1961 - Bell Air Fires (Los Angeles) 1962 - Dodger Stadium opens - Pat Brown defeats Nixon in governor's race - Construction of the I-405 freeway 1963 - "Onion Field" Kidnappings & Killings (Hollywood - Bakersfield) - 1964 - Free Speech movement @ UC Berkeley 1965 - Watts Riots (Los Angeles 1966 - Sunset Strip Curfew riots 1967 - Monterey Pop Festival (Monterey) - Summer of Love (San Francisco) 1968 - Black Panther Party Founded (Oakland) - Robert F. Kennedy shot @ the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles 1969 - Tate-Labianca Murders - Altamont -1970 - Clampitt and Laguna wildfires - Manson Trial begins 1970-71 - Zodiac Killer messages San Francisco Chronicle - Worst 2-year drought in California history 1971 - San Fernando earthquake 1974 - Patty Hearst kidnapped 1975 - Fall of Saigon 1976-77 - Another severe drought 1977-78 - Hillside Strangler 1978 - killing of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk (San Francisco)
Conspiracy (definition) = a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. .. Imagine being born in October of 1962 - when the world almost blew up... You would not understand in real time what was happening, how the world was on edge because of some "cold" (?) war that was going on or the prior Bay of Pigs invasion or all the CIA "intrigue" tied up with that... At such a young age you'd be happily oblivious to the quiet commotions of the postcolonial chessboard - yet that was the marker for your entry into the America of the 1960s. It sounds crazy to say now - but everything actually DID feel very normal back then - at least from your suburban coordinates. An overdetermined universe as some would have it? The culmination of a bunch of wheels set in motion during the 1950s - a decade that had an important hold over so many, including your parents and older siblings - a time-frame that has forever eluded your grasp except in the form of old photog...
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