAM D. BERG...
...subcommittee ordered the protest leaders and their attorneys ousted from the room when they stood to stage a silent protest against the hearings. Police ushered them out without resistance. No immediate arrests were made, although the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Richard Ichord, (D-Mo.) warned the protestors they could be charged with trying to disrupt Congress. He told their attorneys they could be cited for contempt...
...marked by the same childhood sense of play. John was constantly manipulating the world, around him, playing pranks, playing with words, putting people on. Even his famous Teddy-boy (juvenile delinquent) phrase was a bit of a put-on: "I was imitating Teds, pretending to be one...If I'd met a proper Ted I'd have been shit scared...
...meet the outside world, his attitude was always ironic, bitterly, playful. "He was outrageous and said things people would be scared to say. He could be very cruel...he would go Boo in front of old people. And if he saw anyone who was crippled or deformed, he'd make loud remarks, like 'Some people will do anything to get out of the army...
...occasion of their first visit to America, "Billy Graham said he'd broken his strict rule and watched television on the Sabbath just to see them. 'They're a passing phase,' he said. 'All are symptoms of the uncertaintly of the times and the confusion about us.' "Oddly prophetic on Graham's part, for the rock and roll army was just about to be born, and the Beatles (touring phase) were to be the midwives. A generation of kids was about to be turned on to their own youth, their beauty and their energy. And they were going to notice...