Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Back to the Future, 1965

That was the year when...

• Malcolm X assassinated during a speech in New York
• Winston Churchill dies, aged 90
• Americans planes drop Napalm on Vietnam as the conflict turns into war
• A newly electric Bob Dylan was booed off stage at the Newport Folk Festival
• Race Riots in Watts (LA) last five days and leave 30 dead and 2,200 arrested

About 1965
1965 saw the passing of comedy great Stan Laurel and America joining a war that was to cause the biggest loss of life their country had ever witnessed.

You Have been Watching...
• The Worker
• The Danny Kaye Show
• The Munsters
• Milligan's Wake

At the Cinema
• The Sound of Music (Best Film Oscar)
• Lord Jim
• The Ipcress File
• Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

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