The War Comes Home: The Political Crises of the 1960s

The War Comes Home: The Political Crises of the 1960s

The New Left: The Port Huron Statement, 1962

• “the goal of man and society should be human independence”

• “in a time of supposed prosperity, moral complacency and political manipulation, a new left cannot rely on aching stomachs to be the engine of social reform”

Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964-65

TV and Vietnam

Norman Morrison

The Summer of Love 1967

Martin Luther King, April 4, 1967

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only noncommunist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.

Tet offensive, January 1968

The “Fall” of Siagon, 30 April, 1975

Chicago: The Democratic Convention, 1968

The Weathermen, the Yippies, the RYM, and the “Days of

Rage”, Chicago, 1969

Trang Bang, Vietnam, 8 June 1972

My Lai Massacre, March 1968

Kent State University, May 4, 1970