Podcasts religion Your Weekend Show "The Summer of 1969" A Young Man's View

"The Summer of 1969" A Young Man's View

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 2:36 p.m.

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The year (and summer) of 1969, through the eyes of a young high school boy, that\\u2019s the topic of this weekend\\u2019s program. In the summer of 1969, your host was already a high school student. In the summer of 1969, we had seen the moon landing. In the summer of 1969, the Woodstock Festival was held in Upstate New York. Earlier, in January of 1969, Richard Nixon had been inaugurated the 37th President of the United States, on a campaign promise of the "Vietnamization" of the ongoing Vietnam war Southeast Asia. Many young men wondered if they would be drafted, and what the future would look like. 

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1969 was also the year Children\'s Television Workshop introduced Sesame Street, and the Federal Communications Commission bans all cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States.

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In the summer of 1969, Bob had completed his first year of High School. Like many young people of that time, he wondered what his place would be in this ever-changing world. On this weekend\\u2019s show, we begin a series on the world, just a half-century ago, and how the events of that time still influences us today.

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