1969: The Year Everything Changed

by Rob Kirkpatrick

Winter”s Children

1. Nixon”s Coming – Cambodia bombing

2. Something in the Air – New right and new Left

3. The New Sounds – MC5, Crazy Horse, Led Zeppelin

4. Super Jets – Joe Namath

5. The American Family – Kennedy, organized crime, Portnoy

Revolution in Springtime

6. America Undressed – widespread nudity

7. A Whole New Ball Game

8. Poison Ivy – student strike, Harvard

9. 1, 2, 3 What Are We Fighting For – war protest

10. The Green Mind – Cuyahoga River burning, People”s Park in Berkeley

11. Stand! Gay rights, SDS Takeover by Weathermen

The Summer of Impossible Dreams

12. Walking in Space

13. The Mists of Camelot – Chappaquiddick

14. Shaking the Cage – Films about counterculture showing bad side

15. West Coast Killers – Manson

16. An Amazin” Summer – Mets

17. Heaven in a Disaster Area – Woodstock

Autumn Apocalypse

18. ”There are No Words” – Mets

19. Nixon”s War – Moratorium, Mai Lai

20. Days of Rage – Chicago Weathermen, Black Panthers

21. Cowboys and Indians – Indian Movement

22. The Hippie Apocalypse – Altamont, Zabriskie Point